✨ NzxterMOTD ✨

A modern, highly optimized, and feature-rich Message of the Day (MOTD) plugin for Bukkit/Spigot servers. Powered by ProtocolLib, this plugin allows you to completely customize your server's appearance in the multiplayer server list with dynamic gradients, maintenance modes, fake player counts, and unique hover menus!

🚀 Key Features

• 🌈 Dynamic Color Gradients: Built-in advanced gradient parsing (<green>, <aqua>, <gold>, etc.) to create smooth, eye-catching multi-color transitions across your MOTD lines, version names, and player hover lists.
• 🔧 Smart Maintenance Mode: Toggle maintenance with a simple command (/motd maintenance on). Non-staff players will see a custom maintenance MOTD, unique favicon, and will be gracefully kicked with a fully formatted message if they try to join.
• 👥 Flexible Player Count & Fake Players: * Set a custom maximum player count independent of your server.properties.
  • Enable Fake Players to simulate active traffic with a randomized counter up to your maximum player limit.
• 🎨 Complete Server-List Customization:
  • Custom Version Text: Replace the standard player count string (e.g., 1.20.4) with customized status text, featuring alignment support for an elegant split layout.
  • Interactive Player Hover Menu: Fully customize the text lines displayed when players hover over the player count in their server list.
  • Dynamic Favicons: Automatically switch between normal and maintenance server icons (server-icon.png) to visually signal server status.
• ⚡ Highly Performant: Built straight onto packet-level processing using ProtocolLib adapters, ensuring minimal impact on main server tick rates.
• 🌍 Bilingual Commands: Support for both English (/motd maintenance) and German (/motd wartung) subcommands out of the box!

🛠️ Commands & Permissions

🔑 Permissions

• motd.team — Bypasses maintenance mode kick restriction and counts towards team player placeholders.
• motd.bypass — Bypasses full server connection restrictions when the maximum player count is reached.

📦 Configuration Overview

The plugin generates a detailed config.yml where you can customize all messages, text lists, and design templates:

• motd.normal.top / motd.normal.bottom: List of random MOTD phrases for standard operation.
• versionname.hover: Lines of text to display inside the interactive player list hover box.
• messages.maintenance.kick: Multi-line formatted kick screens for non-whitelisted connections.

Note: Requires ProtocolLib to be installed on your Bukkit/Spigot server instance.