Confirmed working with Minecraft 1.12
Welcome to my tutorial on how to colour and format your servers MOTD! If you're here, then you have probably tried to do a MOTD such as "&5Vauff's Awesome Server!". Sadly though, it would have shown up like this.
Let's try to fix this shall we? First we're going to need to get rid of the &5 and make the MOTD "Vauff's Awesome Server!" again. Before we more in depth to tutorial lets go over the colour and formatting codes again.
&0 - BLACK
&1 - DARK BLUE
&2 - DARK GREEN
&3 - DARK AQUA
&4 - DARK RED
&5 - DARK PURPLE
&6 - GOLD
&7 - GRAY
&8 - DARK GRAY
&9 - INDIGO
&a - GREEN
&b - AQUA
&c - RED
&d - PINK
&e - YELLOW
&f - WHITE
&k - Obfuscated
&l - Bold
&m - Strikethrough
&n - Underline
&o - Italic
&r - Reset
Now, in order to get our MOTD coloured or formatted we need to put \u00A7 instead of the &. So something like &5 would turn into \u00A75. The full list of these is listed below.
\u00A70 - BLACK
\u00A71 - DARK BLUE
\u00A72 - DARK GREEN
\u00A73 - DARK AQUA
\u00A74 - DARK RED
\u00A75 - DARK PURPLE
\u00A76 - GOLD
\u00A77 - GRAY
\u00A78 - DARK GRAY
\u00A79 - INDIGO
\u00A7a - GREEN
\u00A7b - AQUA
\u00A7c - RED
\u00A7d - PINK
\u00A7e - YELLOW
\u00A7f - WHITE
\u00A7k - Obfuscated
\u00A7l - Bold
\u00A7m - Strikethrough
\u00A7n - Underline
\u00A7o - Italic
\u00A7r - Reset
You would also be able to use § in replacement of the & instead of \u00A7 if you choose to do so.
After replacing the &5 in my MOTD with \u00A75 my MOTD now looks like this.
Hope you found this tutorial helpful
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