How to Use Web-to-Game Chat on Dynmap

Dynmap includes communication components that allow players in-game and spectators on the web to chat with each other in real time.

Viewing In-Game Chat in the Browser

When players talk in the Minecraft server, their conversations are mirrored directly onto the web interface through Dynmap's chat components:

• Chat Balloons: Messages can appear as floating speech balloons positioned directly over a player's face marker on the map.
• Chatbox: Messages are collected into an on-screen chatbox component for easy reading as conversations progress.

Sending Messages from the Web Map

Spectators viewing the map from a browser can also talk back to players inside the Minecraft server:

1. Open the Dynmap web interface in your browser.

2. Locate the chat input box provided by Dynmap's web-to-game chat component.

3. Type your message and submit it. The text transmits across the connection and displays in the in-game chat log for connected players.

If your server uses specialized chat managers such as HeroChat (via Dynmap-HeroChat) or connects to IRC (via Dynmap2CraftIRC3), chat messages route seamlessly through those add-on integrations.