Minigames Server List

Minigames servers are the arcade end of Minecraft. Instead of one world you keep forever, you land in a hub, pick a mode from a portal or a compass in your hotbar, and get dropped into a short match with a scoreboard and a winner. Ten minutes later it is over, everyone is back in the lobby, and you queue for the next one.

The formats are close to standard across networks, which makes them worth learning once. BedWars puts four or eight teams on their own islands and gives each of them a bed that acts as their respawn, so the game is really about breaking beds rather than killing players. SkyWars is the same shape with no bed, one chest and about forty seconds before the first bridges land. Murder Mystery hides one killer and one bow in a lobby of innocents, Build Battle scores you on a theme, and TNT Run, Spleef, Duels and parkour courses fill out the rest of the hub. Most networks add a party system so a group can drop into whatever you pick together.

What separates the servers on this board is not the length of the mode list, it is the queue behind it. A good Minigames server starts a game in under a minute at the hours you play, keeps ranked and casual queues from splitting one small player base in half, sells cosmetics instead of kits, and runs an anticheat that holds up in a bridging fight. The servers at the top are there because their players keep coming back and voting for them.