FAQ about The Best Minecraft Servers Catalog

The main idea of The Best Minecraft Servers Catalog is to collect and provide some statistics about Minecraft servers usage. So no any other catalogs has such neat statistics on Minecraft servers and players.

Another main point is to create ranging for that vast amount of Minecraft servers. Thus we have our own ranging formula to define server coolness.

Third big reason is a price of an advertising. Other catalogs are over expensive for usual, average Minecraft server hoster. So withing TBMCS catalog any user can afford to highlight his server among thousands others.

Also we have great search system to filter through Minecraft servers. You able to search and filter by game mods, server version, type and country.

No annoying advertising. At all.

We are open to any your ideas, suggestions and critics. Please, don't hesitate to use our feedback form to tell us anything.

On the one hand this catalog intended for gamers, who wants to find another Minecraft server with non-standard gameplay or plugins, filter servers by different criteria, watch preview of world they provide.

On the another hand this catalog is for server owners, who would attract new gamers by their new (or old) server, or build their own representation on the web.

Yes. It is completely free for gamers and server owners as well. However for a certain and not large fee server owners could get some extra functionality.

Payment is way to claim ownership on your server and get full control on it in case your server is already in our catalog. Just enter ip address or domain of existed server in creating server form, submit it and you will be redirected to payment page for that server. After payment server record is completely yours.

Also, payment is a way to increase visibility of your server at our site. It recalculates rank to be max(ranks)+1, thus your server appears on the top of main page and top of search requests (of course if it matches search criteria). However it will not stay at first place forever - rank will be gradually decrease to its initial value in 30 days period. Also, if someone will pay his server after yours, then this new server will appears at the top.

Besides ranking up your server will be highlighted with ⭐ superstar symbol until it have improved rank.

Rank is a number of points that we assign to server to show its quality or interestingness. The better quality of server the higher rank.

We recalculate ranks every day at 12a.m. UTC. Factors influencing rank: maximum active players amount in past day, uptime, Minecraft version popularity between other servers, presence of icon and banner, domain name instead of bare IP address and some others. Full formula is quite complicated and there is no sense to fully describe it.

In sum, to improve rank make good representation of your server in catalog and bring some players.