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Currently in Terasology if you hold the TAB key (subject to change - may move somewhere like to F2) in a multiplayer session you'll get a list of online players. It would be nice to allow players an option to enter an /afk command into the game console that would then add/remove an AFK label on their player entry in that overlay.

Definition of 'Done'

• PR submitted to the main Terasology repo containing the needed code
• Screenshot of a multiplayer game session where you can see a player entry in the overlay show an AFK label

Where to start

• The NUI tutorial if you need to learn more about the UI
• Various wiki pages like the one explaining the basics of networking as you'll need to attach a new field to the player entity (one of them - there are 2-3 distinct player related entities/concepts)
• Look at examples of similar functionality like the MOTD - something where a message is shared with all connected players
• The OnlinePlayersOverlay class