Minecraft "Ping" plugin for displaying an icon, message of the day (motd) and number of players to those attempting to connect to the server.

(3t3n is the abbreviation for a hosted server)

Features:

• Example Minecraft "ping" plugin. Also a very easy initial plugin for those learning about plugin development.
• Compiled to support older servers running on Java 8.
• Tested plugin on these servers:
  • Spigot 1.16.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT (compile with Java 14 on MacOS) when testing plugin locally.
  • Paper 1.16.4 (compiled with Java 8) running on a paid hosting service using an older version of Java.

If you haven't create a plugin before, you'll need to setup your local development environment and understand the compile and test workflow. I've created a Minecraft Plugin Development Guide to cover this.

Make sure you first update the plugin version in pom.xml in <version>1.0.1</version>.

mvn clean package

You should now have your new plugin jar file in target folder.

• Copy target/Motd3T3NPingPlugin-n.n.n.jar to your server /plugin folder, and reload server configuration (or just restart server).

• Copy src/main/resources/3t3n-icon.png image (64x64) to the root of your Minecraft server folder (NOT the plugin folder).

You should see a message in your server console:

[11:50:26] [Server thread/INFO]: [Motd3t3n] Enabling Motd3t3n v1.0.0