Chroma Names

Calls something that is on Kiln's roadmap. Parts of it may already run.

Evidence

Ran on Kiln's test stand (2026-11-04): Chromanames did not start: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/minecraft/network/protocol/common/custom/CustomPacketPayload; ChromanamesClient did not start: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/minecraft/network/chat/Style.

What it needs from Kiln

Mixin
com.mojang.authlib.GameProfile
com.mojang.blaze3d.platform.NativeImage
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.command.v2.ClientCommandRegistrationCallback
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.command.v2.ClientCommands
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.command.v2.FabricClientCommandSource
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.message.v1.ClientReceiveMessageEvents
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.message.v1.ClientReceiveMessageEvents.AllowChat
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.networking.v1.ClientPlayConnectionEvents
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.networking.v1.ClientPlayConnectionEvents.Join
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.networking.v1.ClientPlayNetworking
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.networking.v1.ClientPlayNetworking.Context
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.networking.v1.ClientPlayNetworking.PlayPayloadHandler
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.networking.v1.PayloadTypeRegistry
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.networking.v1.ServerPlayConnectionEvents
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.networking.v1.ServerPlayConnectionEvents.Join
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.networking.v1.ServerPlayNetworking
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.networking.v1.ServerPlayNetworking.Context
net.fabricmc.fabric.api.networking.v1.ServerPlayNetworking.PlayPayloadHandler
net.minecraft.client.User
net.minecraft.client.gui.components.EditBox
net.minecraft.client.input.CharacterEvent
net.minecraft.client.input.KeyEvent
net.minecraft.client.input.MouseButtonEvent
net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderPipelines
net.minecraft.client.renderer.texture.DynamicTexture
net.minecraft.client.renderer.texture.TextureManager
net.minecraft.network.RegistryFriendlyByteBuf
net.minecraft.network.chat.ChatType
net.minecraft.network.chat.ChatType.Bound
net.minecraft.network.chat.Style
net.minecraft.network.chat.TextColor
net.minecraft.network.codec.StreamCodec
net.minecraft.network.protocol.common.custom.CustomPacketPayload
net.minecraft.network.protocol.common.custom.CustomPacketPayload.Type
net.minecraft.network.protocol.common.custom.CustomPacketPayload.TypeAndCodec
net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer
net.minecraft.server.network.ServerGamePacketListenerImpl
net.minecraft.server.players.PlayerList
net.minecraft.util.ARGB
net.minecraft.util.Mth
and 18 more

On the roadmap: Minecraft's libraries and client API (0.2), Code next to data (0.3), Mixin (0.5)

In the author's words

Adds animated colored effects to the chat

Scan

Scanned on 4 November 2026 against Kiln 0.2.0, file chromanames-26.3-1.0.3.jar. The scan reads the mod's classes; it does not run them.

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