Add a server icon to your Minecraft server

The icon next to your server in the multiplayer list comes from a file called server-icon.png in the server folder. Minecraft only accepts one shape of it: 64 by 64 pixels, PNG. Any other size is ignored without an error, which is why a hand-placed icon “does not show”.

From the panel

Click the server’s icon, on the server card or at the top of the server’s page, and the Server icon dialog opens.

• Pick a generated design. The panel draws a set of pixel-art icons for the server; choose one and save.
• Upload your own. Any PNG works: it is resized to 64 by 64 for you and written to the server folder as server-icon.png.

Either way the new icon shows in players’ lists after the next restart, and the panel uses it for the server too.

By hand

1. Make the image exactly 64 by 64 pixels and save it as PNG. Transparency is fine.
2. In Files, upload it to the server folder as server-icon.png, replacing the one that is there.
3. Restart the server.

Nothing in server.properties controls the icon; it is the file alone.

It still shows the old one

• The client caches icons. Press refresh in the multiplayer list, or remove and re-add the server.
• The server has not restarted since the change.
• A hand-placed file is not 64 by 64. Open it and check; a 512 by 512 export is the usual mistake. The panel’s upload never has this problem.
• The server is asleep: a hibernating server shows the sleeping icon the panel sets, and yours returns when it wakes.