diff --git a/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/BaseComponent.kt b/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/BaseComponent.kt
index 6fcd759f4..13ed4790a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/BaseComponent.kt
+++ b/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/BaseComponent.kt
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ class BaseComponent : ChatComponent {
 
         json["text"]?.nullCast<String>()?.let {
             if (it.indexOf(ProtocolDefinition.TEXT_COMPONENT_FORMATTING_PREFIX) != -1) {
+                // TODO: That is wrong, clickEvent, hoverEvent is ignored
                 this += ChatComponent.of(it, translator, parent, restrictedMode)
                 parseExtra()
                 return
@@ -251,4 +252,21 @@ class BaseComponent : ChatComponent {
         }
         throw IllegalArgumentException("Pointer ot of bounds!")
     }
+
+    override fun trim(): ChatComponent? {
+        return when {
+            parts.isEmpty() -> null
+            parts.size == 1 -> parts.first().trim()
+            else -> {
+                val parts: MutableList<ChatComponent> = mutableListOf()
+                for (part in this.parts) {
+                    parts += part.trim() ?: continue
+                }
+                if (parts.isEmpty()) return null
+                if (parts.size == 1) parts.first()
+                if (this.parts.size == parts.size) return this
+                return BaseComponent(parts)
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/ChatComponent.kt b/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/ChatComponent.kt
index 954927f34..2202d2019 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/ChatComponent.kt
+++ b/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/ChatComponent.kt
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ interface ChatComponent {
 
     fun cut(length: Int)
 
+    fun trim(): ChatComponent?
+
 
     fun strikethrough(): ChatComponent
     fun obfuscate(): ChatComponent
@@ -103,13 +105,13 @@ interface ChatComponent {
             }
 
             when (raw) {
-                is Map<*, *> -> return BaseComponent(translator, parent, raw.unsafeCast(), restrictedMode)
+                is Map<*, *> -> return BaseComponent(translator, parent, raw.unsafeCast(), restrictedMode).trim() ?: EmptyComponent
                 is List<*> -> {
                     val component = BaseComponent()
                     for (part in raw) {
-                        component += of(part, translator, parent, restrictedMode = restrictedMode)
+                        component += of(part, translator, parent, restrictedMode = restrictedMode).trim() ?: continue
                     }
-                    return component
+                    return component.trim() ?: EmptyComponent
                 }
             }
             val string = raw.toString()
@@ -124,7 +126,7 @@ interface ChatComponent {
                     if (codePoint == '{'.code || codePoint == '['.code) {
                         try {
                             val read: Any = Jackson.MAPPER.readValue(string, Any::class.java)
-                            return of(read, translator, parent, ignoreJson = true, restrictedMode)
+                            return of(read, translator, parent, ignoreJson = true, restrictedMode).trim() ?: EmptyComponent
                         } catch (ignored: JacksonException) {
                             break
                         }
@@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ interface ChatComponent {
                 }
             }
 
-            return LegacyComponentReader.parse(parent, string, restrictedMode)
+            return LegacyComponentReader.parse(parent, string, restrictedMode).trim() ?: EmptyComponent
         }
 
         fun String.chat(): ChatComponent {
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/EmptyComponent.kt b/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/EmptyComponent.kt
index 56042a21d..eb0784241 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/EmptyComponent.kt
+++ b/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/EmptyComponent.kt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Minosoft
- * Copyright (C) 2020-2022 Moritz Zwerger and contributors
+ * Copyright (C) 2020-2023 Moritz Zwerger
  *
  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  *
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ object EmptyComponent : ChatComponent {
     override val length: Int get() = 0
 
     override fun cut(length: Int) = Unit
+    override fun trim(): ChatComponent? = null
 
     override fun strikethrough() = this
     override fun obfuscate() = this
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/TextComponent.kt b/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/TextComponent.kt
index b60f56f54..390ae3887 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/TextComponent.kt
+++ b/src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/TextComponent.kt
@@ -245,4 +245,9 @@ open class TextComponent(
         }
         return message == other.message && color == other.color && formatting == other.formatting && clickEvent == other.clickEvent && hoverEvent == other.hoverEvent
     }
+
+    override fun trim(): ChatComponent? {
+        if (message.isEmpty()) return null
+        return this
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/ChatComponentTest.kt b/src/test/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/ChatComponentTest.kt
index 02d8d65d3..44f5083aa 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/ChatComponentTest.kt
+++ b/src/test/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/data/text/ChatComponentTest.kt
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ import de.bixilon.kutil.url.URLUtil.toURL
 import de.bixilon.minosoft.data.text.ChatComponent.Companion.chat
 import de.bixilon.minosoft.data.text.events.click.OpenFileClickEvent
 import de.bixilon.minosoft.data.text.events.click.OpenURLClickEvent
+import de.bixilon.minosoft.data.text.events.click.SendMessageClickEvent
+import de.bixilon.minosoft.data.text.events.hover.TextHoverEvent
 import de.bixilon.minosoft.data.text.formatting.color.ChatColors
 import de.bixilon.minosoft.data.text.formatting.color.RGBColor.Companion.asColor
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
@@ -229,4 +231,23 @@ internal class ChatComponentTest {
         assertEquals("                Hypixel Network [1.8-1.19]\n   LUNAR MAPS COSMETICS | SKYBLOCK 0.17.3", component.message)
         assertEquals(expected, component)
     }
+
+    @Test
+    fun levelingReward() {
+        val string = """{"text":"§eClick here to view it!","strikethrough":false,"clickEvent":{"action":"run_command","value":"/rewards"},"hoverEvent":{"action":"show_text","value":{"text":"Click to open the §3Hypixel Leveling §emenu","color":"yellow","strikethrough":false}}}"""
+        val component = ChatComponent.of(string)
+
+        val expected = TextComponent("Click here to view it!")
+            .color(ChatColors.YELLOW)
+            .clickEvent(SendMessageClickEvent("/rewards"))
+            .hoverEvent(
+                TextHoverEvent(BaseComponent(
+                    TextComponent("Click to open the ").color(ChatColors.YELLOW),
+                    TextComponent("Hypixel Leveling ").color(ChatColors.DARK_AQUA),
+                    TextComponent("menu").color(ChatColors.YELLOW),
+                )))
+
+
+        assertEquals(expected, component)
+    }
 }