Changing your Minecraft server icon

The little image next to your server in Minecraft's multiplayer list is a single PNG file called server-icon.png sitting in your server root. Replace it, restart, and every player who refreshes their server list sees your icon.

The rules

Minecraft reads exactly one file, at exactly one size:

• Filename: server-icon.png — spelled precisely that, all lowercase.
• Location: the root of your server (same folder as server.properties), not inside world/ or plugins/.
• Format: PNG. JPG, WEBP, GIF, and everything else are ignored.
• Size: exactly 64×64 pixels. Anything else is silently dropped and the default grey block is shown instead.
• Transparency: fine — the vanilla client renders alpha correctly.

Making the image

Any image editor will do — Photoshop, GIMP, Photopea (free, browser-based), Figma, Krita. If you have a bigger source image, resize it to 64×64 first. There are also free online "server-icon" generators (search that exact phrase) that take any image and crop it to 64×64.

Keep it readable at tiny size. Complex logos with fine text disappear at 64 pixels — a bold silhouette, a face, or a simple emblem always reads better than a wordmark.

Uploading via the panel

1. Open your server in the ServerPrism panel and click File Manager.
2. Make sure you are at the root — the address bar should show just /, and you should see server.properties in the file list.
3. Drag server-icon.png from your desktop straight into the file list, or click Upload and pick the file.
4. If a server-icon.png already exists, the panel asks to overwrite — say yes.
5. Go to the Console tab and click Restart.

Uploading via SFTP

If you prefer SFTP (useful for larger uploads or if you already have a client open), the same principle:

1. Open your SFTP client (FileZilla, WinSCP, Cyberduck) with the SFTP details from the panel.
2. Navigate to the server root.
3. Drop server-icon.png there.
4. Restart the server from the panel.

When it doesn't show up

Almost every "my icon isn't showing" case is one of these:

• File is not exactly 64×64. Right-click the file in File Manager → Properties, or check the file's own info on your PC. If dimensions are anything other than 64×64, Minecraft ignores it entirely.
• File is JPG or WEBP, renamed to .png. Renaming doesn't convert the format. Re-export as a real PNG from your image editor.
• File is not in the root. It has to sit next to server.properties, not inside world/ or a subfolder.
• Filename has a typo or capitalisation change. Server-Icon.png, server_icon.png, and servericon.png all fail. It must be server-icon.png exactly.
• You uploaded but did not restart. Minecraft loads the icon at startup and caches it. A restart is required.
• Your client cached the old icon. After the server restart, quit and reopen Minecraft, or press F5 on the server-list entry to force a refresh.

Removing the icon

Delete server-icon.png from the root and restart. You are back to the default grey block.