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Minecraft 1.0+ servers
The most recent versions of the Minecraft server support scanning without any plugins. It would be recommended to remove the MinecraftViewer/Minequery plugin to prevent any conflicting issues between the two ways to query your server.

To enable scanning, edit your server.properties with:
enable-query=true
query.port=YourQueryPort
motd=YourServerName

To modify your server name and claim your server, you need to change the motd variable. You could also try editing "server-name" to test if it will work if you are having troubles with motd.

View http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Server.properties for more information. For GameServers.com servers, the query port will likely be 25565 or 25566. Please contact your host for questions regarding the join port and query port.

** This has been tested using stock and Bukkit binaries. If it is not working for you, you likely have not opened the server firewall properly or are running an additional plugin that is conflicting (like MinecraftViewer or MCPC+ plugin).


Legacy Support
We offer legacy support for tracking Minecraft beta servers. However, we will only provide minimal tracking support as our focus will be on supporting the most recent version of the server.

Minecraft beta servers
These servers must run a plugin in order to be scanned. To modify your server name and claim your server, you need to change the server-name variable. The features provided by these plugins in some of the final Minecraft beta versions may be broken, so it is recommended that you always remain updated to the latest Minecraft server version.

If using CraftBukkit

1. Add Minecraftviewer
2. Place the downloaded file in you servers plugins directory. Follow the instructions on the previous link in order to find system specific instructions.
3. Edit server.properties and add:
server-name=YourServerName
4. Restart your server (Alternatively: Reload the plugins with /reload)

If using Canary

1. Add Minecraftviewer
2. Place the downloaded file in you servers plugins directory. View their website if you are having trouble installing the plugin.
3. Edit server.properties and add:
server-name=YourServerName
4. Add MinecraftViewer to your plugins in server.properties
For example:
plugins=MinecraftViewer,Plugin2
5. Restart your server

** These plugins do not work well with non-beta releases of Minecraft and are unnecessary. If it does not work properly, please update your server to the most recent version and follow the suggestions for Minecraft 1.0+ servers where a plugin is no longer required for scanning.

Minecraft classic servers
These servers do not support scanning, unfortunately.