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Bedrock or Java: Which Minecraft Servers You Can Actually Join
Two editions, two ecosystems, and one of the most common reasons a server refuses to let someone in. Which is which, and what crossplay really costs.
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Minecraft Community Servers: The Complete Guide
The largest and hardest section of any server list. What Minecraft server types mean, how to read a listing, and how to pick one that suits you.
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Finding a Server Playing the Map You Want
Map rotations, the difference between what a server is playing and what it plays, and how to find the one running your map tonight.
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Steam Favourites and Server History: The Feature Everyone Forgets
The server browser remembers everywhere you have been. How to use history and favourites properly, and why they beat searching again.
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Rust Servers: The Complete Guide
Wipe schedules, modded versus vanilla, group limits and population size. The four decisions that determine whether a Rust server suits you.
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Your First Community Server: What Changes
Leaving matchmaking changes the rules, the admins and the social contract. What is better, what is worse, and what goes wrong in week one.
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How to Tell a Dying Server From a Quiet One
Two people online at 3am could be a small community or the last of forty. Five signals that separate a dying server from a quiet one, all visible up front.
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What a Server List Measures, and What It Refuses To
Where the numbers come from, why an unmeasured hour is left empty rather than filled in, and the figures deliberately not published.
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What a Player Count on a Server List Really Tells You
Bots, reserved slots, idle connections and a number sampled minutes ago. What the figure is, and the three ways it gets inflated.
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Peak Hours: When a Server Is Actually Worth Joining
Every server has a shape to its day, set by the timezone of the people who built it. Reading it opens up most of the directory.
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Surf Servers Explained
A physics quirk from 2003 that became a discipline with its own maps, tiers and world records. What surf is, and where to start.
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FiveM Servers: The Complete Guide
How FiveM differs from every other server on a list, what a framework decides about how you play, and how to pick from thousands of roleplay servers.
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