diff --git a/server-properties/helpers/loading/bash_loading_animations.demo b/server-properties/helpers/loading/bash_loading_animations.demo
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034 # https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/SC2034
+
+# Load in the functions and animations
+source ./bash_loading_animations.sh
+# Run BLA::stop_loading_animation if the script is interrupted
+trap BLA::stop_loading_animation SIGINT
+
+demo_loading_animation() {
+  BLA_active_loading_animation=( "${@}" )
+  # Extract the delay between each frame from the active_loading_animation array
+  BLA_loading_animation_frame_interval="${BLA_active_loading_animation[0]}"
+  # Sleep long enough that all frames are showed
+  # substract 1 to the number of frames to account for index [0]
+  demo_duration=$( echo "${BLA_active_loading_animation[0]} * ( ${#BLA_active_loading_animation[@]} - 1 )" | bc )
+  # Make sure each animation is shown for at least 3 seconds
+  if [[ $( echo "if (${demo_duration} < 3) 0 else 1" | bc ) -eq 0 ]] ; then
+    demo_duration=3
+  fi
+  unset "BLA_active_loading_animation[0]"
+  echo
+  BLA::play_loading_animation_loop &
+  BLA_loading_animation_pid="${!}"
+  sleep "${demo_duration}"
+  kill "${BLA_loading_animation_pid}" &> /dev/null
+  clear
+}
+
+tput civis # Hide the terminal cursor
+clear
+
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_classic[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_box[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_bubble[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_breathe[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_growing_dots[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_passing_dots[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_metro[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_snake[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_filling_bar[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_classic_utf8[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_bounce[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_vertical_block[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_horizontal_block[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_quarter[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_triangle[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_semi_circle[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_rotating_eyes[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_firework[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_braille[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_braille_whitespace[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_trigram[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_arrow[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_bouncing_ball[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_big_dot[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_modern_metro[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_pong[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_earth[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_clock[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_moon[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_orange_pulse[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_blue_pulse[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_football[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_blink[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_camera[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_sparkling_camera[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_sick[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_monkey[@]}"
+demo_loading_animation "${BLA_bomb[@]}"
+
+tput cnorm # Restore the terminal cursor
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/server-properties/helpers/loading/bash_loading_animations.sh b/server-properties/helpers/loading/bash_loading_animations.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Source: https://github.com/Silejonu/bash_loading_animations
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034 # https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/SC2034
+
+### Loading animations list ###
+# The first value of an array is the interval (in seconds) between each frame
+
+## ASCII animations ##
+# Will work in any terminal, including the TTY.
+BLA_classic=( 0.25 '-' "\\" '|' '/' )
+BLA_box=( 0.2 ┤ ┴ ├ ┬ )
+BLA_bubble=( 0.6 · o O O o · )
+BLA_breathe=( 0.9 '  ()  ' ' (  ) ' '(    )' ' (  ) ' )
+BLA_growing_dots=( 0.5 '.  ' '.. ' '...' '.. ' '.  ' '   ' )
+BLA_passing_dots=( 0.25 '.  ' '.. ' '...' ' ..' '  .' '   ' )
+BLA_metro=( 0.2 '[    ]' '[=   ]' '[==  ]' '[=== ]' '[ ===]' '[  ==]' '[   =]' )
+BLA_snake=( 0.4 '[=     ]' '[~<    ]' '[~~=   ]' '[~~~<  ]' '[ ~~~= ]' '[  ~~~<]' '[   ~~~]' '[    ~~]' '[     ~]' '[      ]' )
+BLA_filling_bar=( 0.05 '█▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '██▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '███▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '█████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '██████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '███████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '█████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '██████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '███████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '█████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '██████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '███████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '█████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '██████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '███████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '█████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '██████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '███████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '████████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '█████████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒' '██████████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒' '███████████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒' '████████████████████████████▒▒▒▒' '█████████████████████████████▒▒▒' '██████████████████████████████▒▒' '███████████████████████████████▒' '████████████████████████████████')
+
+## UTF-8 animations ##
+# Require Unicode support (will work in most modern terminals, but not in TTY).
+# Some animations may not render properly with certain fonts.
+BLA_classic_utf8=( 0.25 '—' "\\" '|' '/' )
+BLA_bounce=( 0.3 . · ˙ · )
+BLA_vertical_block=( 0.25 ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ █ ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▃ ▂ ▁ )
+BLA_horizontal_block=( 0.25 ▏ ▎ ▍ ▌ ▋ ▊ ▉ ▉ ▊ ▋ ▌ ▍ ▎ ▏ )
+BLA_quarter=( 0.25 ▖ ▘ ▝ ▗ )
+BLA_triangle=( 0.45 ◢ ◣ ◤ ◥)
+BLA_semi_circle=( 0.1 ◐ ◓ ◑ ◒ )
+BLA_rotating_eyes=( 0.4 ◡◡ ⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ ◠◠ )
+BLA_firework=( 0.4 '⢀' '⠠' '⠐' '⠈' '*' '*' ' ' )
+BLA_braille=( 0.2 ⠁ ⠂ ⠄ ⡀ ⢀ ⠠ ⠐ ⠈ )
+BLA_braille_whitespace=( 0.2 ⣾ ⣽ ⣻ ⢿ ⡿ ⣟ ⣯ ⣷ )
+BLA_trigram=( 0.25 ☰ ☱ ☳ ☶ ☴ )
+BLA_arrow=( 0.15 ▹▹▹▹▹ ▸▹▹▹▹ ▹▸▹▹▹ ▹▹▸▹▹ ▹▹▹▸▹ ▹▹▹▹▸ ▹▹▹▹▹ ▹▹▹▹▹ ▹▹▹▹▹ ▹▹▹▹▹ ▹▹▹▹▹ ▹▹▹▹▹ ▹▹▹▹▹ )
+BLA_bouncing_ball=( 0.4 '(●     )' '( ●    )' '(  ●   )' '(   ●  )' '(    ● )' '(     ●)' '(    ● )' '(   ●  )' '(  ●   )' '( ●    )' )
+BLA_big_dot=( 0.7 ∙∙∙ ●∙∙ ∙●∙ ∙∙● )
+BLA_modern_metro=( 0.15 ▰▱▱▱▱▱▱ ▰▰▱▱▱▱▱ ▰▰▰▱▱▱▱ ▱▰▰▰▱▱▱ ▱▱▰▰▰▱▱ ▱▱▱▰▰▰▱ ▱▱▱▱▰▰▰ ▱▱▱▱▱▰▰ ▱▱▱▱▱▱▰ ▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ ▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ ▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ ▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ )
+BLA_pong=( 0.35 '▐⠂       ▌' '▐⠈       ▌' '▐ ⠂      ▌' '▐ ⠠      ▌' '▐  ⡀     ▌' '▐  ⠠     ▌' '▐   ⠂    ▌' '▐   ⠈    ▌' '▐    ⠂   ▌' '▐    ⠠   ▌' '▐     ⡀  ▌' '▐     ⠠  ▌' '▐      ⠂ ▌' '▐      ⠈ ▌' '▐       ⠂▌' '▐       ⠠▌' '▐       ⡀▌' '▐      ⠠ ▌' '▐      ⠂ ▌' '▐     ⠈  ▌' '▐     ⠂  ▌' '▐    ⠠   ▌' '▐    ⡀   ▌' '▐   ⠠    ▌' '▐   ⠂    ▌' '▐  ⠈     ▌' '▐  ⠂     ▌' '▐ ⠠      ▌' '▐ ⡀      ▌' '▐⠠       ▌' )
+BLA_earth=( 0.45 🌍 🌎 🌏 )
+BLA_clock=( 0.2 🕛 🕐 🕑 🕒 🕓 🕔 🕕 🕖 🕗 🕘 🕙 🕚 )
+BLA_moon=( 0.8 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 )
+BLA_orange_pulse=( 0.35 🔸 🔶 🟠 🟠 🔶 )
+BLA_blue_pulse=( 0.35 🔹 🔷 🔵 🔵 🔷 )
+BLA_football=( 0.25 ' 👧⚽️       👦' '👧  ⚽️      👦' '👧   ⚽️     👦' '👧    ⚽️    👦' '👧     ⚽️   👦' '👧      ⚽️  👦' '👧       ⚽️👦 ' '👧      ⚽️  👦' '👧     ⚽️   👦' '👧    ⚽️    👦' '👧   ⚽️     👦' '👧  ⚽️      👦' )
+BLA_blink=( 0.25 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😑 )
+BLA_camera=( 0.1 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📸 📷 📸 )
+BLA_sparkling_camera=( 0.1 '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📷 ' '📸✨' '📷 ' '📸✨' )
+BLA_sick=( 0.9 🤢 🤢 🤮 )
+BLA_monkey=( 0.4 🙉 🙈 🙊 🙈 )
+BLA_bomb=( 0.25 '💣   ' ' 💣  ' '  💣 ' '   💣' '   💣' '   💣' '   💣' '   💣' '   💥' '    ' '    ' )
+
+declare -a BLA_active_loading_animation
+
+BLA::play_loading_animation_loop() {
+  while true ; do
+    for frame in "${BLA_active_loading_animation[@]}" ; do
+      printf "\r%s" "${frame}"
+      sleep "${BLA_loading_animation_frame_interval}"
+    done
+  done
+}
+
+BLA::start_loading_animation() {
+  BLA_active_loading_animation=( "${@}" )
+  # Extract the delay between each frame from array BLA_active_loading_animation
+  BLA_loading_animation_frame_interval="${BLA_active_loading_animation[0]}"
+  unset "BLA_active_loading_animation[0]"
+  tput civis # Hide the terminal cursor
+  BLA::play_loading_animation_loop &
+  BLA_loading_animation_pid="${!}"
+}
+
+BLA::stop_loading_animation() {
+  kill "${BLA_loading_animation_pid}" &> /dev/null
+  printf "\n"
+  tput cnorm # Restore the terminal cursor
+}
+
+
+###############################################################################
+################################# USAGE GUIDE #################################
+###############################################################################
+################## Read below for the explanations on how to ##################
+################### show loading animations in your script. ###################
+###############################################################################
+
+:<<'EXAMPLES'
+
+## Put these lines at the top of your script:
+## (replace /path/to/bash_loading_animations.sh with the appropriate filepath)
+# Load in the functions and animations
+source /path/to/bash_loading_animations.sh
+# Run BLA::stop_loading_animation if the script is interrupted
+trap BLA::stop_loading_animation SIGINT
+
+# Show a loading animation for the command "foo"
+BLA::start_loading_animation "${BLA_name_of_the_animation[@]}"
+foo
+BLA::stop_loading_animation
+
+# If foo prints some output in the terminal, you may want to add:
+foo 1> /dev/null # hide standard output
+# or
+foo 2> /dev/null # hide error messages
+# or
+foo &> /dev/null # hide all output
+
+EXAMPLES
diff --git a/server-properties/helpers/loading/loading.txt b/server-properties/helpers/loading/loading.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f7d296
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server-properties/helpers/loading/loading.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+
+▗▖    ▗▄▖ ▗▖ ▗▖▗▖  ▗▖ ▗▄▄▖▗▖ ▗▖▗▄▄▄▖▗▖  ▗▖ ▗▄▄▖
+▐▌   ▐▌ ▐▌▐▌ ▐▌▐▛▚▖▐▌▐▌   ▐▌ ▐▌  █  ▐▛▚▖▐▌▐▌   
+▐▌   ▐▛▀▜▌▐▌ ▐▌▐▌ ▝▜▌▐▌   ▐▛▀▜▌  █  ▐▌ ▝▜▌▐▌▝▜▌
+▐▙▄▄▖▐▌ ▐▌▝▚▄▞▘▐▌  ▐▌▝▚▄▄▖▐▌ ▐▌▗▄█▄▖▐▌  ▐▌▝▚▄▞▘
+
+
diff --git a/server-properties/helpers/splash__creative.txt b/server-properties/helpers/splash__creative.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be3ba77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server-properties/helpers/splash__creative.txt
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+
+
+
+
+
+
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diff --git a/server-properties/helpers/splash__smp.txt b/server-properties/helpers/splash__smp.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4495c1
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diff --git a/server-properties/start.sh b/server-properties/start.sh
index 4de8967..e34183d 100755
--- a/server-properties/start.sh
+++ b/server-properties/start.sh
@@ -3,33 +3,127 @@
 fileName="fabric-1.21.1.jar"
 memory=8192
 configPath="./config"
+datapackPath="./world/datapack/"
 serverConfigDir="server-properties"
 packwizPath="https://files.ferdin.land/ferdinland/modpacks/server/smp/"
+loading_text="./config/server-properties/helpers/loading/loading.txt"
+splash_smp="./config/server-properties/helpers/splash_smp.txt"
+splash_creative="./config/server-properties/helpers/splash_creative.txt"
 
-# Install git if it's not installed
-export git=$(which git)
-if [ -z $git ]
-then
-	echo installing git...
-	echo | sudo -S apt install git
-else
-	echo git is already installed
-fi
+# import env
+source ./.env
+# import loading screen
+source ./config/server-properties/helpers/loading/bash_loading_animations.sh
 
+# loading 
+echo "$loading_text"
+BLA::start_loading_animation "${BLA_filling_bar[@]}"
+sleep 1.85
+BLA::stop_loading_animation
+
+# print info
+echo
+echo "==========================="
+echo "======= SERVER INFO ======="
+echo "==========================="
+echo
+echo "SERVER NAME:     | $SERVER_NAME"
+echo "ENVRONMENT:      | $ENV"
+echo "TYPE:            | $SERVER_TYPE"
+echo "CONFIG BRANCH:   | $CONFIG_BRANCH"
+echo "DATAPACK BRANCH: | $DATAPACK_BRANCH"
+echo 
+echo "==========================="
+echo "======= +++++++++++ ======="
+echo "==========================="
+echo 
+echo
+echo "setting up $ENV environment..."
+
+#
 # Update config directory
-(cd "$configPath" && git pull)
+#
+echo "updating ./config..."
+(
+cd "$configPath"
+initial_branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+if [[ "$CONFIG_BRANCH" != "$initial_branch" ]]; then
+	echo
+	echo -e "\e[31m./config is on branch '$initial_branch', but '$CONFIG_BRANCH' was requested\e[0m"
+	echo "switching to '$CONFIG_BRANCH'..."
 
+	git checkout $CONFIG_BRANCH
+
+	echo
+fi
+git pull
+)
+
+#
+# Update datapacks
+#
+echo "updating datapack..."
+(
+cd "$datapackPath/smp-datapack"
+initial_branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+if [[ "$CONFIG_BRANCH" != "$initial_branch" ]]; then
+	echo
+	echo -e "\e[31mDatapack is on branch '$initial_branch', but '$DATAPACK_BRANCH' was requested\e[0m"
+	echo "switching to '$DATAPACK_BRANCH'..."
+
+	git checkout $DATAPACK_BRANCH
+
+	echo
+fi
+git pull
+)
+
+#
 # Copy server-properties
+#
+echo
 echo copying server.properties...
 cp --force "$configPath"/"$serverConfigDir"/server.properties ./server.properties
+#
 # Copy server-icon.png
+#
 echo copying server-icon.png...
 cp --force "$configPath"/"$serverConfigDir"/server.properties ./server-icon.png
 
 #
+# manage mods
+#
+echo
 echo installing mods from "$packwizPath"/pack.toml...
+echo
 java -jar packwiz-installer-bootstrap.jar -g -s server "$packwizPath"/pack.toml
 
+#
+# start server
+#
+echo
+echo "starting the server..."
+echo
+case "$SERVER_TYPE" in
+	smp)
+		echo "$splash_smp"
+		;;
+	creative)
+		echo "$splash_creative"
+		;;
+	personal)
+		echo
+		echo
+		echo "============================================"
+		echo
+		echo "  Welcome to your server, $PERSONAL_OWNER!"
+		echo
+		echo "============================================"
+		echo
+		echo
+		;;
+esac
+
 declare -i memory
 
 java -Xms"$memory"M -Xmx"$memory"M -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+AlwaysActAsServerClassMachine -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+UseNUMA -XX:NmethodSweepActivity=1 -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=400M -XX:NonNMethodCodeHeapSize=12M -XX:ProfiledCodeHeapSize=194M -XX:NonProfiledCodeHeapSize=194M -XX:-DontCompileHugeMethods -XX:MaxNodeLimit=240000 -XX:NodeLimitFudgeFactor=8000 -XX:+UseVectorCmov -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem -XX:+UseFastUnorderedTimeStamps -XX:+UseCriticalJavaThreadPriority -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=1 -XX:AllocatePrefetchStyle=3 -XX:+UseZGC -XX:AllocatePrefetchStyle=1 -XX:-ZProactive -jar "$fileName" --nogui
diff --git a/server-properties/test.sh b/server-properties/test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53b2610
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server-properties/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+source ./server-properties/helpers/loading/bash_loading_animations.sh
+
+BLA::start_loading_animation "${BLA_filling_bar[@]}"
+sleep 1.85
+BLA::stop_loading_animation