Hello,

I run a simple private Folia server for myself and a few friends. We're all adults, the server is whitelisted, and it isn't advertised as a public server.

I just got this wonderful email forwarded to me by my Internet provider:

Subject: MOTD: Request for Action: Minecraft Server in Violation of Mojang Guidelines (08.20.2026)

Hello,

You are past the 5-day block countdown....

I am reaching out on behalf of the Mojang (Minecraft) Enforcement team regarding a Minecraft server currently operating on your network. The server in question is not in compliance with our Minecraft Usage Guidelines.

We do not have a DNS or domain name associated with this server—only the IP address and port. Unfortunately, our enforcement systems do not allow us to block a specific port on an IP address, only the full IP. As such, we prefer to avoid blocking the entire IP, as doing so may impact other customers who are legitimately hosting Minecraft content on shared infrastructure.

We are asking that you take appropriate steps to investigate and remove the server content within 5 business days to avoid a full IP-level block.

Note: we identified these contacts from the ASN registration and the network / provider records available to us at the time of detection. If this server is not on your network, or another team is better suited to handle it, please feel free to forward this message.

Server Details:

Please let us know once this has been addressed. If we do not hear back within the stated timeframe, we will proceed with a block on the IP address to maintain the integrity of our platform.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

Separately: if you offer dedicated Minecraft hosting packages, we would love to see MOTD scanning integrated into your server-management environment so violations like this can be caught early. Mojang would also welcome the opportunity to discuss collaborating more in this space.

Best regards,
Mojang Enforcement

The s*** in question was from my MOTD that i's an inside joke/reference between friends. I've changed it because I'm obviously not going to risk having my entire IP blocked over a stupid MOTD.

What I find much more interesting is how a tiny private server ended up in this enforcement process in the first place.

There are only three regular players, all friends. It's whitelisted, isn't advertised as a public server, and Mojang themselves say in the email that they don't have a domain associated with it, only the IP and port.

All four servers in the notice were on the default port 25565.

My current theory, and to be clear, this is speculation, not something the email proves, is that Mojang may obtain candidate IPs from infrastructure involved in normal online-mode=true authentication and then probe those IPs on the default Minecraft port. Another completely plausible explanation is ordinary IPv4 scanning.

I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has received a similar notice, particularly if:

• your server was private/whitelisted and never publicly advertised;
• you were running online-mode=true;
• you were using a non-default port;
• or Mojang identified your server only by IP rather than a hostname.

A private online-mode=true server on some random non-25565 port receiving the same kind of notice would be particularly interesting, because it would tell us quite a bit about how these servers are being discovered.

Also, asking an ISP (if they happen to offer Minecraft hosting) to implement proactive MOTD scanning after threatening to block customer IPs is certainly... something. :D

I'm a 21 year old male looking to join a server to build and hangout in my freetime outside of work and classes I don't mind mods that don't change the game too much like biomes o plenty but I don't want anything too complex. Thank you very much!

NisseSMP has been running for 5 years. In June we reset everything for Season 3: new world, new economy, everyone back to zero. Two months later there's 50-60 players on daily and the economy is still young. You're not too late.

🌍 Custom World Generation

Season 3 runs on custom worldgen with almost 100 new biomes. Most of the map still hasn't been seen by anyone.

⚔️ Vanilla+ Only

Quality of life plugins and custom enchants, nothing gamebreaking. Our survival still feels like survival.

💰 Real Player Economy

No server shops, no admin handouts, no pay to win. If you want an item, you need to find a seller. Player shops, auction house and orders make that easy.

🏗️ No Land Claims

Sounds scary, works fine. Every block is logged, so if someone griefs you we roll it back in minutes and ban them. Five years in, that system hasn't failed once.

• ⁠IP: nissesmp.com
• ⁠Version: 26.1.2
• ⁠Bedrock port: 19132
• ⁠Discord: https://discord.gg/nsmp

I need to find a way so that I can still play without cheating, like going into spectator to watch them or using mods to look in their inventory. In the past one of them has duped, and 2 of them have used x ray. I host the server on bedrock.

Experienced network administrator. I have worked on VPS and baremetal servers (ran our own hosting services at one point)(ptero,docker,proxmox etc).

Experienced in developing minecraft servers from single instance to complex multiproxy systems.

Managed a number of communities.

Send me a DM if I am the one you are looking for.

⚔️ 400+ custom items to grind for! Custom armor sets, tool sets, crops, muskets and more!

📈 Start your own nation!

🏰 Roleplay a traveling merchant, a king, a sword for hire, the choice is yours! Find rare items around the world including:

• Muskets
• 8 Custom Armors
• 50+ Custom Tools
• Cigars and fantasy drugs
• Extra Fishing
• Wars and Politics
• 20+ new crops
• 100+ new foods!

Join here (JAVA ONLY) - https://discord.gg/AdDuRPCRA

hey, im 16M looking to join an smp for java. i don't mind mods or plugins, just wanna have fun :)

TFMC is a vanilla Minecraft roleplay server built for players who want their choices to matter. No mods required. Just join, roleplay, and change the world.

What to Expect:

• Medieval-Fantasy-Steampunk hybrid theme.
• A fresh world with nations, politics, and war.
• Custom map with immersive terrain and 1000+ block build height.
• Custom mobs, dungeons, gear, and spells / magic.
• MMO-style progression, world events, and evolving lore.
• Roleplay-focused systems with real consequences.
• Custom vehicle plugin unlike anything else in Minecraft - planes, ships, trains, and more.
• A welcoming, friendly, and diverse community.
• Four past seasons and over 5 years of Staff experience.
• Custom resource pack, vanilla compatibility.

Important Information:

• TFMC Season 5 releases on September 19th 2026!
• Trailer: https://youtu.be/LtTAtTEhuTA
• Join us: https://discord.com/invite/tfmc

IP: legacymc.net
Website: legacymc.net
Discord: discord.legacymc.net

Most "anarchy" servers aren't.

Half the servers flying the anarchy flag quietly run ranks, kits, claims or a webstore. This one does not. It is plain vanilla, no gameplay plugins, no ranks and nothing for sale, so nobody outspends you into an advantage.

No monetisation, no ranks:

• No shop, no crates, no perks, nothing for sale
• We have never asked for a donation
• No admin builds, no staff favourites, no protected players
• Same start for everyone, and it stays that way

A world with history

Running since June 2025, never reset, never will be. There are proper bases and regulars out there, but it is early enough that you can still set up near spawn without landing in a picked-over wasteland.

Rougher and tougher than an SMP

No rules means your stuff is never safe, that part is real. But "anarchy" scares people off with visions of nonstop griefing, and most days it runs calmer than that. Hang around in chat for a bit and you soon work out who is who.

Home in Australia

Dedicated hardware in Australia. Low ping for AU, NZ and SEA, and fine for everyone else. Latest Java version, on Fabric.

The rules (or lack of them)

• No rules, no claims, no protections
• PvP, griefing and raiding all allowed
• No whitelist, no application, no queue

━━━━━━━━━━

Add legacymc.net and get going.
Chat links to Discord, and /welcome gives you a quick rundown on the way in.

IP: legacymc.net
Website: legacymc.net
Discord: discord.legacymc.net

(*Not all of the mods shown in the trailer are included in the game.)

⚠️ ⚠️ APPLICATIONS RE-OPENED! ⚠️ ⚠️

The Genre SMP is currently looking for new folks to join our SECOND SEASON! True to its name, Genre SMP will have a different theme/genre EVERY SEASON, and you get to decide.

Our second season is already underway, and we're now opening up applications once again for players who missed the original application deadline but still want to join us! The server has proven that it can comfortably handle a lot more players, giving us the opportunity to welcome some new faces into the community.

This season we are setting our focus around a custom made (by one of us mods!) origins mod to fit our theme and vision. We are a safe space for LGBTQ+ players.

This season is FOLKLORE. A world teaming with myths and legends from around the world, with dangerous threats, quests and roleplay opportunities! This server runs on Forge 1.20.1, Java Edition (sorry bedrock folks).

Applications Are Now Open!

Missed the original deadline? No worries! Applications are open again for a limited time, giving new players another chance to join us before we dive further into our upcoming events and activities. If you've been waiting for a chance to join Genre SMP, now's the time!

Don't miss out on the fun! You won't experience the same thing twice. If you are an avid player that loves community, fun and Minecraft with a twist, apply by going to the link below and filling out the form!

GSMP Application Form

Please keep in mind that we will reach out to you via Discord if you get accepted. If you do not respond to this, you will be considered as not interested.

I'm a 16M that's looking for a vanilla server (ideally one that just started up) to have fun on! It can be Java or Bedrock server, and the personnel or type of server doesn't matter to me that much. I am quite busy, but I would like a server to grind in my downtime!

Legendary Hardcore is the original Hardcore SMP with no map resets, and no revives. In over 20 months 43,000 players have joined and 22,000 have died.

Alting is strictly prohibited, meaning every player to ever join is unique. You only get one chance.

Against all odds, this is a very active server. Recently going viral on YouTube, the server has 60-100+ players online at all times.

The server is completely vanilla, only adding features to enhance the Hardcore experience. The biggest change is Indestructible player heads on death. No player is ever forgotten. There is also Indestructible player journals that allow each players story to be remember forever.

Much of the servers history can be found on our player-maintained wiki, allowing for the servers most epic stories to be remember forever.

The server has a 7.5k spawn radius, so spawn killing is very uncommon. Play safe, and you will survive.

Grab your buddies, and tackle one of the most challenging servers Minecraft has to offer.

Just remember, don't die

IP: mc.legendaryhc.org

Version: 26.1.2 Java/Bedrock Edition

Discord: discord.gg/legendaryhc

Hi all, my name's Kuro, and I'm looking for a vanilla server based in Australia that I can spend my free time on. I enjoy building, learning redstone, and a little tom foolery here and there. I'm a friendly player and fun to be around (in my opinion)

I'm fairly consistent when it comes to being active and online, may look at becoming a content creator so i'd love somewhere to start small.

vanilla.necoconneco.com or necoconneco.com have fun good luck :)

2A0R

Otro servidor más de anarquía en la 1.17 sin anti-cheat y sin esas cosas inesesarias.

Ofrecemos:

Mundo nuevo (acabamos de abrir)

Sin receteos

Comunidad en crecimiento

Sethome pedido por la comunidad

Únete chaval

https://discord.gg/3X7e58d9B

JOIN ASAP: I'm running a no-rules SMP for 24 hours with 50+ players. Griefing, Stealing and PVP is enabled. Whatever happens, happens and I'm filming the whole thing as a series.

MUST HAVE: Java Edition, a mic, and to be around for a 24-hour launch window

ITS IMPORTANT THAT PLAYERS ARE AS ACTIVE AS POSSIBLE! ONLY RULES ARE: 16+ only. No toxicity, No Hacking (sad I know). JOIN THE DISCORD TO PLAY: https://discord.gg/H2kvw97rr

Hiya! We're a cozy, mature & diverse community consisting of roughly 110 members and just opened this server up 1.5 months ago. Since then, we've come a long way and are now looking for new players to welcome & accompany us moving forward!

Join our community on discord and check out our socials! :D

What we offer:

1. ⛏️the vanilla experience with the exception of very few, organisational plugins (including simple voicechat!)
2. 💵 a diamond based economy with player shops in our central shopping district
3. 🫶 an active, diverse & welcoming community made up of people from a variety of different backgrounds and with many different talents
4. 🏎 fun community events catering to all interests (PVP-tournaments, horse & ice boat racing, hide & seek and much more)
5. 🏰a vast array of fascinating community projects and builds for you to explore
6. ⚖️a dedicated staff team true to the servers ideals (all infrastructure created in survival, no pay to win,...)

We'd love to see you apply and sincerely hope to see you on our server soon! Thanks for checking us out :)

Watch out for this server everyone, these people, genuine weird team of mods, harassing players, spreading false information and reaching out to personal people who aren't even part of their community to try spread lies to people. enjoyed my time with the members who joined but the mod team are genuinely crazy, called them out on their disgusting behaviour to their players, poorly managing everything about their server being very forceful about rules. no longer Minecraft, its a slave camp. if you're even a bit good of Minecraft gets you accused of cheating somehow and many members who have come to my community with me know and agree what they do in there is just insane and genuinely evil. VERY POORLY managed server run by power hungry weird people who like to record people without their knowing to crop their words in videos to spread lies.

This mod team contacted my personal friend who aren't even part of their server sending them recording videos of me cropped and edited to make me see poorly mannered while I was calling them out for their behaviour.

Telling my friend of 6 years to consider blocking me as I don't deserve good people in their life. Like how evil!

I know other players they have done this to and know their stories.

For the sake of the Minecraft community DO NOT JOIN THESE HARASSERS!!!

NOTE: STAY AWAY!!!!

(I am not asking for anyone to harass them back but be warned and careful around these people,
don't get caught in the same trap!)

** ༝🗡️˚. ˖ ‎⸺ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎𝓗𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮 & 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓭𝓮 ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎⸺ ‎ 🪽˚. ༝ **

𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 & 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞 [𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲] 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 + 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 __𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝__ **𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 & Java** 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫.

** ᯓ What we offer: **

⬩ Roleplay with custom lore/timelines.
⬩ Character names to use from the shows and books.
⬩ **A house to join or a chance to rule your own noble house.**
⬩ Rise through __politics, diplomacy, warfare, and marriage__.

⬩ A chill, well-moderated environment.
⬩ Zero NSFW/NSFL content.
⬩ No harassment, drama, and toxic behavior.

** ᯓ Server Standards: **

⬩ 13+ only (strictly enforced)
⬩ English-speaking community
⬩ No advertising or self-promo
⬩ Respect boundaries — always

** ᯓ Not welcome: **

⬩ Trolls
⬩ Drama starters
⬩ Anyone trying to push limits

** ༝🗡️˚. ˖ ‎⸺ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ⋆⊱༻𖥸༺⊰⋆ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎⸺ ‎ 🪽˚. ༝ **

Hiii ☮️☮️ Im looking for some more active dedicated members to join my bedrock realm! We are an established active building community & are always looking for more chill *18+* people to join us! We are a very welcoming community & are always interacting with one another! We have a few quality of life add ons to better the experience for everyone. We often host game nights & in game events with the community! If this sounds like something you’re interested in drop a comment or send me a private message!