How To Manage A Minecraft Server | A Owner’s Guide [Community, Advertising Methods, etc.]

I know the video is long we need to understand is that this type of knowledge is the true proper way to manage a minecraft server this type of knowledge can be compressed down into a matter of few minutes every single second of it is important this is basically

A tutorial guide a server owner’s handbook the steps you need to know in order to run a minecraft server the server itself and your community and how you should also act as a server owner for your server to really get it out there everybody in today’s video we’re

Going to be talking about how to properly run and manage a minecraft server running a server is like going into a battlefield and hoping you don’t get shot not everybody can do it unless you know what you’re getting into this video can be very helpful for people who plan to make a server

And people who already have an existing server but don’t know what to do in terms of gaining players alright so my first point for today’s video is be unique focus on one thing if you’re new don’t try to make a server with countless game modes

Do it gradual maybe a few and if a gamer goes popular you can introduce a different one so what i mean by this is if you people today they just make servers with countless minigames such as skywars bed wars survival faction prison all in one and release it to the public and expect

It to get popular it could work for a few but in this video i’m trying to teach you how to run and manage your server to the point where you want it to be as a person with no background you’re not a popular twitch streamer or popular youtuber within a ready-made community

You’re running a server making a server forming a whole community from bottom up servers like hypixels did this method over the years where they introduced one type of game mode i think it was like like a map where you can like play maps with your friends as a server like horror games like

Horror maps and that stuff that’s that was unique they introduced it it got popular then they gradually added different game modes for beginners my personal suggestion is focusing on one type of server such as smps which is really popular nowadays kit pvp servers uh literally any server you want factions prisons but

You have to bring something unique into the table you’re not tommy in it you’re a popular streamer with an already made fan base you can’t make a server with the same things as other servers and hope will go popular when you come from nothing you you need to

Really bring something unique into the table that’s how important it is you can’t be like every other servers it’s possible to be like every other server but very unlikely if you really want to truly want to make it all right the second thing i want to talk about

Is server management and community so when you run a server you need to realize it takes time even months two years to get a server to the point where you want it it all depends on you as the server owner but you have to work your hardest to set

Up the foundations to get there number one thing when running a server is forming a loyal community i don’t think you understand forming a loyal community this can be done through discord having a discord server i’m making sure as essential channels your discord server is the number one

Practical zone for resources for players where they can interact with other players in your servers where they can make friends and they can talk there and maybe one day is a scenario guys maybe one day a famous youtuber goes into your server and you’re sleeping the youtuber likes it joins your discord

But can’t find how to donate they just want to donate to your server for how good it is or they don’t know how to verify and then they just leave they you didn’t get introduced to the potential the chance that’s how important it is to have the essential channels in the

Discord server okay also the second thing about server management and community is you need to keep a professional behind the scenes but friendly and social in the front show your community you know what you’re doing and don’t randomly op people because they said so don’t ever freely give power to people

You don’t trust 100 and yes even your own friends if you really want to take this seriously guys if you know that your friends aren’t capable of having up or you know literally being given any kind of permission if you really want to take server owning seriously and you really

Wanted to get out there you need to sacrifice your own friends so anyone close to you surround yourself with people who are experienced and that is your staff team okay it’s better to run a server alone with a few trusted staff team of high quality and many experienced running server in the

Community then with a big and experienced staff team okay most servers would want a friendly social community you as a server owner are the number one example the role model for the livelihood of the server a toxic negative server owner represents a bad server my best suggestion is to ignore toxic players

Even if they get you upset or mad for every word you use can be used against you in the future especially if you make it one day all right so if if there’s a server if like in your server there’s a toxic player trash talking you in chat don’t say

Anything just ban them kick them don’t don’t don’t fight them in chat publicly i’ll show the other players in your community that you are really unprofessional you’re not handling it well as you that’s like yours expected to be just just bend them or kick them don’t

Don’t do small talk just give them a reason also you know keep professional you can appeal at this website or the discord at you know don’t cause public dispute you’re the server owner you’re not supposed to be acting like basically other players in the server where they can you know like people

Would do it and then other players wouldn’t really mind it because you’re the server owner you’re a staff you’re expected to be professional but also social okay if you ever feel like you’ve done enough when making a server you didn’t a server can always be improved

And they’ll never run out of things to do so all right now why is the community important put into simple terms if you join a server and ask zero players your natural action is to leave all right your natural action is to leave it’s a sad truth

But when it comes to running servers and wanting more concurrent players if you don’t know what that is concurrent players is the average amount of players you have basically 24 7. this is not concurrent players is completely different than peak hours okay this concurrent players when you tell somebody like 30 concurrent players

When they join your server at any time of the day they should see 30 plus players so if you really want more concurrent players you need to focus on advertising okay you need to already have a player base in the first place 24 7. this leads to passive growth

And you can just focus yourself on advertising and managing the server your community will do the rest for you a tip for you know when it comes to servers is every time a new player joins say welcome in chat just introduce them say welcome you’re showing interest to them so they’re most

Likely to stay because the importance of joining a server with already there’s already players in there that’s the importance of making the loyal community by the way having a loyal community leads to players always on the server 24 7 which leads to new players joining the server seeing there’s players

Seeing there’s some form of social community will make the player want to stay and check it out just check out the server give it a chance all right now another thing that’s important and when running a server is appearance and gameplay the first thing a new player sees is the most important factor

It’ll determine if the player wants to stay and explore more or just blatantly leave besides players leaving for low player account servers it’s very vital depending on your type of server you want to introduce a player to something calm something nice to look at you want to make sure the player knows

What they’re getting into or what to do how to start this can be having plugins like npcs or some display tutorial or anything you don’t want to blatantly this person joins a server and just blast them with a bunch of information like floating hoverboards everywhere like they’ll get confused okay you have

To be direct and straightforward as possible expect to have common sense and work from there as for game play you need to find a good host running a server takes money but if you’re willing it’s worth it if you’re really into it it’s worth it every good server

Every good server guys it’s a sad truth every good server there has to be some form of initial investment with real life money no server can make it out there with zero dollars worth of investment in entire server history you have to form some form of investment to get it out there

It’s the truth you can’t you can’t make a free server and maybe you’ll it’ll make it it’ll make it now and then but forever in the long term i mean there’s always you’re going to face some form of investment as for gameplay um hosts such as hostilic apex etc any host would do

But you have to make sure depending on how much players you want correlate it with the plan of the host you want your players to play without the fear of lag you want a lag-less 24 7 experience all right the next thing is competition it’s good to have one to two servers for

Reference to gain ideas from and blend it with your own mix however you never want to compete with other servers publicly competing or causing drama with your server to other servers as a server owner is bad really bad it’s a bad image on you in the minecraft community and the server

Itself you’re just putting a weakness point you’re opening a weakness point for your server you need to know your worth and it does not matter if it’s a big or small server never ever compare your server to other servers their server is their server your server is your server need to focus

All your effort and time on your server don’t worry about theirs worry about yours because everybody started at your place at some point all right now to the most important thing in this video is advertising and gaining players besides going to minecraft you know serverless websites which also i suggest you make your

Server bedrock and java compatible if you but doesn’t mean that a java dedicated or better good to get this everyone through it’s just you just potentially open your server to two types of community groups which you know you can folk your advertising campaign will be more open and more broad but besides that

The number one most important thing is after you have your community set up your spawn everything looking nice and tidy you want more players if you’re starting from nothing absolutely zero players you want to form the stable community the loyal community the best way to form that stable loyal community

Is advertising and trending social media platforms at this moment the number one best free way to get players just to get players introduced like just going to your server is tick-tock based on my personal experience when i started my own server i uploaded one video it it just it went viral 70 players

In less than two hours after i uploaded that video 70 players in the server at the same time and throughout the day it was managing between 50 to 60. all right take talk is a good platform to advertise and by the time you’re watching this video any trending

Platform whether it be tick tock or whatever training platform is made when you’re watching this video a platform your friends have been telling you to you know watch because it’s funny or it’s really you know just a lot of good things to you know to you know things to you when you use

The app there’s a lot of good things from it basically an app everybody uses that’s your number one bet getting your server out there now when it comes to making a viral tick tock video this is just if you if you do plan to do tick tocks

Tick tock is literally the number one best free way to get your server out there you want to follow minecraft trends but relate your smp in some way in the videos use popular sounds in in the video make sure it’s either funny or of high quality do not put 20 different types of

Different colors in the screen at the same time it’ll just make you scroll away okay i’ll make people scroll away and make sure you use popular tags just hashtag smp hashtag minecraft for you for you page for you know fyp all that find a reference video and just copy it

Just copy the tags even the video just add your own twist to it okay i’ll turn it up you know an alternative option is youtube making a youtube video and advertising it there is also another good way using the right title direct and simple good clear thumbnail

Popular tags you have a potential for a viral video i’ve seen servers with 2 000 subscribers even a few hundred subscribers make one video get hundred thousands of views and the videos about their smp server if you search up right now open public smp everybody should pop up if you look

At that channel just use that video as a reference guys the thumbnail is clean simple video clean simple no crazy edits or anything direct to the point you get a show tell the people what makes your server unique and why they should join your server over others

All right the video has to be of decent quality with no ugly text narration and also decent audio quality they don’t want they don’t want it they don’t nobody wants to watch a video where the person is literally talking like this the entire time okay you want decent quality in audio alright so

You have your community now you’re averaging 15 to 30 players and now you want to launch it press that red button to go to the top you have the lloyd community already you already have players playing your server throughout the day now you just want to grow it grow it to

The point where you want it to be where you want your server to be there’s a sad truth in order to appear to allow your audience you need to introduce your server out there you need to invest in things such as google advertising give us facebook advertising no no no no no

I know it costs money but this is not the only way to do this this for people who has money and has a fat and when you just want a fast way to get your server out there google adsense and facebook advertising displays your server your advertising to

Thousands of players okay thousands of players in one day if you don’t have money which i assume you don’t okay i’m gonna assume that you just you want to get yourself out there but you don’t have any money you’re probably your first job yet or anything like that the alternative option is

Social media that i know facebook and that’s what but the best free way it’s possibly tick-tock right now this very moment like i said tick tock twitter reddit if you have the money hire youtubers hire minecraft related youtubers okay don’t hire youtubers with a lot of subs you wanna

You wanna hire a youtuber with a lot of constant concurrent views just sometimes there’s a lot of big youtube youtubers out there that doesn’t really average the views you’d expect it to have okay remember running a server takes time so don’t get discouraged when people say your server is dead or it’s

Going to die it won’t make it they don’t know how to run a server they can’t tell the future you can’t tell the future you need to focus on the present a server truly dies when the owner gives up on it as long as you are motivated as a server owner the server

Will always have a chance if you check out everything in this video everything is set your server can potentially be at the point where you want it to be a popular minecraft server