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by TedDoesntTalk 1522 days ago
> how many Minecraft servers are out there? Drumroll, please...

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Jamie9912 1522 days ago
On IPv4, running on port 25565, which were online at the time of being scanned
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lostlogin 1522 days ago
… and were publicly accessible.
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glowingly 1522 days ago
and were Java servers. Bedrock not included (runs on a different port over UDP only). Probably not including any Java or Bedrock Realms (official MSFT servers), who likely seat all access behind an authenticated gateway of some sort.

For extra fun, is a wiki.vg page trying to accumulate documentation on the Bedrock UDP interface. https://wiki.vg/Bedrock_Protocol

This is still a neat sample of Java Minecraft servers.

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lostlogin 1522 days ago
Absolutely.

I wonder how many servers are completely hidden. I’d love an easier way of making a server that wasn’t accessible to the world at large.

It isn’t so much that setting up the VPN is painful, but helping a kid install the software over the phone with no tech-savvy parent around is hard.

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