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# PlayerChatEvent

Documentation for the PlayerChatEvent event in the Irminsul game server API

PlayerChatEvent is a **cancellabe** event fired when a player sends a chat message.

If the sent message is a chat command (a message sent to the server account), this event is fired prior to [PlayerSendCommandEvent](/irminsul/api/api-references/game-events/playersendcommandevent.md), which is in turn fired prior to [PlayerExecuteCommandEvent](/irminsul/api/api-references/game-events/playerexecutecommandevent.md).

## Fields

### cancelled

*boolean, inherited*

Whether this event has been cancelled

### sender

final *`io.irminsul.common.game.player.Player`*

The player sending the message. Guaranteed non-null.

### recipient

final int

The UID of the message recipient

### text

String

The text of the message. This will be empty if the player sent an emote instead. Guaranteed non-null.

### emote

int

The emote attached with the message. This will be zero if a text message was sent instead.