Simple Voice Chat on your Minecraft server

With this guide, your Minecraft Java server gets distance-based voice chat: players who stand close together can hear each other, and players who are far apart can't. At AeonHost, you set up [Simple Voice Chat](https://modrinth.com/plugin/simple-voice-chat) with one click. The panel itself reserves the UDP port and enters it in the configuration.

Updated 14 October 2026

What you need

A Minecraft Java server at AeonHost with Paper, Purpur, Folia, Fabric, Forge or NeoForge. Simple Voice Chat does not run on plain Vanilla.
The Simple Voice Chat mod in each player's own game – matching their loader (Fabric, Forge, NeoForge or Quilt) and the server's Minecraft version.
A headset or microphone.

1. Check the server software

In the customer area, on your server's page, click Open in Panel and select Version on the left. There you can see which software is running. If the server runs on Vanilla, switch to Paper or Fabric – your worlds are kept.

Version page in the panel with the server software selection — You change the software and Minecraft version under “Version”.

More on switching: Switching the Minecraft server version.

2. Set up voice chat with one click

In the panel, open the Crossplay & Voice menu.
On the Simple Voice Chat card, click Voice Chat einrichten (set up voice chat).
Restart the server – the panel offers Jetzt neu starten (restart now) for this.

Crossplay & Voice in the panel with the Geyser and Simple Voice Chat cards — Geyser for Bedrock players and Simple Voice Chat – both with one click.

What happens:

AeonHost downloads the matching version of Simple Voice Chat from Modrinth – as a plugin for Paper, Purpur and Folia, or as a mod for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.
One of your ports is reserved as the Voice-Port (UDP) and entered in the configuration. You don't need to set anything by hand.

The card then shows Aktiv (active) with the voice port. Under Deine Ports (your ports), you can see which port is reserved for what.

Simple Voice Chat is active, with voice port — Active – with its own UDP port, entered automatically.

After a change of Minecraft version or software, click Neu einrichten / aktualisieren (set up again / update). To take Voice Chat out again and free up the port, use Entfernen (remove).

3. Players set up the client

Each player installs Simple Voice Chat in their own Minecraft – the easiest way is via a launcher with Modrinth support, or manually with Fabric or NeoForge.
On first join, a short setup wizard guides you through microphone, speakers and activation: Voice Activation or Push-to-Talk.
At any time, V opens the voice chat menu.

The default keys according to the official wiki:

Key	Function
V	Open voice chat menu
M	Mute microphone (with Voice Activation)
N	Turn voice chat off completely
H	Hide voice chat icons
G	Group chats – only up to Minecraft 1.21.5, no default key after that

Push-to-Talk has no default key; each player sets their own in the setup wizard.

4. Advanced settings

The settings are in voicechat-server.properties. You'll find the file in the panel under Files:

Paper, Purpur, Folia: plugins/voicechat/voicechat-server.properties
Fabric, Forge, NeoForge: config/voicechat/voicechat-server.properties

File manager in the panel — You edit the configuration directly in the browser under “Files”.

The most important values, according to the server configuration page:

Entry	Default	Meaning
`max_voice_distance`	`48`	Hearing range in blocks
`whisper_distance`	`24`	Range when whispering
`enable_groups`	`true`	Allow group chats (regardless of distance)
`allow_recording`	`true`	Players may record conversations
`force_voice_chat`	`false`	`true`: players without the mod are kicked
`port`	–	Voice port – set automatically by AeonHost, do not change

Leave port, bind_address and voice_host unchanged. Above all, never set port to -1 (share the game port) – according to the developer, this can crash the server. Restart the server after every change.

5. What about Bedrock players?

With Geyser on the same panel page, Bedrock players can join your Java server – see Java and Bedrock together. Simple Voice Chat is a Java mod, though: Bedrock players can't install it and don't hear the voice chat.

Common problems

Voice chat won't connect

Under Crossplay & Voice, check whether the card shows Aktiv, and restart the server. If you changed the software or version, click Neu einrichten / aktualisieren. If the value after port= in the configuration doesn't match the voice port under Deine Ports, set up voice chat again.

An online port checker reports the port as closed

Most port checkers test TCP. Simple Voice Chat uses UDP, so the result tells you little. Rely on Deine Ports in the panel instead.

I can't hear anyone

Does everyone have the mod in the matching version? Is your microphone muted (M) or voice chat turned off (N)? Are you standing closer than 48 blocks to each other? In the V menu, you can see whether you're connected.

Players are kicked when they join

If force_voice_chat is set to true, anyone without the mod is removed from the server. Set the value to false, or have your players install the mod.

The mod doesn't match the server version

Client and server need the same Minecraft version. Check it under Version and download the matching file for your game from Modrinth.