Chat

Chat

Voxmaxa has three kinds of chat. Two of them are curated — you send a fixed phrase chosen from a list, never free text — which is what lets them work across languages: every player sees the phrase in their own language, with nothing to type, mistype, or misuse.

Hotkey chat

Press a single key to send a short, fixed phrase as a speech bubble above your character — the fastest way to communicate in the middle of the action, with no typing. These are the default keys; every one can be rebound in the Controls settings.

Responses:

• Y Yes
• N No
• H Hello
• ; Goodbye
• . Stop

Intentions:

• B Let’s build
• O Let’s fight
• , Let’s explore
• M Let’s trade
• U Follow me

Directions:

• J Go left
• L Go right
• I Go up
• K Go down

Menu chat

Press T to open the chat wheel: a radial menu of the same curated phrases, organized into categories — greetings, I need…, I have…, Let’s…, Go…, and More. Aim with the mouse and click a wedge to send it (or to open a category); right-click steps back, and pressing T again closes the wheel. Menu chat reaches a much larger vocabulary than the single-key bindings while keeping the cross-language, no-typing benefits of curated chat.

Sanitized chat

The third kind is sanitized chat — typed, free-text messages. Press Enter to focus the chat box, type your message, and press Enter again to send. Because it carries free text rather than a fixed phrase, it behaves differently from the curated kinds:

• It is available on some websites, but not all. Sanitized chat may be unavailable even where hotkey and menu chat still work.
• It can be turned off in Settings. If you disable chat, you will neither send nor receive sanitized chat messages. (Curated speech bubbles are unaffected.)
• It is subject to automated moderation. Messages pass through automated filtering that blocks disallowed content before it reaches other players.
• It is subject to community moderation. Players can report messages, and moderators may act on those reports and mute or ban offenders.

Because sanitized chat can carry personal details, never share personal information in it. The other two kinds of chat send only fixed phrases, so there is nothing private to leak.