Advanced Floating Text

Floating text, holograms, live leaderboards and clickable signs for Minecraft Bedrock Edition, all made and edited in game with a live preview. It's drawn with Minecraft's own text rendering, so there are no entities: nothing to /kill, nothing that freezes in an unloaded chunk, and nothing running for texts nobody is near.

Getting Started

Turn on Advanced Floating Text in your world's Behavior Packs (the resource pack comes with it)
Type /mygen:floatingtext
Choose Create a text here and pick a template
Edit it: every change shows on the real text as you make it

Or type /mygen:floatingtext "&6Hello!" to put a text in front of you straight away.

Operators can edit, and so can anyone with the floatingtext:editor tag (/tag <player> add floatingtext:editor). The Floating Text Wand (from the menu, or the creative inventory under Equipment) edits the text you're looking at.

Features

Colours: & or § codes, every Bedrock colour including the material colours, &#rrggbb hex colours, <gradient:#ff0000:#0000ff>text</gradient> and <rainbow>text</rainbow>
Look: size, background (the game's, none, dark, black, light or eight colours), face the player or a fixed direction and tilt, readable from behind, hidden behind blocks, view distance
Motion: bob, spin, swing, pulse, bob and spin, at any speed
Text effects: rainbow, shimmer, typewriter, blink, glitch
Pages: up to 12 that turn by themselves
Particles: sparkles, glow, embers, snow, hearts, music notes, enchanting glyphs, orbit ring, fireflies, bubbles and shooting stars, in any colour and amount
Click actions: punch a text to turn its page, get a message, run a command, hear a sound or teleport
Placeholders that update live, some different for every player (below)
Leaderboards from any scoreboard, with offline players' names remembered
Who sees it: everyone, players with or without a tag, or editors only
Groups that switch on and off together
Recently deleted: bring back any of the last 10 deleted texts
Search every text in the world by name, group or contents
Script events for command blocks and other add-ons
World settings for operators: load range, placeholder update rate, motion smoothness, particles and clicks on or off, editor tag, clock offset

Placeholders

Placeholder	Shows
`{online}` `{players}`	Players online, and their names
`{time}` `{time12}` `{day}` `{moon}` `{weather}`	Game time, day, moon phase, weather
`{clock}` `{date}`	Real time and date (UTC plus the offset in World settings)
`{countdown:2026-12-25 18:00:Now!}`	Time left until then, then the text after it
`{tps}` `{uptime}`	Server ticks per second, time since start
`{lb:objective:10}`	Leaderboard lines. Add `:asc` for lowest first, `:online` for online players only, `:all` to keep `#fake` entries
`{top:objective:1}` `{topname:objective:1}` `{topscore:objective:1}`	A place on the leaderboard
`{score:objective:Name}` `{total:objective}` `{count:objective}`	A participant's score, the total, how many
`{var:name}`	A value set with `/scriptevent floatingtext:var name\	value`

Different for every player (each nearby player gets their own copy of the text):

Placeholder	Shows
`{player}`	Their name
`{score:objective}` `{rank:objective}`	Their score and place
`{health}` `{level}` `{gamemode}`	Their health, XP level, game mode
`{dimension}` `{biome}` `{x}` `{y}` `{z}`	Where they are
`{distance}`	How far they are from the text
`{tag:rank:Member}`	The rest of their tag starting `rank:` (Member if none)

Number formats go on the end: {score:money|compact} (1.2k), |commas (1,234), |time (seconds as 1h 2m), |clock (seconds as 1:02:03), |ticks (ticks as 1h 2m), |upper, |lower.

Script Events

Texts are found by name or id.

/scriptevent floatingtext:text <name>|<text>      \n for a new line, || for a new page
/scriptevent floatingtext:show <name>
/scriptevent floatingtext:hide <name>
/scriptevent floatingtext:page <name>|<page number>
/scriptevent floatingtext:group <group>|on (or off)
/scriptevent floatingtext:var <name>|<value>
/scriptevent floatingtext:create <name>|<text>    where the command runs

Good to Know

With Vibrant Visuals on, the game draws floating text through walls even when it's set to hide behind blocks (MCPE-243723)
Hex colours and gradients use the nearest of Bedrock's colours
The game limits how many texts can be on screen at once across the world; texts nobody is near don't count

Requirements

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.26.50 or later
No experimental toggles

Credits

Created by Rob 'myGen' Hall
www.myGen.co.uk

Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0