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Change the MOTD and server icon

Customise your Victus server listing — edit the MOTD in server.properties (with colour codes) and add a 64x64 server-icon.png.

The MOTD (Message of the Day) is the text shown under your server in the client's multiplayer list, and the server icon is the little image beside it. Both are quick wins that make your server look professional. The MOTD lives in server.properties; the icon is a file named server-icon.png.

Change the MOTD

  1. Open the Files tab and edit server.properties.
  2. Set the motd= line to your text. Use \u00A7 colour/format codes (e.g. \u00A7a green, \u00A7l bold), or \n for a second line.
  3. Save and Restart for it to show in the server list.
# server.properties
motd=\u00A7aWelcome to my server!\n\u00A77Powered by Victus Cloud

Add a server icon

  1. Make a PNG that is exactly 64x64 pixels named server-icon.png.
  2. Upload it to the server root (same folder as server.properties) via the Files tab or SFTP.
  3. Restart the server, then remove and re-add the server in your client so it refreshes the icon.
Icon must be exactly 64x64 PNG

If the icon does not show, it is almost always the wrong size (must be 64x64), wrong format (must be PNG), or wrong filename (must be exactly server-icon.png) in the server root.

Paper/Purpur can do more

For animated hover text, centred lines or hex colours in the MOTD, use a MOTD plugin on Paper/Purpur. The server.properties MOTD supports the classic \u00A7 codes only.

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