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minecraft-server/docs/REBRAND_2026-04-30.md
s8n-ru b1db453a85 chat: deep rebrand to racked.ru palette + prefix 
22 plugins audited, 14 rebranded, 21 files changed. Locks player-facing
chat to monochrome + &e yellow accent with universal prefix
&8[&fracked.ru&8]&r — strips every plugin-name leak (AuthMeReloaded,
[Lands], [Homestead], [SkinsRestorer], [TAB], Grim », [ProAntiTab],
upstream Discord pitches).

Tier-1 surfaces:
- AuthMe welcome.txt: 1-line branded login (was "AuthMeReloaded
  protection!"); ~108 messages recoloured
- MiniMOTD: dead 1.16.2 config.yml deleted (salvos.ddns.net + joke
  MOTDs); main.conf already on-brand
- HelpCommand: full /help recolour, &a/&c labels purged
- ComfyWhitelist: kick screen redesigned to "apply at racked.ru"
- LPC chat-format: banned &l removed (every chat line)

Tier-2 prefix sweep across TAB, GrimAC, ProAntiTab, CoreProtect,
SkinsRestorer, MarriageMaster, Homestead, UltimateTimber.

Plugin folder rename: RackedLimbo → AuthLimbo (matches 2026-04-30
plugin rename + docker-compose update in 6487ada).

Lands lang (~6,975 lines), Homestead lang (~645 lines), and
jar-locale plugins (Multiverse, WorldEdit, FAWE, LuckPerms,
SkinsRestorer prefix) deferred — see docs/REBRAND_2026-04-30.md.

Adds canonical reference: docs/RACKED_BRAND.md (palette, wordmark,
templates, validation checklist).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-01 10:40:28 +01:00

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Rebrand changelog — 2026-04-30 / 2026-05-01

Surfaces touched: 14 plugins, 21 files, 2,682 diff lines. Goal: strip every plugin-name leak and upstream-default colour from player-facing chat. Lock palette + prefix per docs/RACKED_BRAND.md.

Trigger

Post-auth message This server uses AuthMeReloaded protection! appeared on every player login. Other surfaces had similar drift: [Lands], [Homestead], [SkinsRestorer], [TAB], Grim », [ProAntiTab] prefixes; MiniMOTD/config.yml carrying dead 1.16.2-era MOTDs (salvos.ddns.net, BOOBIES*, OnlyFans*); &a/&c/&3 upstream colours leaking through AuthMe.

Audit

Two reports compiled before any edits:

  1. Chat-string inventory — ~150 player-facing keys catalogued across 22 plugins. Top-offenders ranked.
  2. Brand-rules confirmation — ground-truth palette / prefix / tagline pulled from existing on-brand artifacts (MiniMOTD main.conf, TAB footer, Essentials motd.txt, HelpCommand pages, launcher theme).

Outcome: palette monochrome + &e yellow accent (memory updated from "pure monochrome" — real artifacts already used &e for interactive tokens).

Per-plugin changes

Plugin Action
AuthMe welcome.txt → 1-line branded confirmation; ~108 messages recoloured; serverName: racked.ru; help_en.yml header divider
MiniMOTD main.conf kept (already on-brand); config.yml deleted (dead 1.16.2 MOTDs)
Essentials motd.txt already on-brand; 4 chat formats in config.yml; kits.yml book metadata KHobbits → racked.ru
HelpCommand full /help recolour; &a/&c page labels removed; branded headers + 36-dash dividers
TAB www.domain.com + literal ServerName placeholders stripped; brand prefix on messages; small-caps unicode footer kept
GrimAC Grim » prefix → &8[&fracked.ru&8]&r; hard kicks keep &c
ProAntiTab rayzs.de updater disabled; full recolour; brand prefix
CoreProtect ~190 strings rebranded; "Join our Discord" upstream pitch deleted
SkinsRestorer customHelp.message branded (jar locale extraction needed for prefix swap)
ComfyWhitelist kick screen redesigned to 4-line [racked.ru] / not whitelisted / apply at racked.ru
MarriageMaster lang/en.yml — 21 tellraw JSON blocks revalidated; full recolour
LPC chat-format — banned &l removed (touches every chat line)
UltimateTimber config + locale recolour
Homestead config.yml formatters branded; lang file deferred
AuthLimbo header comment RackedLimbo → AuthLimbo (post-rename cleanup)

Plugins with no on-disk surface to rebrand (jar-locale extraction needed for future pass): Multiverse-Core, WorldEdit, FastAsyncWorldEdit, LuckPerms.

Plugins with no player chat at all: PhantomSMP, UnexpectedSpawn, voicechat (.properties colour-code unreliable), Vault, VoidWorldGenerator, ProtocolLib, PlaceholderAPI, spark.

Apply

  1. SSH backup: tar czf /opt/backups/mc-plugins-prerebrand-2026-04-30.tar.gz — 224 MB (configs + lang only, DBs/userdata excluded).
  2. Configs pulled to local workspace; 6 parallel agents drafted diffs.
  3. All YAML + JSON validated (yaml.safe_load, json.loads for tellraw blocks).
  4. 21 files copied into /opt/docker/minecraft/plugins/ via docker namespace bypass (userns-remap host).
  5. MiniMOTD/config.yml deleted.
  6. chown -R 101000:101000 /opt/docker/minecraft/plugins/ (container uid).
  7. docker compose restart minecraft-mc.

Side incident — 2026-05-01

Disk full (/dev/mapper/keystone--vg-root 30G 100%) blocked container restart. Caused by accumulated daily backup tarballs in /opt/backups/ (~10 GB across 7 days).

Resolution:

  1. Deleted 2 oldest daily backups (20260428_020001, 20260429_020001) + lands-migration-20260424 → freed 6.3 GB.
  2. Moved /opt/docker/minecraft → /home/docker/minecraft (cross-FS mv, 27s for 11 GB), symlinked back to /opt/docker/minecraft.
  3. chown 101000:101000 on new path, docker compose restart.

Result: root LV at 46% used (was 100%); MC effective capacity ~232 GB on /home LV. Container Done (20.556s) clean boot post-move.

Open follow-up: move /opt/backups → /home/backups to prevent root-LV refill from rolling daily backups.

Rollback

# Server-side
cd /opt/docker/minecraft
docker compose stop minecraft-mc
tar xzf /opt/backups/mc-plugins-prerebrand-2026-04-30.tar.gz -C ./
docker compose start minecraft-mc

Backup retained 30 days (until 2026-05-30).