CrazyPhone

A real smartphone your character carries around. Text your friends, start group chats, take photos and selfies, hang them on your walls, and call each other with Simple Voice Chat. Everything happens on the phone in your hand, and the people around you see what's on its screen.

Forge 1.20.1 · NeoForge 1.21.1, 1.21.10, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3 · Fabric 1.21.1, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3

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✨ Features

💬 Messaging and group chats

Register a phone number, add contacts and favorites, and create groups with their own name, icon and admins. Messages arrive in real time, with read badges, timestamps, multi-line messages (Shift+Enter) and photos sent straight from your gallery. Pixel-art emoji everywhere: paste a real emoji, type a :shortcode: or a classic :) and it converts as you type. Get pulled away mid-sentence and your draft is still there when you come back.

📷 A native camera, no other mod needed

Take a photo from a conversation, from the home screen, or just by punching with the phone in hand. Zoom with the mouse wheel. It works with shaders, so what you see is what you get.

🤳 Selfie mode

Press F5 while taking a photo: the phone goes on a selfie stick you aim with the mouse, and your arm and head follow the shot, for you and for everyone watching.

🖼️ My Photos, photo items and frames

My Photos keeps every photo your phone took in one grid. Send one to a conversation, delete it, or take it out as a real photo item:

• right-click it to see it full size, or open the photo editor to crop, straighten, resize and tweak hue, contrast and brightness,
• sneak to hold it up for everyone around (one in each hand if you like), lit by the real world light,
• hang it on a wall, floor or ceiling, then right-click it to resize it block by block, rotate it or make it glow,
• or put it in a vanilla item frame (invisible and glow frames work too), where it shows as a pixel-art version,
• dye its border in any color, like leather armor.

Animated GIFs work everywhere: import one from your PC or from a link and it plays in chats, in My Photos, on photo items and in frames.

📞 Voice calls and voice messages

Optional, needs Simple Voice Chat on the server and the clients.

1:1 and group calls (as many friends as you want) with a ringtone, Incoming Call, Calling and In Call screens, plus recorded voice messages with a waveform and 0.5x / 1x / 2x playback. Drop the phone and the call hangs up; stay alone in a call and it ends.

📺 A live screen

The phone in your hand shows what you're doing (lock screen with the time, apps, calls, ringing), and other players see it too. Server switch: /crazyphone feature live_screen, client switches: /phonescreen own|others.

🔍 Your phone, your size

The phone is drawn at your GUI scale by default, so JEI, REI and EMI never cover it. Tap the magnifier on the home screen for a bigger phone (about 70% of the window height).

And also

• 🔐 Lock screen and PIN, and a craftable phone (or /crazyphone give <number>).
• 🗳️ Mayor election (optional): candidates with campaign posters, in-app voting, admin commands.
• ✨ Soulbound enchantment (1.20.5 and up): found only in Ancient Cities, keeps your phone through death.
• ⚙️ Per-feature toggles and permissions: calls, voice messages, images and the election can each be switched off or restricted to some players.
• 🌍 English and French included, another language is one file to translate.
• 🧱 Built for servers: conversations are paged and capped, and only the players in a conversation get its new messages.

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📦 Requirements

Fabric	Fabric API
Forge / NeoForge	nothing else
Optional	Simple Voice Chat for calls and voice messages

Install it on the server and on every client.

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🧭 Where it comes from

CrazyPhone is the smartphone of my CrazyThings mod, rewritten from scratch as its own mod. Same look and same idea, but the storage was rebuilt to fix an old bug that could crash a server (every message of every conversation was kept forever and sent to every player at login). It has grown a lot since: native camera, selfies, photo frames, live screen, calls.

🔗 Links

• Source code and full documentation
• Wiki: setup, config, commands, permissions
• Report a bug or ask for a feature, or leave a comment here: every request gets an answer.

📄 License

All Rights Reserved. Playing, servers, videos and streams: go ahead, no need to ask. Modpacks: allowed, as long as the mod is downloaded from CurseForge or Modrinth and CrazyPhone is credited. Modified versions, forks, re-uploads: ask me first.

Calls and voice messages are built on Simple Voice Chat by henkelmax. Pixel emoji from Pixel Twemoji 9x by AmberW, based on Twemoji (CC-BY 4.0).