Making your own custom emojis

Emojis are one of the core parts of social. They are used everywhere: in the chat, books, signs, anvils... Server owners who wish to add their own emojis can do so very easily by customizing the emojis module in settings.

Let's have a look at this example:

  emojis:
  ...
  - name: crossed_swords
    aliases: []
    unicodeCharacter: \u2694\uFE0F

• name: Name of this emoji that will also be used as an identifier. Must be unique.

• aliases: Aliases of this emoji.

• unicodeCharacter: Unicode character (or characters) that form this emoji.

This adds the crossed swords emoji (⚔️), which can be used with :crossed_swords:

Getting a unicode character

We recommend using the Emojipedia website since it contains every emoji and it's updated frequently. It also provides the technical information we need.

For this example we'll look at the crossed swords entry:

The technical information tab contains the information we need:

In this case, the unicode character would be \u2694\uFE0F.

Using raw emojis

Raw emojis are emojis that don't add any formatting. This means that emoji descriptions will not be shown, making them a good alternative to normal emojis for server-related messages.

Using raw emojis is as easy as replacing :emoji_name: with :raw_emoji_name:. For example, :crossing_swords: would be :raw_crossing_swords:. It's worth noting that raw emojis cannot directly be used by players.