Servers

The Servers page is a saved list of multiplayer addresses with live state: whether each one is answering, how many people are on, what version it runs and how far away it is.

Adding a server

1. Press Add server, or use the quick-connect field to check an address before saving it.
2. Type the address. A plain domain works — donutsmp.net is a valid address and does not need a play. prefix or a port. A port is only needed when the server is not on the default one, and is written example.net:25566.
3. Press Check. The launcher pings the address and shows what answered: the MOTD, the player count, the version and the latency.
4. Give it a name and save. The address that gets saved is the one the ping resolved to, not always the one you typed.

What a ping tells you

Groups and sorting

The list organises itself: favourites first, then servers people are actually on, then the ones you played recently, then reachable-and-empty, then the ones that did not answer. You can also tag servers and filter by tag, which is what makes a list of forty useful.

Joining without the launcher's server list

Minecraft itself keeps its own server list, and the two are separate on purpose — one is the launcher's address book, the other is the game's. To jump straight into a server's world menu on launch, set Join this server on launch in the instance editor; the address is passed to the game as --server.

Finding servers

The directory search queries a public server-list API, so the results include servers you have never heard of, filtered by version and by whether they are online right now. Results show the MOTD and player count before you add anything.