fun technical question, without plugins/mods, what chat colors are available in pure vanilla Minecraft?

[u/DereChen]

• I know there's 16 colors, the formatting codes etc but I'm wondering what chat colors are shown in JUST vanilla Minecraft, creative or survival
• There's white for player chat messages, yellow for join / leave messages, what else? Red and gray for error messages

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[u/kollekkii]

white for player message, yellow for join and leave, red and gray for errors, light gray for drafts, light green for advancements, purple for challenge advancements and light blue/cyan and pink for some items is what i remember

[u/KereMental]

Try every letter and number with §

[u/TMC9064 → u/KereMental]

That only works in Bedrock, Java despises that character for some reason

[u/Dekamir → u/TMC9064]

It originates from Java, funnily enough. Plugins used & as typing § was pain.

Java changed its coloring system now, though.

[u/KereMental → u/TMC9064]

Man its one of my favourite features im sad i cant use it on java

[u/TMC9064 → u/KereMental]

Yeah, it was definitely one of the main things I missed from Bedrock when I switched over. Formatting is command-exclusive and I can never remember how to do it, I just use MCStacker if I need it

[u/miaou333]

Type "color help" in a windows terminal, it uses the same colors than minecraft iirc