Overview

Most text that is handled by Crux or a Crux plugin addon will be handled with Crux's String or Text Component formatter.

Text Components are first analyzed by Crux's String handler and then processed with MiniMessage.

What is a Text Component?

Minecraft uses text components to render text in certain areas.

For example, an item's name is composed of a text component and its lore is made from a list of text components.

They're useful for displaying text with coloring and styles, like making a piece of text bold or italic.

What does the String Handler do?

Crux's string handler processes custom placeholders within a given text.

For example, if you have the text: <player_name> and input it in the string handler with the proper context, it may return something like: killercreepr or some other player's name.

There are global placeholders can be used despite not having any explicit context. See Global Placeholders.

It also can process equations. See Text Equations.