BannerMOTD

BannerMOTD - A server list MOTD plugin to make your server unique
Replace plain text with a full 264 × 16 px banner





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IMPORTANT:


this plugin only works on 1.21.9 - 1.21.11

older versions do not support heads in motd becuse the feature did not exist at that time

in newer versions heads in motd got removed because it was never intended feature but an bug ) - :






How it works

In Minecraft 1.21.9, a new text system feature called
object text components was introduced.

This allows you to embed player heads (with skin IDs) in chat, GUIs, and the MOTD. and the skin renders, which means we can fill the MOTD with player heads and assign them specific skins to form a complete image (banner).






The BannerMOTD generator onec manally ran takes a PNG file named
mymotd (264 × 16 px), splits it into 66 player head skins, uploads them to get hash, and generates a JSON file ready to be used by this plugin.

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Setup


1. Generate your motd.json from an image

you have 2 options:

1. use [my online converter](
https://mc-p9jje0k8oj.bunny.run/) to cenvert your png (264 x 16px) to usable json file



2. do i locally by [dowloading this script from github](
https://github.com/jirka086/BannerMOTD-generator) and following its readme




2. Install the plugin

1. Download the plugin from here and put it in your plugins folder.

2. (Re)start your server to generate the BannerMOTDplus folder.

3. Open the folder and place your motd.json inside. Adjust the plugin config if needed.

4. Restart the server.

Your MOTD should now display as the banner you created.

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FOLIA SUPPORT, DOWLOAND FROM MODRINTH:
https://modrinth.com/plugin/bannermotd




Features

• Banner-style MOTD
• ability for random banner each motd load or rolling - banner changes every X seconds
• Custom “outdated version” message
• Option to force an “outdated version” message
• Hide player count
• Fake player count support
• Compatibility with older Minecraft versions (without **object text components**)

• Displays a fallback MOTD from config
• Supports MOTD from `server.properties` or other MOTD plugins

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