Minecraft MOTD & MiniMessage Generator

Create stunning server MOTDs with colors, gradients, and effects

Editor MiniMessage

Custom Color

Gradient Builder

Click & Hover Actions

Your MOTD

Click to insert example:
<green><bold>My Server</bold></green>
<gradient:#ff0000:#0000ff>Rainbow Server</gradient>
<rainbow>Colorful Text!</rainbow>
Join Lobby')"> <hover:show_text:...><click:run_command:...>...</click></hover>

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MiniMessage Tag Reference

MiniMessage is a powerful text formatting system used by Paper, Velocity, and many modern Minecraft plugins. It provides a cleaner syntax than legacy color codes.

Colors

Named colors or hex codes

<red>Red text</red> <#FF5500>Custom color</#FF5500>

Gradients

Smooth color transitions

<gradient:#ff0000:#00ff00>Text</gradient> <gradient:red:gold:yellow>Multi</gradient>

Rainbow

Cycle through rainbow colors

<rainbow>Rainbow text!</rainbow> <rainbow:2>Phase shifted</rainbow>

Formatting

Text decoration styles

<bold>, <italic>, <underlined> <strikethrough>, <obfuscated>

Click Events

Interactive click actions

<click:run_command:/spawn>Click!</click> <click:open_url:https://...>Link</click>

Hover Events

Tooltip on hover

<hover:show_text:'Info'>Hover me</hover>

Insertion

Shift+click to insert text

<insertion:text>Shift+Click</insertion>

Transitions

Animated color transitions

<transition:#ff0000:#00ff00:0.5>Text</transition>

Named Colors

MiniMessage supports these named colors: black, dark_blue, dark_green, dark_aqua, dark_red, dark_purple, gold, gray, dark_gray, blue, green, aqua, red, light_purple, yellow, white

Plugins That Support MiniMessage

  • Paper/Purpur - Native support in newer versions
  • Velocity - Built-in MiniMessage support
  • LuckPerms - Prefixes and suffixes
  • TAB - Tablist formatting
  • DeluxeChat - Chat formatting
  • EssentialsX - With MiniMessage addon
  • PlaceholderAPI - Placeholder formatting

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