VC Admin - Simple Voice Chat Moderation Tool

VC Admin

Voice chat is where the things you actually need to moderate happen. Not in chat logs, not on signs — in a group someone locked with a password thirty seconds ago. VC Admin gives your staff a way in, and a way to deal with what they find.

It runs entirely on the server. Your players install nothing.

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Why it exists

Simple Voice Chat is excellent, and it does one thing deliberately: a password-protected group is private, full stop. There is no operator override, because for most servers that is the right default.

If you run a server with younger players, or one where you have promised your community that someone is watching, that default leaves you with nothing. You cannot check a report. You cannot mute someone who is shouting slurs at a twelve-year-old. You can only ban blind, after the fact, on someone else's word.

This mod fills that gap — and tries to do it without handing anyone a surveillance tool.

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What you can do

Everything lives under /vcadmin (short: /vca) and needs OP level 2.

See what is going on

• /vcadmin list — every active group, with its type, member count and lock state. Hover a locked group to read its password; click to copy it.
• /vcadmin info <group> — everything about one group, including who is in it.
• /vcadmin whois <player> — is their voice client connected, which group are they in, are they muted, and who muted them.

Get in

• /vcadmin join <group> — join any group, password or not.
• /vcadmin leave — leave again.
• /vcadmin move <player> <group> — put someone into a group.
• /vcadmin kick <player> — pull someone out of whichever group they are in.

Change a group without breaking it up

All of these apply to a live group. Nobody gets disconnected, and everyone's client updates immediately.

• /vcadmin group <group> type normal|open|isolated — normal: members hear only each other. open: members hear each other and nearby players. isolated: members hear only each other, and outsiders cannot hear them at all.
• /vcadmin group <group> password set <password> — lock it.
• /vcadmin group <group> password clear — make it public.
• /vcadmin group <group> rename <name>
• /vcadmin group <group> persistent true|false — whether it survives being empty.
• /vcadmin group <group> hidden true|false — whether it appears in the group browser.
• /vcadmin group <group> delete — empties it, then removes it.
• /vcadmin create <name> [type] [password] — make one yourself. Handy for a permanent staff channel.

Quiet things down

• /vcadmin mute <player> [reason] — silences them everywhere, group and proximity alike. Works on offline players, and they are told they were muted.
• /vcadmin unmute <player>
• /vcadmin mutes — every standing mute, with who set it, when, and why. Your next shift will thank you.
• /vcadmin group <group> mute — silence a whole group at once.
• /vcadmin lockdown true — silence everybody who is not exempt. For when an event needs to actually start.
• /vcadmin exempt <player> true — carve someone out of lockdown and group mutes.

Player mutes, exemptions and lockdown survive a restart. Group mutes deliberately do not — Simple Voice Chat hands a rebuilt group a fresh id, so a stored group mute would end up silencing the wrong people.

Watch without being seen

• /vcadmin vanish on — you disappear from every group's member list. You still hear everything; your microphone is switched off.
• /vcadmin vanish on speak — same, but you can still talk.
• /vcadmin vanish off — back to normal.
• /vcadmin vanish status — who on your team is currently hidden.

Plain vanish on mutes you on purpose. Hidden and audible means the group hears a voice it cannot place, which is a strange thing to do to people by accident.

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A word about trust

Earlier versions of this mod announced every admin join in chat and promised there was no silent monitoring. Vanish changes that, so here is the honest version:

• A normal /vcadmin join still announces itself to the group, exactly as before.
• Vanish is a separate, deliberate command. It is not the default and it is never automatic.
• Every join, mute, vanish, lockdown and group change is written to the server log with the name of the operator who did it. Whatever your staff does here, it leaves a trail.

What you tell your community is your call. Our suggestion: tell them the truth — that staff can enter any voice group, that it is normally announced, and that in a live incident it might not be. Players are far more forgiving of a rule they knew about than of one they discover.

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Installing it

1. Install Simple Voice Chat on your server.
2. Drop vcadmin into your server's mods/ folder.
3. Restart.

That is all. There is no config file to edit and nothing to install on the client — your players will not even know it is there until an admin uses it.

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Compatibility

Minecraft	Loader	Simple Voice Chat
1.21.1	NeoForge 21.1.x	2.5 and up
1.20.1	Forge 47.x	2.5 and up

Server-side only. Tested against Simple Voice Chat 2.6.22 on both.

The old /vclist, /vcjoin and /vcleave commands still work — if you are already running VC Admin, nothing you have set up breaks.