This is a discussion topic for the Ore project, PistonMOTD. View the full project on Ore for downloads and more information.
Features
- Customize playercounter tooltip
- Customize online player and max player counter
- Random MOTD
- Custom client out of date message. You can force that to always happen too.
- Random favicon
- Placeholders (extendable via api)
- Hide your playercount
- Very easy to understand config
- Modular (You can enable/disable every feature)
- TPS placeholder
- RGB support
- Luckperms prefix support
Compatible with external MOTD plugins. (Can’t promise it will work with every MOTD plugin.)
API
It IS possible to create and execute your own parsers with an external plugin. To register you need a class implementing the PlaceholderParser and to register it at the PlaceholderUtil with #registerParser(PlaceholderParser parser).
Here is an example of that:
ServerPlaceholder
Registering
And this stuff might get handy:
Javadoc
Stats
Discord
Have fun! 
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A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
First sponge release!
This was previously a spigotmc plugin, but i decided to expand it onto another platform (Sponge ofc)
This adds all feature that were previously bukkit only.
All things look good now!
A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
Big update!
Changes:
- Added velocity support!
- Changed sponge config type from yaml to hocon
- Reworked update checking
- Improved commands
- Lots of minor changes in the code
A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
Finally hex support!
Changes:
If you experience any issues with the plugin please let me know on the discord server: https://discord.gg/CDrcxzH
A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
Changes:
- Created a maven generated site: https://pistonmaster.net/PistonMOTD/
- Changed the the structure to a multi module project.
- Added bukkit like playerlist to bungeecord.
- Updated dependencies.
A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
Changes:
If you want to suggest features or report bugs please join my discord server: https://discord.gg/CDrcxzH
A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
Changes:
A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
Just a small release to move packages around. If you have other plugins like PistonQueue you should update those too as they use the API.
A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
READ THIS BEFORE INSTALLING
PistonMOTD went through a lot of rework the past few months, and this new update has NO backwards support with any previous version at all. This decision was made because of the giant amount of inconsistency in configs between platforms. All features are implemented now on every platform as far as possible. Read more in the changelog below.
All configs contain comments now explaining what everything does and also automatically updates on new releases.
How to upgrade
- Prepare
- rename config.yml → config.yml.old
- if you have a config.conf → do nothing
- rename icons folder → favicons
- Upgrade
Drop in new PistonMOTD jar → restart the server
- Migrate
import settings from config.yml.old or config.conf to config.yml file that was generated
Changelog:
- Rewritten config (Way easier to read and understand)
- Config is the exact same on ALL platforms
- Self updating config with comments (With a custom config system made by me)
- Improved dependency management (PistonMOTD should no longer interfere with other plugins at all)
- New universal code and speed improvements
- Commands are all just /pistonmotd now
- Integration with popular vanish plugins (SuperVanish, PremiumVansh)
A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
Read the 5.0.0 upgrade guide before upgrading from 4.x.x!
Changes:
- Update dependencies
- Fix special chars in config
- Fix config reloading in bukkit
- Fix velocity player sample
- Improve code style
A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
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A new version has been released for PistonMOTD, it is available for download here.
Fix
- fix(deps): update dependency com.github.leonmangler:premiumvanishapi to v2.9.0-4
- fix(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-text-minimessage to v4.15.0
- fix(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-platform-bukkit to v4.3.2
- fix(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-platform-bungeecord to v4.3.2
- fix(deps): update dependency net.md-5:bungeecord-api to v1.20-r0.2
- fix(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-text-minimessage to v4.16.0
- fix(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-text-minimessage to v4.17.0
- fix(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-platform-bukkit to v4.3.3
- fix(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-platform-bungeecord to v4.3.3
- fix(deps): update dependency net.lenni0451.mcstructs:text to v2.5.0
- fix(deps): update dependency net.lenni0451.mcstructs:text to v2.5.1
- fix(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-platform-bukkit to v4.3.4
- fix(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-platform-bungeecord to v4.3.4
- fix(deps): update dependency org.bstats:bstats-bukkit to v3.0.3
- fix(deps): update dependency org.bstats:bstats-bungeecord to v3.0.3
- fix(deps): update dependency org.bstats:bstats-sponge to v3.0.3
- fix(deps): update dependency org.bstats:bstats-velocity to v3.0.3
- fix(deps): update dependency net.lenni0451.mcstructs:text to v2.5.2
- fix(deps): update dependency net.lenni0451.mcstructs:text to v2.5.3
- fix(deps): update dependency org.bstats:bstats-bukkit to v3.1.0
- fix(deps): update dependency org.bstats:bstats-bungeecord to v3.1.0
- fix(deps): update dependency org.bstats:bstats-sponge to v3.1.0
- fix(deps): update dependency org.bstats:bstats-velocity to v3.1.0
Build
- chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.4
- chore(deps): update dependency commons-io:commons-io to v2.15.0
- chore(deps): update actions/setup-java action to v4 (#216)
- chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.5 (#215)
- chore(deps): update dependency commons-io:commons-io to v2.15.1
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4 (#218)
- chore(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-api to v4.15.0
- chore(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-text-serializer-legacy to v4.15.0
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.1.0
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.2.0
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.3.0
- chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.6 (#229)
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.3.1
- chore(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-api to v4.16.0
- chore(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-text-serializer-legacy to v4.16.0
- chore(deps): update dependency org.projectlombok:lombok to v1.18.32
- chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.7
- chore(deps): update dependency commons-io:commons-io to v2.16.0
- chore(deps): update dependency commons-io:commons-io to v2.16.1
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.3.2 (#238)
- chore(deps): update actions/cache action to v4 (#225)
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.3.3
- chore(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-api to v4.17.0
- chore(deps): update dependency net.kyori:adventure-text-serializer-legacy to v4.17.0
- chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.8
- chore(deps): update dependency org.projectlombok:lombok to v1.18.34
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.3.4
- chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.9 (#251)
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.3.5
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.3.6
- chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.10
- chore(deps): update plugin xyz.jpenilla.run-velocity to v2.3.1
- chore(deps): update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.4.0
- chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.10.1
- chore(deps): update dependency commons-io:commons-io to v2.17.0
- chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.10.2
- chore(deps): update all non-major dependencies (#273)
- chore(deps): update all non-major dependencies (#276)
Other
- Update info about platform hiding support
- Revamp how descriptions are parsed to be more consistent
- Merge remote-tracking branch ‘origin/main’
- Fix java versions
- Cleanup motd code
- Remove custom ChatColor class
- Improvements
- Implement centering placeholder
- Bruteforce a better combination of bold and not bold
- Improve code
- Update index.md
- Update site.xml
- Update renovate.json
- Add files via upload
- Make legacy codes a lot more mixable with MiniMessage codes
- Implement new paper APIs for player samples
- Update all toolchains
- Merge helper classes and fix build by updating shadowjar
- Move magic value
- Change to custom exception
- Update deploy.yml
- Update build.yml
- Remove weird plugin injection
- Add jvmdowngrader
- Fixup relocations
- Update java api usage
- Fixup premiumvanish support on bukkit and velocity
- Improve config and prepare for dynamic favicon reloading
- Do not retain old favicons
- Change placeholders to minimessage format but keep support for old configs
- Convert hex legacy chars to MiniMessage too
- Simplify minimessage conversion
- Fix formatting codes
- Update Velocity version
- Fix build
- Update example codes
- Fix rgb on paper and spigot
- This commit marks release 5.2.0
