Hi. I recently created a minecraft bukkit server and downloaded PowerRanks as one of the plugins. I created some custom ranks (two had chat colors; I think this is the problem) and when I tried giving myself the ranks (in-game and in the players file) the only thing that happened was the triangle brackets were removed from my username in the chat. When I tried adding chat colors to Admin and Owner rank (I was just trying everything at this point) and I ran the server, this happened. [18:52:19 WARN]: at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadFromString(YamlConfiguration.java:55) [18:52:19 WARN]: at org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration.load(FileConfiguration.java:162) [18:52:19 WARN]: at org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration.load(FileConfiguration.java:130) [18:52:19 WARN]: at me.winspeednl.PowerRanks.Data.Users.setGroup(Users.java:34) [18:52:19 WARN]: at me.winspeednl.PowerRanks.Commands.Cmd.onCommand(Cmd.java:78) [18:52:19 WARN]: at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:44) [18:52:19 WARN]: at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:140) [18:52:19 WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_12_R1.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:631) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.PlayerConnection.handleCommand(PlayerConnection.java:1327) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:1187) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.PacketPlayInChat.a(SourceFile:37) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.PacketPlayInChat.a(SourceFile:9) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.PlayerConnectionUtils$1.run(SourceFile:13) [18:52:19 WARN]: at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [18:52:19 WARN]: at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.SystemUtils.a(SourceFile:46) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.MinecraftServer.D(MinecraftServer.java:696) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.DedicatedServer.D(DedicatedServer.java:371) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.MinecraftServer.C(MinecraftServer.java:651) [18:52:19 WARN]: at net.minecraft.server.v1_12_R1.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:555) [18:52:19 WARN]: at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [18:52:19 WARN]: Caused by: mapping values are not allowed here in 'string', line 25, column 30: chatColor: c nameColor: RESET ^ The server still worked fine, nothing changed with the ranks though. I would really like to have some custom ranks on my server (chat colors would be awesome too) so if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this (or if I should just ditch PowerRanks ), please post them here. Thanks!