Minecraft server guides
Practical how-tos for server owners and admins. Each guide walks through one job step by step, with the config you need, the mistakes that usually break it, and the free tool that does the fiddly part for you.
Menus and ranks
Custom GUI background in DeluxeMenus with ItemsAdder
Put a picture behind a chest menu: a font image in the menu title, moved into place with negative offsets.
DeluxeMenus GUI background with Nexo or Oraxen
The same texture menu trick with Nexo or Oraxen glyphs and shift placeholders.
LuckPerms rank prefixes with image badges
Pixel rank badges in chat and tab: ItemsAdder font images, %img_…% and LuckPerms priorities.
How your server looks in lists
MOTD colours, hex and gradients
Colour codes, hex and gradients, two lines, centring and the § escaping in server.properties.
Minecraft server icon not showing: fixes
Size, file name, folder, cache and proxies: why server-icon.png does not appear and how to fix it.
Animated Minecraft server banners
Common banner sizes, keeping a GIF small and making text readable at a glance.
Votes and players
NuVotifier setup on Paper and Velocity
Install NuVotifier, pick v1 or v2, forward votes through a proxy, open the port and send a test vote.
Vote rewards with VotingPlugin
VoteSites.yml, the service name that has to match, rewards, vote delay and Bedrock names.
How to get players for a new Minecraft server
An honest plan for the first players: a clear listing, server lists, vote rewards, Discord and Bedrock.
Let Bedrock players join with Geyser and Floodgate
Crossplay on Paper or Velocity: UDP port 19132, key.pem on the backends, the dot prefix and the usual errors.