Velocitab provides a plugin message API.

API Requests from Backend Plugins

1 Changing player's username in the TAB List

To change a player's username in the tablist, you can send a plugin message with the channel velocitab:update_custom_name and as data customName. Remember to replace customName with the desired name.

player.sendPluginMessage(plugin, "velocitab:update_custom_name", "Steve".getBytes());

2 Update team color

To change a player's team color in the TAB List, you can send a plugin message with the channel velocitab:update_team_color and as data teamColor. You can only use legacy color codes, for example a for green, b for aqua, etc. This option overrides the glow effect if set

player.sendPluginMessage(plugin, "velocitab:update_team_color", "a".getBytes());