I was about to change the motd of my Minecraft server. I did this successfully in Server.properties. However, A Minecraft Server is still displayed as a motd (after shutting down and starting up and restarting Minecraft).
In the picture you can see the motd
LG
TomCraftMC
You have to upload the new MotD and restart the server…
Did you do this?
Otherwise, look for special characters that the server may have. Can't display…
And you can't make line breaks either… You have to take \ n…
You could try a MOTD plugin e.g. :https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/motd-1-8-1-15.8390/
I would never recommend a motd plugin just use a generator.
https://mctools.org/motd-creator
Edit Motd save and insert in the config.
Any plugins that change the motd are unnecessary and just perform