# Name Tag Name Tag lets players change the name and skin everyone else sees. Properly, too: death messages, advancement announcements, join and quit messages and the tab list all use the new name, so there's nothing left to give the game away. Nicks survive restarts, and on a network they follow players between servers. ## Try it Disguise yourself completely as someone else: ``` /nick @s as Notch ``` You now look like Notch and are called Notch. To go back: ``` /nick reset ``` ## What you can do **Change everything.** Name and skin together, so you're indistinguishable from the person you're imitating. **Change just one.** Keep your skin and take a different name, or keep your name and wear a different skin. **Use a custom skin.** Point it at a Mineskin URL and get any skin you like, not just one belonging to a real player. **Get a random one.** `/randomnick` picks a realistic username out of a pool of real player names, so it doesn't look generated. **Find out who someone really is.** `/realname` tells staff who's behind a nick. ## Where it shows up Everywhere it needs to. Death and advancement messages, join and quit messages, chat, the tab list, and commands that take a player name. If you run TAB, Name Tag updates it automatically whenever a nick changes. ## Across a network Point every backend server at the same MongoDB, MySQL or MariaDB and nicks follow players wherever they go. Works with BungeeCord, Velocity and Waterfall. See [[Name Tag/Server Owners/Proxy Setup]]. On a single server you can leave it storing nicks in a local file and not think about it. ## A word on UUID spoofing There's an option to change a player's UUID to match their nick as well. It makes a disguise airtight, but it's experimental, and anything keyed off UUIDs (economy plugins, homes, claims) may get confused. Leave it off unless you've tested it with the rest of your setup. ## Installing it 1. Download Name Tag from [lode.gg](https://lode.gg/plugin/nametag). 2. Drop the jar into `plugins/`. 3. Restart. ## What you need | | | |---|---| | Server | Paper 1.21 or newer, Folia works too | | Java | 21 or newer | ## Related Pages - [[Name Tag/Server Owners/Commands]], every command with examples - [[Name Tag/Server Owners/Configuration]], every setting explained - [[Name Tag/Server Owners/Proxy Setup]], sharing nicks across a network - [[Name Tag/Developers/Overview]], for plugin developers