RealMotd
RealMotd is advanced MOTD plugin. It offers you big amount of variables to use in MOTD, different MOTD every day, permission checking in motd and colors in MOTD.
Features
- Many many variables to use in MOTD
- Colorful MOTD
- Also /motd
- Group-specific MOTD
- World-specific MOTD
- Group in world specific MOTD ( CHECK PAGE QUICK START FOR MORE INFORMATION)
- 3 Modes: Single(only one MOTD within selected context), Daily(some days have special messages), Random(everytime player logs in choose something else)
- Checking whether player has permission in MOTD.
- Itallics,Bold,Underline, Strike & Rainbow!
Variables
This plugin offers you big amount of variables, so here you go!(please let me know if I forgot something)
- %player% - Name of player who has joined
- %nick% - Name of player who has joined. This may be colorful, contain prefix & suffix. Also, it's changeable.
- %world% - Name of world player has joined to
- %time% - Time in player's world.(0-24000)
- %weather% - Weather in world (rain or clear)
- %ip% - Player's IP
- %playerlist% - Online players
- %d% - Day of month in real life
- %mo% - Month
- %yr% - Year
- %h% - Hour
- %mi% - Minute
- %s% - Second
- %exp% - Experience
- %lev% - Level
- %totalexp% - Total experience
- %food% - Player's food level
- %x% - Player's X coordinate
- %y% - Player's Y coordinate
- %z% - Player's Z coordinate
- %op% - Whether the player is an OP
- %mode% - Game mode of the player
- ^example.example - Checks whether the player has permission example.example . The character ^ can be changed to something else.
- /n - New line in MOTD.
- %whitelist% - Whitelisted players
- %banlist% - Banned players
- %timestat% - Status of time (day | night)
- %allowednether% - Whether there is a nether enabled on this server (true | false)
- %allowflight% - Whether there is flight allowed (true | false)
- %serverip% - IP address of the server
- %serverport% - Port the server is listening on
- %serverid% - ID of the server (random number used for authentification)
- %env% - Environment type of the world where player is
- %nplayersonline% - Online players count
- %nmaxplayers% - Maximal count of players on the server
- %ptime% - Player's time (may be different from world's time)
- %ptimestat% - Same as timestat, but with player's time
- %worlds% - Worlds which this server is currently running
- %plugins% - Plugins running on this server
- %day% - Minecraft day
Commands
Commands can be used to set MOTD in-game. It's good for quick changing, but you're limited to 80 chars. Use /motd set <motd> to set default motd and /motd set <month> <day> <motd> to set a day-specific motd. While setting motd in-game, use /n for newline and colors stay the same.
Configuration
This plugin generates configuration file after its first run.
Configuration Nodes
transl.weather.clear - Translation for weather clear transl.weather.raining - Translation for raining transl.mode.creative - Translation for creative mode transl.mode.survival - Translation for survival mode transl.op.is - Translation for OP transl.op.isnt - Translation for regular player transl.permission.has - Translation for has permission transl.permission.hasnt - Translation for hasn't permission transl.time.day - Translation for day transl.time.night - Translation for night transl.env.nether - Translation for nether transl.env.sky - Translation for skylands transl.env.normal - Translation for regular world transl.flight.allowed - Translation for flight allowed transl.flight.denied - Translation for flight denied permission - The character which identifies, that the text next to it is permission verification motd.mode - Mode of motd. Must be one of these: Daily, Random, Single
Setting up MOTD
Setting up motd is very easy. Go to <your server's folder>/plugins/RealMotd where you find folder "messages".
- Daily mode - Different MOTD for special days. You need to create a new text file called: motd_[month]_[day].txt ,where you write your motd. For example, for 26th September, it'd be "motd_9_26.txt". You don't need to create MOTD files for every day. Only for those special ones. If RealMotd can't find such-named file, it displays the default file.
- Random mode - Random mode each time user logs in You need to create how much of txt files you like. Files don't even have to end with .TXT. This mode chooses random file from messages directory as MOTD.
- Single mode - One MOTD forever. Always chooses motd.txt from folder messages.
If you're confused, look at the example configuration file below
Example configuration file
transl.weather.clear: Clear transl.weather.raining: Raining transl.mode.creative: Creative transl.mode.survival: Survival transl.op.is: Operator transl.op.isnt: Player transl.permission.has: can transl.permission.hasnt: can't permission: ^ transl.time.day: Day transl.time.night: Night transl.env.nether: Nether transl.env.sky: Skylands transl.env.normal: Overworld transl.flight.allowed: can transl.flight.denied: can't mode: single
How do I use the configuration file like that???
There are lots of options how to make MOTD as you wish. This example configuration file can be used as following: [plugins/RealMotd/messages/motd.txt]
Hello %op% %player%! You ^can.mine mine blocks and ^can.build build. You ^can.fly fly. Time of server is %time%. That's %timestat%. It's %weather%.
Look at the result MOTD. I've attached two of them, so you can see which parts of MOTD are changing. The result MOTD for code like that would look like this:
Hello Player Tomsik68! You can't mine blocks and can't build. You can't fly. Time of server is 13536. That's night. It's Clear.
or this:
Hello Operator Tomsik68! You can mine blocks and can build. You can fly. Time of server is 1353. That's day. It's Raining.
Colors
There are more ways of using colors in RealMotd. You can choose which one you want to use using configuration file. For more information about colors, please look here.
If you need more complex MOTD example even with formatting and colors, go here
Addons
So you don't have enough? RealMotd API is big, so there are some plugins that are using it. Here's a list of such plugins:
- RealMotd-Messages - Implementation of Join & Leave message using RealMotd variables, colors & formatting!
- RealMotd-ServerList - Server list message(a.k.a. MOTD) using RealMotd power!
TO-DO
- Import groups from permission plugins
Developers' API
It's available at http:dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/realmotd/pages/developers-api-documentation/
This help is not complete
As this plugin is very customisable, you can try to figure out some trick with configuration, variables or colors. And if you don't know how to do something with this plugin, send me a PM, or email me at [email protected] . I like to help! Thanks and Enjoy!
Have a problem? Take a ticket!
If you wanna submit a bug, please take a ticket, so we avoid comments section mess ;)
Contact Author
If you wish to contact author somewhere else, you can do so on:
- Blog: http://tomsik68.github.io/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomsik68
- E-Mail: [email protected]
- GitHub: https://github.com/tomsik68 (also, sources of all plugins!)
- Skype: Tomsik68
@tomsik68
I didn't have anything in my config.yml of decorators, I just delete and reload the plugin to get the default config and now everything works fine.
Thank you tomsik68.
@MuffMiff
So if I understood correctly, you want to have random MOTD each time user logs in, right? To achieve this, set your config file like this:
Now go to plugins/RealMotd/messages and create several TXT files in that folder. These TXTs will be all MOTDs and plugin will choose a random MOTD each time.
I can't seem to make the random mode work. Please help :c
@Kino876
Open your config file(plugins/RealMotd/config.yml) and look for section "decorators". If it's there, replace it by this:
If it's not there, add it to your config file(copy-paste from above).
From 0.9b to 0.9.1.
Yes, a big jump but was working fine in months and in all previous versions of CB/Spigot and did not need to update, I've actually gone back to 0.9b and works fine again.
The text show the color code, I mean, you write "Hello &greenPlayer" and you will see all the text in white including the color code, exactly as you wrote it in the motd.txt.
@Kino876
Which version did you update from? Which version did you update to? :)
Hi, after updating, the colors don't show well, maybe a bug?...
@EddieFriday
RealMotd currently only displays MOTD when player joins game, but I'll add this feature as it's really quick :)
Configuration: 1. Set up your motd.mode in config file (plugins/RealMotd/config.yml) to Single 2. Set "motd.world-specific" to true in config file. 3. Now create file plugins/RealMotd/messages/world1/motd.txt (this is MOTD for world1) 4. Create file plugins/RealMotd/messages/world2/motd.txt (this is MOTD for world2)
How can I make MOTD per world. The configuration is somewhat hard to understand.
I want players to see MOTD for each specific Worlds like:
World1 - has its own motd world2 - has its own motd
So everytime the switch from world to world they see MOTD for that specific world.
@tomsik68
That's not impossible. I'll upload the latest one and see if its still there.
Edit: Yep that fixed it, thanks. :)
@TruDan97
Are you using the latest version(0.9)? Because alpha & beta versions had that enabled, but I think I've turned it off for stables...
Also, is it possible to disable the console spam on every player join? It would be nice to have it as a config option like "debug: false" because my console logs are just spammed with
(that's just 1/5 of what it outputs on each player join)
Thanks
@EN7
Tested just for you - RealMotd 0.9 + CraftBukkit 1.7.2-R0.3 works without problems
@tomsik68
Does this work in 1.7?
@TruDan97
I suggest you make a custom plugin for that(like add variable to RealMotd) because these are just 2 variables and I'd have to make a huge interface around that, so it only is added if you have vault and stuff like that...
Can you add some variables to get a prefix/suffix via Vault?
Like %permsuffix% %permprefix% etc?
@MilesDad
Yeah, that's a debug message... There's no option to turn that off in 0.9.2b. I recommend you switch back to stable version if you want to get rid of that... :/
The auto-generated config works fine, but I'm getting an incredible torrent of INFO messages on the console each time MOTD runs:
11.01 11:32:31 [Server] INFO Replacing '&light_purpleWhat' for '\'a7dWhat'\ 11.01 11:32:31 [Server] INFO Looking up replacement '&light_purpleWhat'\ 11.01 11:32:31 [Server] INFO Replacing '&yellowA' for '\'a7eA'\ 11.01 11:32:31 [Server] INFO Looking up replacement '&yellowA'\ 11.01 11:32:31 [Server] INFO Replacing '&aquaTell' for '\'a7bTell'\ 11.01 11:32:31 [Server] INFO Looking up replacement '&aquaTell'\
Is there a config option to turn off verbose logging?
@MilesDad
Try adding this to your config file:
FYI - upgrading to 0.9.2b broke color display for me ("&green" appeared in the motd, for instance, instead of changing the text color to green).
Deleting the config and restarting fixed it.