Minecraft Text Formatter

The tool ingests a string containing Minecraft color codes and converts it to a structured JSON text component representation. It preserves the textual order and applies color and style transitions as indicated by the codes. It supports both ampersand-coded and section-sign inputs, enabling teams to migrate content from older maps or plugins without rewriting strings by hand. The output is suitable for use in signs, books, and chat messages within modern Minecraft clients, ensuring consistent rendering across versions and servers.
Conceptual operation: the converter tokenizes the input, maintains a current style state (color, bold, italic, underline, strike), and emits small JSON objects whenever the active style changes or the color is updated. Each object carries a text segment and its styling, producing a flat array that can be consumed by game clients or tooling. The implementation favors a deterministic, minimal JSON structure while preserving human readability when pretty-printed.
Audience and value: map creators, server administrators, bot developers, and content teams benefit from speed, consistency, and version-agnostic text. A key differentiator is dual-format input support, reducing friction when migrating legacy strings. The tool also performs validation to catch obviously malformed sequences, returning a best-effort result rather than failing silently.
Core features and use cases: a parsing engine; color and style state tracking; conversion rules from legacy codes to JSON fields; optional pretty-print formatting; and ready-to-use JSON text for books, signs, and chat messages. Use cases include converting adventure-map signs, migrating in-map texts, and scripting batch conversions for content pipelines.