ibxtoycat – How To Make Money Playing Minecraft

Hello I’m fjx toy cat and making money doing what you love is the absolute dream which is why I consider myself to be very lucky to have not just one but multiple businesses related to Minecraft one of my favorite games of all time but how does this actually work how do you

Make money from Minecraft how do people do these tournaments and these mod making this map making YouTube and live streaming how do any of these systems make money today I figured I’d share my personal experience as well as that of those close to me on how the economics

Of all of these five things actually work and we’re going to start with the first and perhaps the most important and fundamental of all five which is math making well it can be boiled down to three simple things the first is a map that’s actually worth selling I love my

Furnace Bridge as much as any other person does but this isn’t a Minecraft map in itself it’s just me playing Minecraft and building some things so a map that people actually feel is good enough to download and then the second is an audience of people who would

Actually like to play that very map there is such a wide range of incredible maps that exist But ultimately you need people who actually want to download them whether it’s because it’s a fun thing to do with friends or whether it’s because it’s something they really appreciate and want you need to find

People who actively want the things that you make and then the third thing is a way to make money when they actually download the map so most people think of this and say the marketplace you need to just apply to be a Marketplace partner but this is actually something very

Limited by Minecraft because they’d only be seen as just selling any old crap and so only a few teams are added to the marketplace every year and in general you need to prove you’ve had a few successful map downloads before you’ve done that so are you just going to make

Maps for free I don’t think that’s necessarily what you have to do instead you can monetize via different way so you can sell your own Maps outside of the marketplace if you want this is not a route I’d recommend but you can sell them on any Marketplace that exists out

There or you can simply make the download free but supported via ads there are all sorts of AD supported websites I used to use adfly but there’s a few that exist now where you can get paid every time someone goes to a download link it does require someone to

Go through a few extra seconds to download your map so it has to be something people really want to download and you can eventually transition this into selling Maps directly people think of this as being the marketplace but you could also do it on patreon or even only

Fans if you want to there’s no rules and only fans against Minecraft maps because there’s very few rules at all and so that might be something you look into however a lot of people don’t like the idea of at least self-publishing Maps this is a great idea if you want to go

The entrepreneur but if you are just wanting to make maps and then work it out later and you have enough Talent you can reach out to existing Marketplace teams some of them work as Publishers and some of these people will publish your map for you give you marketing

Support etc etc and they’ll give you a cut for the map that you sell if you want to go even a step lower down than that and just make money building stuff that is important you can apply to be a builder by the website bucket of cramps.com and we’ll come back to that

More later but there is a whole bunch of websites where you can just build four people and get paid a certain amount for your building contributions which might be a good way to monetize your Minecraft building skill but you know you might also realize that you actually like

Building when it was the creative side and not necessarily the uh effort side but that’s down for you to decide speaking of ways for you to decide one of the most open platforms inside of what you actually do with it is of course YouTube or meet you because it’s

Me right now you are someone that you think people would be interested to learn about then this is a great platform even if you’re not it’s something I would recommend trying if only for self-confidence reasons because YouTube is a platform all about the people side of things you can be the

Best at the game you can imagine but if you can’t really communicate with that people it doesn’t really matter and the reverse is true if you’re terrible at video games but people want to be around you and listen to you and hear what you have to say then maybe YouTube is a

Great place to be I recommend giving in a shot for all sorts of reasons but the one big piece of advice that goes above everything else is don’t look at something that’s already popular and think you can do that sometimes people say this on like oh it’s just copying

Level but ignoring the copying side of things because I think Ola is about copying it just isn’t going to do very well if you see it if you see a Captain Sparkles of the world or you see some YouTuber who’s doing something really successful and you want to copy that

Clone it and do it again you might think this is a great idea but if it was then there would be a trillion Mr Beast Channels with a 100 million views each but the truth is once something already exists people know where to find it it’s

With that person doing that but with a worse personality worse production quality etc etc is never going to catch on you need to find your unique Niche is usually the guide for basically any industry but of YouTube in particular find something that you think you can do

Better than exists out there or even better what I what I did when I started is find something that you wish existed and start making it and see if people will naturally find it there is this tendency and content for stuff to eventually rise to the top and I think

YouTube shorts is a great way to promote yourself I think that making sure that you make a decent amount of stuff that is uh you know like uh you know trying to promote yourself as much as you can is the best thing you can do and that doesn’t mean going into random comment

Sections and typing hey please check out my channel that means going out there and working out what is the on meta branding for thumbnails what is the thing you’ve got to do as far as YouTube shorts and tick tocks and making sure sure other platforms will promote your

YouTube it’s a very hard game and it is very much running a business like all of the other things on this list but if you can do it successfully then you’ll do great but if instead you don’t like the idea of high effort around the thing and

Instead you just like the idea of playing the thing but also you don’t think you’re good enough to necessarily be like uh in the tournament end of things you might in prefer instead streaming streaming has very much stepped up in quality since I started YouTube it used to be back in the day

Just yeah watch some people and then they do stuff vaguely and they maybe will you subscribe to the Channel streaming is now a industry where the top dogs are making tens of millions and sometimes hundreds of millions in contracts right so it’s very very insane

What the top level of streaming is and a lot of people look at that and say yep that’s normal you just you stream the game and people just slip you ten dollars every five seconds the truth is the overwhelming majority of streamers uh you know what’s the average number of

Viewers per stream the it actually works out to slightly less than one the majority of people streaming have zero people watching because think about it how many people um you know know how if you if you right now uh were to go down the street how many people’s windows

Would you like to come and hang out with them and play games with probably very few you’d probably want to find someone that was interesting and also that would let you into their house and that wouldn’t look at you weirdly once you got in there but the point about

Streaming is you need to be someone who people would like to be around there’s a whole point about like energy levels in this I’m sure too uh but I think the most important thing for you to know is that it’s much more important to uh have uh the regularity and the consistency

Because when people do find you they need to be able to find you again uh than it is to try and do big Grand events having those is incredibly important I mean you probably heard about the guy who beat every single Minecraft speedrun but it’s not as

Important as knowing that that person is a regular that you can watch uh because that is something that people value in their live streaming entertainment so I would say the actual business Ender for you know doing those things because I think this is important while we’re talking about making money the way you

Actually do that is on YouTube or on Twitch you can get paid per view for the ads that are played before videos but it’s widely accepted that unless you’re getting millions of views every single a month that either you accept it’s going to be a part-time income or you have to

Accept some form of additional income so when it comes to streaming sponsorships are the big way but this is also a thing you can do on YouTube there are all sorts of companies and games that are willing to pay you to go with their stuff I think it’s very important to

Know that if you sell your audience for money you won’t have an audience very long and it’s very important to be honest and upfront about these things but you can look into the monetization once you get there you can look into the merch offerings they’re making your own products they’re all the different

Things that people do the most important thing that it all revolves around is can you get a viewership and that’s the thing you should be thinking about will people ever care about you playing Minecraft and if the answer is no try and work out a world where they will and

Work towards that I think that basically any skill set can be applied to Minecraft in this way and you might start to cynically say wait a minute tweak out you’re just saying you can do anything but you can technically do it Minecraft I just want Minecraft as a job

The truth is you’re never going to have a job that is just playing a game you’re never going to to have a job that’s just willing to give you money and fame because almost everything in life that looks like it’s incredibly from the surface actually has a lot of work that

Needs to go into underneath and enjoying that work is something we all do learn to do I think uh it’s very depressing especially when you’re like young and you just dream of like I want a job where I play games the actual reality of playing games for a job is you’re a QA

Tester and you load up the same game over and over again and you test weird edge cases to see if they’re working and the same is true for Minecraft sure there are jobs that are actually really dull and painful if you really don’t want to be a streamer playing it for 14

Hours a day when you just want to work on a base and have people care about it might be terrible but if you have any skill set applying that to Minecraft and using your passion of Minecraft as a plus for that job rather than the negative is the way that you’re going to

Be successful with anything right now whenever we talk about being a Creator content creator on the internet we tend to talk about specifically YouTube and YouTube does have one of the best partner programs Forex users but if you do think that you have what it takes to

Make successful tweets or what it takes to make successful books or you know guide websites or anything like that if you have the idea for the next Minecraft Wiki but even bigger then you can do that sort of thing that might be better suited for your skill set one of my big

First successes was selling books uh you know there’s all sorts of platforms like Google Play Books Etc and uh you know like one of those books was Minecraft related lots of people wanted to learn about the game in book form weirdly enough it’s something you don’t think

About but it only takes a few thousand sales to be the equivalent in you know thousands of dollars to a million or several million views on YouTube so it might be something that’s worth considering the same goes for a website if you have a subscription if you have

Even just the ads on a website will be worth a lot more than YouTube because you don’t have to split 45 of them with the platform and God knows who else ever with and also there’s no requirements on the website speaking of no requirements I think something that is also worth

Mentioning is something that does come with a lot of requirements but might be people’s favorite thing to do because people love modded Minecraft I really this is one of those things I’ve never been personally as big on I think that Minecraft is a great vanilla game that

You could mod but why would you need to some people think Minecraft is a great vanilla game and it’s perfect for modding and statistically speaking those people are in the right because there’s tens of thousands of mods making a mod is a great way to potentially have a job

That is related to Minecraft there’s three main ways you can take this one of those ways is kind of the whole you make something that’s popular people want to download it and then they pay to download it or they go on your patreon or even just add supported websites like

Custom Sports the second way this can go is you start working on you know like all sorts of people need mods to make the things they’re doing work I’d say YouTube is a common example lots of YouTubers have these very fake videos but they need to pretend things are in

Minecraft they need your mod to have a really convincing uh you know like uh it’s if they want to have a Teletubby running through their Minecraft world and have it look convincing they need you to make that actually look convincing and so you can make those for

Videos but the third and more an interesting one is oftentimes Marketplace map developers will be willing to hire you if you have have decent skills personally I have a Marketplace team I’ve mentioned this before I am looking for all sorts of people if you’re really good at making

Things in Minecraft and you can use especially Minecraft bedrock’s code to make interesting Maps I would love to like hear what your skill set is and what you could bring that is a job that I would love to hire for for example and you know like work on some part of

Freelance basis but you can find all sorts of postings if you have the skill set in animations if you have the skill set and programming if you have the skill set of just even like creative putting things together then you can probably find a job somewhere in that I

Would recommend getting good at it before starting like working on making the most basic add-on like here is a b Minecraft has all the best tools I said here’s a beaver that’s a real mob here’s a wasp you know a wasp in Minecraft that would be ridiculous but you can actually

Uh Minecraft has all sorts of tools to help you with these things because they want people to be creative in the game too partially because it helps them and partially because they want people to do very much the same thing do you have talent if you’re really talented at what

You do so there is some way that you can make money from it and can you get eyeballs on you if you have a lot of eyeballs those eyeballs eventually convert money if you have both at the same time then that’s incredible I think most people don’t think of themselves as

Incredibly talented people that lots of people watch um but if that is you you’re doing amazing good job but if it’s not uh maybe instead you enjoy uh bucket of crabs I’ll leave a link to uh that down below alongside I’ll leave my email there just in case uh you’re out

There and you’re like I love uh you know you want to help with ibx 20 Maps I am looking to recruit there uh because I want to make survival altering Concepts like really take things above and beyond if you’re really good at Bedrock uh add-ons and you have this idea or you

Have something that you think you can actually do uh regarding making the game hard I would love to see it for some Ultra hard survival spin-offs uh or if you’re on maybe you just found it useful to know that like yeah Twitter has a partner program Facebook and Instagram

Have much lesser ones they’re very much more about uh trying to keep on the platform than anything else same with Tick Tock they’ve got to create a fun but it’s not so good there are all these platforms that do exist and if you’re on any of them I’ll also leave a link to

Some of my setup down below because not having a good microphone is one of the things that can really screw you I have a procaster and a decent shock mount here and that makes such a big difference to my recording versus if I like if I’m talking over here or I’m all

You know like having a bad microphone can ruin everything and so getting yourself a decent setup not necessarily an expensive gaming chair that’s one of the least important things can I say that about these you’re not getting a decent gaming chair is important for posture or something but way more

Important for your videos is having a decent light a camera a microphone the things that people are going to be seeing every time they see you and the important things for anything else is to learn and stay in school but they don’t teach you Minecraft coding in school so

Learn and try this out on the side and uh yeah I make hopefully you try to do that and hopefully you enjoyed this authentic look into what it’s actually like to make money uh but either way I hope you all enjoyed this one and I’ll

See you in the next one honey I just wanted to rhyme thank you