diff --git a/docs/misc/healthcheck.md b/docs/misc/healthcheck.md
index 920d5d52..1b364ffa 100644
--- a/docs/misc/healthcheck.md
+++ b/docs/misc/healthcheck.md
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED
 b418af073764        mc                  "/start"            43 seconds ago      Up 41 seconds (healthy)   0.0.0.0:25565->25565/tcp, 25575/tcp   mc
 ```
 
-You can also query the container's health in a script friendly way:
+You can also query the container's health in a script-friendly way:
 
 ``` shell
 > docker container inspect -f "{{.State.Health.Status}}" mc
 healthy
 ```
 
-There's actually a wrapper script called `mc-health` that takes care of calling `mc-monitor status` with the correct arguments. If needing to customize the health checks parameters, such as in a compose file, then use something like the following in the service declaration:
+There's actually a wrapper script called `mc-health` that takes care of calling `mc-monitor status` with the correct arguments. If needing to customize the health checks parameters, such as in a Compose file, then use something like the following in the service declaration:
 
 ``` yaml
 healthcheck:
@@ -24,9 +24,16 @@ healthcheck:
   retries: 20
 ```
 
-Some orchestration systems, such as Portainer, don't allow for disabling the default `HEALTHCHECK` declared by this image. In those cases you can approximate the disabling of healthchecks by setting the environment variable `DISABLE_HEALTHCHECK` to `true`.
+Some orchestration systems, such as Portainer, don't allow for disabling the default `HEALTHCHECK` declared by this image. In those cases you can approximate the disabling of health checks by setting the environment variable `DISABLE_HEALTHCHECK` to `true`.
 
-### Healthchecks for older versions
+The [health check in a Compose service declaration](https://docs.docker.com/reference/compose-file/services/#healthcheck) can also be disabled using:
 
-This container disables Healthchecks for Versions before b1.8 as those versions do not support any kind of server pinging.
-For more information see [Server List Ping](https://wiki.vg/Server_List_Ping#Beta_1.8_to_1.3)
+```yaml
+    healthcheck:
+      disable: true
+      test: ["NONE"]
+```
+
+### Health checks for older versions
+
+This container disables health checks for Minecraft versions before b1.8 as those versions do not support any kind of server pinging. For more information see [Server List Ping](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_protocol/Server_List_Ping#Beta_1.8_to_1.3).
diff --git a/examples/ftba/compose.yml b/examples/ftba/compose.yml
index ed910d03..95d625aa 100644
--- a/examples/ftba/compose.yml
+++ b/examples/ftba/compose.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ services:
       # Use Pack ID from https://www.feed-the-beast.com/modpacks/119-ftb-presents-direwolf20-120?tab=about
       FTB_MODPACK_ID: "119"
 #      FTB_MODPACK_VERSION_ID: ""
+      MOTD: |
+        An FTB server running
+        %MODPACK_NAME% version %MODPACK_VERSION%
       MEMORY: 4G
     volumes:
       # use a named, managed volume for data volume
diff --git a/scripts/start-deployFTBA b/scripts/start-deployFTBA
index 8ebcf50b..ba020e03 100755
--- a/scripts/start-deployFTBA
+++ b/scripts/start-deployFTBA
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ function getModLoaderVersion() {
 function getMinecraftVersion() {
   jq -r ".modPackTargets.mcVersion" ${ftbManifest}
 }
+function getModpackName() {
+  jq -r ".name" ${ftbManifest}
+}
+function getModpackVersion() {
+  jq -r ".versionName" ${ftbManifest}
+}
 
 if [[ $(getDistro) = alpine ]]; then
   logError "The FTBA installer is not supported on Alpine. Use the java8-multiarch image tag instead."
@@ -102,7 +108,9 @@ modLoader="$(getModLoaderName)"
 modLoaderVersion="$(getModLoaderVersion)"
 mcVersion=$(getMinecraftVersion)
 VERSION="$mcVersion"
-export VERSION
+MODPACK_NAME=$(getModpackName)
+MODPACK_VERSION=$(getModpackVersion)
+export VERSION MODPACK_NAME MODPACK_VERSION
 
 variants=(
   run.sh