diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/api/connection/ProxiedPlayer.java b/api/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/api/connection/ProxiedPlayer.java
index 4304b1e9..d4438e51 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/api/connection/ProxiedPlayer.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/api/connection/ProxiedPlayer.java
@@ -172,6 +172,20 @@ public interface ProxiedPlayer extends Connection, CommandSender
      */
     void sendTitle(Title title);
 
+    /**
+     * Gets whether this player is using a FML client.
+     * <p>
+     * This method is only reliable if BungeeCord links Minecraft 1.8 servers 
+     * together, as Bungee can pick up whether a user is a Forge user with the 
+     * initial handshake. If this is used for a 1.7 network, this might return
+     * <code>false</code> even if the user is a FML user, as Bungee can only
+     * determine this information if a handshake successfully completes.
+     * </p>
+     * @return <code>true</code> if it is known that the user is using a FML 
+     *         client, <code>false</code> otherwise.
+     */
+    boolean isForgeUser();
+
     /**
      * Gets this player's Forge Mod List, if the player has sent this
      * information during the lifetime of their connection to Bungee. There is
@@ -181,7 +195,8 @@ public interface ProxiedPlayer extends Connection, CommandSender
      * <p>
      * Consumers of this API should be aware that an empty mod list does
      * <em>not</em> indicate that a user is not a Forge user, and so should not
-     * use this API to check for this - there is no way to tell this reliably.
+     * use this API to check for this. See the {@link #isForgeUser() 
+     * isForgeUser} method instead.
      * </p>
      * <p>
      * Calling this when handling a
@@ -189,7 +204,7 @@ public interface ProxiedPlayer extends Connection, CommandSender
      * place to do so as this event occurs after a FML handshake has completed,
      * if any has occurred.
      * </p>
-     *
+     * 
      * @return A {@link Map} of mods, where the key is the name of the mod, and
      * the value is the version. Returns an empty list if the FML handshake has
      * not occurred for this {@link ProxiedPlayer} yet.
diff --git a/proxy/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/UserConnection.java b/proxy/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/UserConnection.java
index 936e6845..4a85f4eb 100644
--- a/proxy/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/UserConnection.java
+++ b/proxy/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/UserConnection.java
@@ -519,6 +519,12 @@ public final class UserConnection implements ProxiedPlayer
         return ( locale == null && settings != null ) ? locale = Locale.forLanguageTag( settings.getLocale().replaceAll( "_", "-" ) ) : locale;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public boolean isForgeUser() 
+    {
+        return forgeClientHandler.isForgeUser();
+    }
+
     @Override
     public Map<String, String> getModList()
     {