Server Customization

Customizing your server to fit your individual needs and make it stand out from the thousands of individual Minehut Servers is integral to your server's success. This guide will outline some of the numerous ways you can make your server stand out from ranks, features, MOTD (Message of the Day), and server icons & tags on Minehut.

This article assumes that your server runs Spigot, or a fork of Spigot such as Paper.

Account Linking

Account linking on Minehut allows you to access your in-game created servers through the website so that you can manage its settings, files, and more and as well as earn credits from voting.

You can follow the following steps to link your Minehut account:

1. Create a minehut.com account or log in to an existing account.
2. Head over to the account settings page and press the Link Account button.
3. Copy the command that is shown to you and paste it in the Minehut lobby.

Once that is done, click the "My Servers" tab and you should see and manage all of your server that you have created in-game.

⚠️ While you can unlink your account at any time using the /unlink command, moving your servers from your in-game account to your Minehut account is irreversible. If you unlink your account, your server will still be associated with your Minehut account and not your Minecraft one. Unlinking and linking accounts also has a 36 hour cooldown.

Opping Yourself

If you are not opped in game, you need to op yourself. Once you have your server's dashboard open, go to the Console section to access the server console. Then, simply type /op (username). If you are playing on Bedrock Edition, you may also need to be on your server while doing this.

Adding Plugins

On Minehut, there are two different ways to add plugins to your server. You can either add it through the addons panel or manually upload the jar file yourself. Manually uploading the plugin yourself is more recommended as the panel plugin versions may be outdated sometimes and it is also easier to manage.

Addons Panel

To install a plugin through the addons panel, start your server and head over to the tab named Add-Ons. Then search up the plugin you want to download and press Install. Some plugins may direct you to their downloads page as the plugin author did not specify a direct download link. So if you experience that, you will have to download it manually and upload it to the plugins folder and then restart the server.

Manual Download

Search up a plugin that you would like to download on a website like SpigotMC or Modrinth. After downloading the jar for your server version, upload it to the plugins folder: click on File Manager at the top, navigate to the plugins folder, and upload it (such as by dragging it in). Then, restart your server.

Notes

Generally, plugins made for versions other than your server version will still work, because Bukkit is designed to be forward-compatible. However, please try to make sure that you use plugins made for your exact server version whenever possible. For instance, WorldGuard breaks if it is incorrect, and WorldEdit will refuse to work entirely.

Some server versions are nearly identical and their protocol version are the same so most plugins should work for both versions. An example of this is 1.21.2 and 1.21.3.

Ranks

Often, server owners use ranks to provide some benefit to the holder. Common perks are custom prefixes, chat colors, exclusive commands, a chat cooldown bypass, or a hoist in the tab list.

There are a variety of ranks plugins, such as LuckPerms, PermissionsEx, or GroupManager. I recommend LuckPerms as it is the most updated.

You can use most permissions plugins with Skript using Vault. Alternatively, LuckPerms also works with EssentialsX and EssentialsChat.

MOTD

MOTD, short for Message of the Day, is a small message a server owner can post for any player to view in their server list. It can be one or two lines.

Example:

You can customise your MOTD in a couple of ways.

Method 1: server.properties

Navigate to File Manager, then go to server.properties.

Next, edit the motd= line. By default the value is "A Minecraft Server". Note that any changes require a restart to take effect.

Method 2: Plugin

There are a variety of plugin options for editing your server's MOTD. Some common picks are: motd.gg, FastMOTD, Skript, or making your own (requires Java knowledge).