A Census of Minecraft Servers

One thing the author may have missed here because I didn’t see it mentioned: this also misses any servers not hosted on the default port of 25565. I don’t know how common this really is, but Minecraft has SRV record support, and for those of us running more than one Minecraft server on a single box it’s likely at least one will be on a different port.

Our Minecraft server is spun up only when we play, with a simple bespoke front-end that allows any Cognito-authenticated user to start or stop the AWS instance. The dashboard also shows an auto-updated leaderboard with some in-game stats (death count, miles traveled, last login and so on), stored in DynamoDB and periodically updated by a cron job on the server. I also planned to add a map of the spawn, but not sure if that’ll happen.<p>We have not played since MS started effectively requiring a phone number from every Minecraft player.

I... kinda can&#x27;t believe that one of my libraries (Forgelin) is the second most common mod on all Minecraft servers. It doesn&#x27;t support the five most recent versions of the game and I haven&#x27;t touched it in years. I guess there are a lot of other mods (or a few really popular ones) for somewhat older versions that use Kotlin.

I’m kind of amazed that you can still do massive scans like this and not face some bad consequences like getting blocked somewhere, or having your hosting provider get very annoyed at you.

The most interesting part of this to me was the list of top mods by popularity. But when I looked a lot of them seemed for much older Minecraft versions or for old versions of the mods. For instance &quot;Pam&#x27;s HarvestCraft&quot; is mentioned but that&#x27;s been deprecated in favor of a HarvestCraft 2.<p>Is that just a quirk of how the mod names are reported and folks are really running newer stuff? Are older modded servers still popular? Are the servers themselves mostly old and no longer used?

What a pleasant surprise, I know the author from somewhere else. Small world!<p>Very enjoyable read and even more interesting results. 4 Minecraft servers per 10000 people in Germany is kind of insane to think about.<p>What was the number 2? The author made it sound like it was the US, but that has 4x less

The subtle advertising:<p>&gt; This is probably thanks to cheap hosting offerings from companies like Hetzner (insert link).<p>Conflicts with their own data:<p>- OVH 24,417<p>- QuadraNet 9,927<p>- GPORTAL 9,339<p>- GMO Internet 5,466<p>- Hetzner 5,327<p>For those not in the game server hosting scene, it&#x27;s because OVH offers a robust DDOS system for free for their servers. The price is not much different either. OVH is by far the leader for ALL game servers due to DDOS protection, price, and value. Hetzner is good, but OVH is a league of it&#x27;s own.

What&#x27;s up with MineTest? Seems like the only issue is some of the mods aren&#x27;t maintained, but other than that, it looks like there&#x27;s some real potential.<p>It would be interesting to see a similar census, and if it&#x27;s gaining any ground.

&quot;Fun&quot; fact: Microsoft set up Minecraft to be open to everyone by default. Consequence: griefing groups that scan the web and blow the ever living shit of whatever they can find on those random servers (TNT blocks can be supplied by item duplication exploits): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;hoS0PM20KJk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;hoS0PM20KJk</a>

Really good post. It&#x27;s amazing how fast you can scan all of IPv4.<p>I also needed tune SQLite recently for an event logging server, and &quot;PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL&quot; helped a lot.

I&#x27;m surprised that the majority of servers are running an unmodified version of the server software. I had expected the majority of servers to be running a Bukkit-compatible modification at this point.

I guess I should add a &quot;Blog Posts&quot; page to wiki.vg for good quality dev-orientated articles like this.

This article is wonderful, I love the working knowledge. A lot of the idea feels similar to the recent Tom7 Harder Drive video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;JcJSW7Rprio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;JcJSW7Rprio</a><p>I had never seen some of this IP charting and stuff and in his video he does a lot of similar stuff.

It depends on what server you want to play. It is not hard to download a pirated version of Minecraft and play it without paying. But, if you do it, you won&#x27;t have access to most online servers available on the internet. In my opinion, the best thing to do is to buy it. After that, you can download any server you want from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;servers-minecraft.net&#x2F;minecraft-bedwars-servers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;servers-minecraft.net&#x2F;minecraft-bedwars-servers</a> . Check it out by yourself. I am sure you won&#x27;t be disappointed about it. Also, you can build your server here.

&gt; how many Minecraft servers are out there? Drumroll, please...<p>160,992

a few dozen transactions a second seems horrendously slow no matter what is going on under the hood there.

Do ISP block this sort of mass scanning? Seems like something that is easy to detect and block.