
PistonMOTD
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- Custom client out of date message.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.)

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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! ;)
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as PistonMOTD-5.4.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 2.9 MB
- Download link checked 28 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.

