Languages

Ember Menus ships with 64 translated strings in seven languages, and every player-facing message lives in a file you can edit.

Shipped translations

Code	Language
en	English (default)
de	German
es	Spanish
fr	French
pt_BR	Portuguese (Brazil)
ru	Russian
zh_CN	Chinese (Simplified)

Switching language

One line in config.yml:

language: de

Restart or /emenus reload. That is the whole process.

[EmberMenus] Language: de (64 of 64 strings translated)

Every bundled file is unpacked into plugins/EmberMenus/lang/ the first time the plugin starts, so you can open the folder and see exactly what shipped rather than guessing.

Editing the wording

The files are yours. Open lang/de.yml, change anything, reload.

trade:
  bought: "<#66bb6a>Bought <white>%amount%x <#66bb6a>for <white>%price%"

Two things to keep:

%placeholders% are replaced by the plugin. Keep them, but move them wherever your sentence needs them.

Formatting is MiniMessage, so you control colour and emphasis as well as words. That is deliberate: a German sentence emphasises a different clause than the English one, and hard-coding the colours would take that choice away from the translator.

Your edits survive updates

Only en.yml is refreshed when the plugin starts, so new message keys always appear. Every other file is left exactly as you left it.

Making a new translation

1. Copy lang/en.yml to lang/<code>.yml
2. Translate the values, leaving the keys alone
3. Set language: <code> in config.yml

You do not have to finish it. Fallback is per key, not per file:

[EmberMenus] Language: pl (47 of 64 strings translated, the rest fall back to English)

That is a perfectly usable server. Most plugins would show blank text or raw keys for those 17 lines.

A note on quality

The non-English translations were written by the developer, not by native speakers. They are accurate enough to ship, but a native speaker will find phrasing they would do differently.

Spot something wrong? Send it to us on Discord and it goes into the next release with credit.