AMOTD - Advanced MOTD Plugin

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Introduction

AMOTD (Advanced MOTD) is a feature-rich Minecraft server MOTD customization plugin that supports both traditional color codes and MiniMessage formatting. With AMOTD, you can create server descriptions with gradient colors, ✨ effects, and advanced text formatting, customize player list displays, and set custom server icons.

Features

• Supports traditional color codes (&a, &b, etc.) and MiniMessage formats
• Gradient and ✨-colored text support
• Custom player count display
• Custom hover text for player lists
• Random switching between multiple server icons
• Access to preset styles from online style libraries

Version

• Supported Minecraft Versions: 1.8.x - 1.21.x
• Current Plugin Version: 1.1.0

Server Compatibility

• Bukkit/Spigot/Paper - Full support, recommend Paper for optimal MiniMessage support
• Folia - Full support with thread-safe implementation, automatically detects and adapts to Folia's regionalized schedulers
• Velocity - Full feature compatibility

Commands & Permissions

Commands:

• /amotd reload - Reload configurations and icons
• /amotd get <StyleCode> - Fetch preset MOTD styles from online style library

Permissions:

• amotd.command.reload - Permission to use reload command
• amotd.command.get - Permission to use get command for style fetching

Online MOTD Editor

For convenient MOTD creation, we provide an online editing tool:

🔗 MOTD Online Editor

With this tool you can:

• Preview and edit MOTD effects
• Apply gradient colors and special formats
• Generate style codes for direct server application
• Design professional-level MOTD without memorizing complex syntax

Simply use /amotd get <StyleCode> in-game to apply your designed style to the server after creation!

Config

# AMOTD Plugin Configuration File

# ==============================
# Version Compatibility Notes
# ==============================
# Legacy format: Supported by all Minecraft servers
# MiniMessage format: Requires Paper 1.16.5+ server
# Gradient color support: Requires Paper 1.16.5+ server
# RGB color support: Requires Paper 1.16.5+ server
# ==============================

# Language setting (en, zh_cn)
language: "en"

# Message format type: legacy or minimessage
# legacy: Uses traditional & color codes
# minimessage: Uses MiniMessage format (requires Paper 1.16.5+ server)
message_format: "legacy"

# Legacy format MOTD (using & color codes)
legacy:
  line1: "&aWelcome to &bmy &cMinecraft &dserver!"
  line2: "&eThis message is generated by &6AMOTD &7plugin &8"

# MiniMessage format MOTD (requires Paper 1.16.5+ server)
#
# Recommended online editor: https://motd.mcobs.cn/
# After using, you can generate a style code and apply it with /amotd get <style code>
#
# Supported tag examples:
# <color:red>Red text</color>
# <gradient:#FF0000:#0000FF>Red-Blue gradient</gradient>
# <✨>✨ text</✨>
# <bold>Bold</bold>, <italic>Italic</italic>, <underlined>Underlined</underlined>
minimessage:
  line1: "<gradient:#FF5555:#55FF55>Welcome to my Minecraft server!</gradient>"
  line2: "<gradient:#5555FF:#FF55FF>This message is generated by AMOTD plugin</gradient>"

# Whether to enable server icon display
enable_server_icon: true

# Player count display settings
player_count:
  # Whether to enable player count modification
  enabled: false
  # Maximum player count to display
  max_players: 100
  # Whether to apply this maximum player limit (true: Actually limit the number of players, false: Only display the modified count)
  apply_limit: false

# Player list hover text settings
hover_player_list:
  # Whether to display player list hover text (when hovering over "xx/xx" player count in server list)
  enabled: true
  # Text to display when no players are online (only effective on Paper servers)
  empty_message: "No players online at the moment" 

# Whether to enable debug mode
debug: false