Minecraft Server MOTD Generator
AlaCraft MOTD Generator builds a colored Minecraft server welcome message in 4 steps — no code knowledge required
MOTD (Message of the Day) is the text a player sees in the Minecraft server list before connecting. AlaCraft MOTD Generator lets you compose it visually: pick from 16 colors and 6 formats, preview the result live, and get a ready-to-paste string for server.properties.
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This page builds a server welcome message — the line players see in the server list before they ever connect.
That line is short and fussy: two rows of fifty-nine characters, and the colour and style codes, invisible as they are to the player, still take up room. The more formatting you add, the less actual text is left.
In the generator you type the text, paint it in any of sixteen colours and add styling — bold, italic, underline and the rest, twenty-two codes in all. The preview shows the result straight away, including how the greeting will look in the server list itself.
The finished line copies with one button and goes into the server.properties file, after the word motd, and the server then needs a restart. One separate worry is non-Latin text: in that file it has to be escaped, or players will just see question marks. The generator handles that itself, so copy the whole line as it is.