How do you give people prefixes for their usernames?

How do you give people tags/prefixes on your Minecraft server? I have a server but I do not know how to make it say I am the owner in the chat.
Example: Owner Kieranpb7: <text>
Best Answer
Yes, this is possible in vanilla Minecraft but requires the use of a third-party program called NBTExplorer.
First, open the world and add a team for each prefix to be used (e.g. owner, donator, etc). The command is:
/scoreboard teams add [name] [displayname]
Or in your case: /scoreboard teams add owners Owner
Exit the world. Next, download NBTExplorer from here. Open it up.
Select your world within the .minecraft/saves
. Navigate to data > scoreboard.dat > data > Teams
Inside that, there should be several 7 entries
or 9 entries
. Each of these represents a team, open it up and look at the Name
and DisplayName
entries to tell which is which.
There should be other entries in this: one called Prefix
and another called Suffix
. Edit the prefix so it says [OWNER] §r
MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE SPACE AND COPY-PASTE THE §r! The [OWNER]
part can be anything you like though, but for visibility, I recommend [text]
so that it is easily told apart from the username. You can also add a suffix if you like which will be displayed after the username.
Press the save button at the top, and reload the world. Join the team with /scoreboard teams join owners [playername]
and test it out in chat!
I hope this helps!
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Answer 2
In 1.14, the process described by angussidney is a lot simpler. Use /scoreboard teams add [name] [displayname]
to make a team, and then use /team modify [name] [prefix|suffix] "prefix/suffix"
to add a prefix or suffix. The /team modify
command lets you change lots of other things besides prefixes and suffixes as well.
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