AMOTD

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, rainbow 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 rainbow-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 ```txt

AMOTD Plugin Configuration File

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Version Compatibility Notes

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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

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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)

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Recommended online editor: https://motd.mcobs.cn/

After using, you can generate a style code and apply it with /amotd get <style code>

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Supported tag examples:

<color:red>Red text</color>

<gradient:#FF0000:#0000FF>Red-Blue gradient</gradient>

<rainbow>Rainbow text</rainbow>

<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 ```