## **BannerMOTD – A server list MOTD plugin to make your server unique**<\/p>\n
**Replace plain text with a full 264 \u00d7 16 px banner**<\/p>\n
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\n# IMPORTANT:
\nthis plugin only works on 1.21.9 – 1.21.11
\nolder version does not support it and mojang removed it from newer versions, the bannerMOTD is going to be replaced by the fallback motd <\/p>\n
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## How it works<\/p>\n
In Minecraft 1.21.9, a new text system feature called **object text components** was introduced.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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The BannerMOTD generator onec manally ran takes a PNG file named `mymotd` (264 \u00d7 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.<\/p>\n
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## Setup<\/p>\n
– create your banner as png (264 \u00d7 16 px) called mymotd or use https:\/\/www.pixelbanner.net\/ (thanks to @Pekly)<\/p>\n
**1. Generate your `motd.json` from an image**<\/p>\n
you have 2 options:
\n1. use my online converter to cenvert your png (264 x 16px) to usable json file
\n2. do i locally by dowloading this script from github and following its readme<\/p>\n
**2. Install the plugin**<\/p>\n
1. Download the plugin from here and put it in your plugins folder.
\n2. (Re)start your server to generate the `BannerMOTDplus` folder.
\n3. Open the folder and place your `motd.json` inside. Adjust the plugin config if needed.
\n4. Restart the server.<\/p>\n
Your MOTD should now display as the banner you created.<\/p>\n
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## Features<\/p>\n
* Banner-style MOTD
\n* ability for random banner each motd load or rolling – banner changes every X seconds
\n* Custom \u201coutdated version\u201d message
\n* Option to force an \u201coutdated version\u201d message<\/p>\n
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* Hide player count<\/p>\n
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* Fake player count support
\n* Compatibility with older Minecraft versions (without **object text components**)<\/p>\n
* Displays a fallback MOTD from config
\n * Supports MOTD from `server.properties` or other MOTD plugins<\/p>\n
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