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# How to Add an Icon to Your Minecraft Server

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If you want to set a custom icon for your server on the in-game server list, but don’t know-how, you’re in the right place.

| The icon is the image that is displayed when you add a server to your client.

We also have a video tutorial for adding an icon to your server.

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# 🔬 Preparing Your Icon 🔬

**Please note that your icon has to meet up the following requirements:**

* It needs to be 64x64 pixels in size  
* It needs to be a `.png` file extension  
* It needs to be called `server-icon.png`  
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**To prepare your icon you need to:**

1. Save the picture you want to use, then open the [following page](https://genfavicon.com/).  
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2. Click on `Browse` and select your image, then click on `Upload Image`.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/af7f667760116000/5ce71370-1ce3-4618-8fb1-c023e7_1hjqeh8.png)

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3. Select `64 x 64` at the `Select in Size` campus, then click on `Capture & Preview`.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/866630fdbda8b800/731cda3f-ee8f-4225-9bca-685a88_1hlib5m.png)

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4. Download your new PNG icon and rename it to `server-icon.png`.  
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# 🖼️ Setting Up Your Icon 🖼️

To set up your server icon you can either use our Icon Tool, either upload it manually to your server files.  
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### 💠 The Icon Tool

To upload your icon we will be using the icon tool.

Here is what you need to do:

1. Log in to your Multicraft [here](https://mc.ggservers.com/site/login) and stop your server.  
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2. Click on `Appearance`, then on `Server Icon`.

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3. Click on `Choose File`, choose your icon, then click on `Upload Icon`.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/e39e2a1742dec000/969b3ef7-73ea-45ab-9db6-325396_1awtluk.png)

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4. Start your server.

Now you just uploaded your icon to your server.  
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### 💠 Uploading the Icon Manually

To upload your icon manually you need to:

1. Log in to your Multicraft [here](https://mc.ggservers.com/site/login) and stop your server.  
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2. Click on `Files`, then on `FTP files access`, and log in.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/103d372baee81600/bf4292b5-ffea-4c3a-9c3c-dc699b_1nyov7.png)

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3. Click on `Upload File`, select your icon, and upload it to your root directory of the server.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/ba33bb39ceb6d800/6_6ex5mw.png)

|| NOTE: The root directory of the server is the one that contains all other files and folders.  
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4. Start your server.

Now you just uploaded manually your icon.  
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| If you find any issues setting up your server icon please contact us on live chat or via the [ticket system](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-open-a-support-ticket-qjzuyd/).  
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# ❕ Useful Links ❕

- [How to Change Your Message of the Day (MOTD)](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-change-your-message-of-the-day-motd-7y0l9n/)  
- [Implement a custom resource pack/texture pack in your server](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/implement-a-custom-resource-packtexture-pack-in-your-server-gx8viz/)  
- [Players can't break blocks (Spawn Protection)](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/players-cant-break-blocks-spawn-protection-1ypcdqu/)