How To Get Players on Your Minecraft Server

Hey everyone and welcome back to the breakdown today we’re going to be showing you or not showing you but talking about how to get players on your minecraft server we’re going through a few different methods and right up front i’ll just say it’s difficult to get

Players on a minecraft server it is very very easy to start a minecraft server the hard part is getting people to play on that server now for the most part in this video actually completely through this video we are talking about servers that are meant to be public servers

Meant for anybody and everybody to kind of join them you know whether their survival faction skyblock doesn’t matter minigames doesn’t matter these are public focus servers and because of that we recommend using apex minecraft hosting who’s happy to sponsor this video at the first link down below the

Big down to xyz slash apex to start your minecraft server we actually host our own public server planoutbreakdowncraft.com on apex minecraft hosting so if you want to start your own minecraft server that is public and for meant for anybody and everybody to join you can start apex of

The first link down below the breakdown xyz slash apex to get your server up and running they are set up to be able to handle ddos protection as well as just being a public server in general so nonetheless though how can you get players on your public minecraft server

Well first foremost ask your friends ask your family get the people you know personally on the server that’s the first step the first thing that you can do is get the people that you know that you may play on other servers with things like that onto your minecraft

Server that’s going to be your friends your family people who you talk to on a regular basis getting these people on your server and then getting the people that they know on the server and getting and then getting the people that they know on their server is word of mouth

Growing and that’s one of the biggest ways to actually start growing a minecraft server right if you get three people on the server and then they each get three people on the server you can see how the server can really start to grow from that point right now

Eventually so many cycles you get to the point where there’s no new people to invite and all that stuff it is what it is but getting to 20 players consistently at peak hours with this method is not unheard of and very very possible for a lot of people especially

If you know a lot of people or you know people who know a lot of people who play minecraft so medicine that is the first thing that i would recommend and that’s how most servers start they start by just basically referrals from friends of friends and your friends and things like

That that’s the first way to get players on your minecraft server just invite your friends and family next up though i do want to talk about voting sites this is a way that can get some people onto your server and i’ve seen people say that voting sites don’t do anything but

I personally at breakdown craft we have seen the results of voting sites and some of the top servers out there are the top servers out there because of the voting side so make sure you are set up on voting sites we do have in the description down below a few different

Voting sites linked specifically for different voting sites we don’t have really any affiliation with them breakdown craft is on all of those but other than that they’re not asking to be in this video or anything those are just ones that we use with breakdown craft there are probably better ones out there

So look for other voting sites add yourself to them but the most important thing is whenever you add voting sites you have to encourage players to vote on them that’s going to give them a reward for voting voting keys can do this other awards can do this some servers have

Voting ranks and things like that that you get ranks as you vote different stuff like that you need an incentive to basically play and vote on for the server as a player right a random player has no benefit to vote from the server unless they get something from voting and

That’s why there’s so many different voting reward plugins and things like that out there to do that adding in vote party can also be cool and help incentivize voting so tons of different stuff there that you can do but make sure you do give a reward for voting on

The voting sites that you do choose to add from there let’s go ahead and move on to youtube youtube is the primary way that we grow at breakdown craft specifically through the videos like the one you’re watching right now however you can also work with youtubers to add

Your server to their content whatever that is get them to play on your server get them to you know post videos and shout out your server as like a you know pre-roll ad different things like that now this is going to cost money and we’ve now quickly stepped into the pay

To basically get in front of eyes sort of running a minecraft server it’s just like any other business in all honesty where you need to promote your server and sometimes paid advertising is how you’re gonna have to do that some youtubers will work with you for just a

Rank on your server or something like that but the really big you know once you start to get past probably 50 000 subscribers on a youtube channel you’re gonna need to offer some other incentive other than a rank to be able to get them to play on your server and that’s going

To be some sort of monetary conversation i’m not going to get into how much you should be paying for xyz influence or anything like that because everybody’s pricing is different but you should see a net return in player numbers and honestly in revenue to justify the advertising so if you spend a hundred

Dollars on advertising you should at least make a hundred if not more than that right you should honestly profit of the advertising you spent so if you’re giving influence or a hundred dollars you should probably expect to make 120 back from that from your server’s store moving on from that paid advertising

Though on youtube you can by the way start free advertising on youtube like we did like start a youtube channel and then provide value to people provide fun content things like that and then reap rewards back from that on the server so that is one thing that you can do as

Well um if you do want to do that that’s a great way to get started just know that you’re also you know getting into youtube and that is a whole other bucket of worms in regards to how long it takes to grow it’s very very much so a slow growth

Sort of method but it can reap great rewards in the long term so from there though let’s move on to another free method which is reddit now in the description down below we have the mc servers reddit and it’s basically similar to my minecraft server list but

You can go over there post your server and basically pitch yourself give a little elevator pitch for your minecraft server and you might net a few players off of that i’ve seen some servers that you know have hundreds of players still posting on there and obviously getting some pretty consistent new players from

That so go check that out and make sure you’re posting your server on the mc servers ready as well it’s a great way to get some players and get kind of your server started and it’s not going to cost you anything another free method of basically growing your server is going

To be forms there are tons of different minecraft forms out there in the description we link three specific minecraft forms that you know we kind of recommend but find other ones that you want to post on and the ones in the description down below are by no means

You know they’ll be all end all right but they are a great way to start getting some people onto your server getting your server’s name out there and again getting that first 20 30 players and hopefully getting those people to add their friends to your server so on

And so forth right so that’s where you’re going to be able to start you know getting a few players and that can grow to more if you don’t have people that play on your server that you know friends things like that that only go so far will get players like this and then

Get their friends on the server and that’s a way to continue growing next up i want to talk about something that not a lot of servers do and who knows it may work for you it may not but that is true paid advertising that’s gonna be facebook ads google ads youtube ads

Things like that that is going to be a way to get people onto your server via paid advertising on google facebook and youtube as well as you know instagram other sort of basically platforms where players could potentially be this is going to again be another skill that you have to learn learning google

Advertising learning facebook advertising learning youtube advertising these are skills that you’re going to have to learn that go inside and coincide with your minecraft server getting players on the server is the most difficult part so you have to learn skills around getting players on a minecraft server right so that is the

Biggest thing so make sure you look into this stuff research on youtube figure out the best ways to do youtube advertising facebook advertising google advertising if you just jump right into it it might not work out the best for you but if you spend time you want to

Work at it you want to be the best at it and then you want to reap rewards on that on your minecraft server you can do it next up let’s actually talk about specific referrals now i mentioned throughout this video getting your friends to have their friends play on

The server that referral sort of system is a great way to get players however you may want to actually set up a true referral system there are plugins out there that can do this and basically what it is is someone can type in your server slash referral and then the

Username of whoever referred them and then the person that referred them will get a reward in game right and adding in referral systems like this can really help boost your server however you do need to watch out for frauds you do need to do things like that because it can

Get to that point so you know beware with this but using a referral reward system can be a great way to grow your server organically without you having to like i said do these paid methods that’s a way to get someone when you get a player to get them to get their friend

On because they’re going to get a reward and maybe they both say maybe just one of them stays but if that’s the case you still met one player from there let’s talk about social media now i have seen some minecraft servers use instagram as a great growth method for their server

It actually has blown my mind how people have used and leveraged instagram but there’s also other platforms out there facebook tick tock can also be a great way to get players even twitter is a great way if you can get the right community there start curating a community and grow on twitter with

Minecraft in the minecraft community you can start getting players on your server from this basically areas right and from these communities so social media is a great way again it’s kind of another skill that you’re learning how to grow on instagram how to grow on twitter how

To grow on facebook how to grow on tick tock these are things that you’re kind of learning right and skills that you’re learning that are then going to net back players onto your minecraft server so that is another way social media is a great way to get players in your

Minecraft server it’s going to be a longer investment but it’s going to have the potential to re huge rewards in the future now one more method the last method on our list here is actually going to be networking with other server owners now this is something i want to

Leave at the end here because it’s not a catch-all right even at our size at breakdown craft with hundreds of players and things like that there’s not many server owners we talk to on a regular basis and even still it’s not really a relationship where you are giving each other players right that’s

Usually not a thing that happens but by networking other server owners you can start to figure out how other server owners are growing their server i mentioned voting sites you may learn different methods and strategies that have worked well for these other servers on voting sites that allow you to

Implement those on your server and basically grow right now someone say nick isn’t that stealing and to me it’s just fair competition i mean businesses do this all the time they look at what their competition is doing and then they implement it because it makes sense and

It basically kind of skips the r d if you will and that’s what i’m encouraging here talk to other server owners look at what their servers are doing to grow their servers and then use those methods yourself now eventually a method can become oversaturated and that’s why

Looking at other different areas can be a good idea but looking at other servers looking at what they’re doing and communicating with other server owners if you have the chance on how to grow servers can be a great way to both of you grow together and build better

Servers for example a survival server and a skybox server they’re not competing too much so those server owners can talk and everything works out perfectly fine so there you have it that is our basically little list of different ways to grow and get players on your minecraft server none of these

Are a catch-all be all end of everything none of these are that but what they are is different ways to grow your server and different ways that may work for you may not work for you it is completely up to you and the different things that you can basically come up with right

So just keep that in mind that this is all with an asterisk on it some of it may work some may not might not work it is hard to grow a server it is the hardest part of owning a server and once you do it it is a very very rewarding

Process so there you have it that’s how you can grow your minecraft server if you don’t want to mess with growing a server or even starting your own server go come play with us at plateaubreakdowncraft.com i mentioned breakthrough craft throughout this video and it is an amazing minecraft survival

Server currently we have 1.17.1 survival we always keep that on the newest version so come play this planet breakdowncraft.com i want to see you online there my name is nick and i’m out peace