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Growing a server and earning from it
Where to find players, server lists and voting, monetization within Minecraft's rules, a community on Discord.
- How to promote a Minecraft server and keep playersServer lists, Discord, videos and word of mouth bring players in; a clear idea, a first ten minutes without confusion, visible rules and fair play make them stay. Here are the channels that bring players, Mojang's rules on the Minecraft name and on sponsored videos, and what makes a newcomer come back tomorrow.8 min read
- Minecraft server lists: where to list your server and climb the rankingsServer lists are directories where players find a server by game mode and version and vote for their favorites. We compare international and Russian-speaking lists using their own pages: vote rewards and Votifier, what it takes to add a server, voting rules and paid promotion. Plus how to write the listing and how to tell where your players come from.12 min read
- NuVotifier: votes from server lists and rewardsWhen a player votes for your server on a server list, the site can tell your server about it over the Votifier protocol. The NuVotifier plugin receives the vote and a separate listener plugin hands out the reward. Here's the setup, keys and tokens, vote forwarding on a network and what to open in the firewall.8 min read
- Minecraft server donation stores: the best webstores in 2026A donation store is a webstore where a player pays and the server hands out the purchase by itself. We compare services using their own official pages: PayNow and Tebex for international servers, and CloudDonate, EasyDonate, Millida Trade and TradeMC for Russian-speaking ones. Plus plugin versus RCON delivery, secret keys, test purchases, refunds and Mojang's rules.12 min read
- How to set up paid ranks on a Minecraft serverA paid rank is a group in your permissions plugin: a prefix, a name color and conveniences a player gets for buying it. Below is a ready VIP → Premium → Elite setup in LuckPerms: groups and inheritance, prefixes, monthly ranks, upgrades along a track, the commands for your webstore, and the Mojang rules that decide what a rank may include.10 min read
- Minecraft server monetization: what you may sell under Mojang's rulesYou can make money with a Minecraft server, but within the Minecraft Usage Guidelines: cosmetics, paid access, donations and perks without a gameplay advantage are fine; advantages for money, capes and currency with real-world value are not. Here's what the rules say as of October 2026, what stays a grey area and what a violation can cost.8 min read
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