Minecraft Glossary

Classic Minecraft experience with resource gathering, crafting, and survival against monsters.

Challenge mode starting on a floating island with limited resources. Expand and complete challenges.

Team-based PvP with base building, raiding, and territorial warfare using TNT cannons.

Mining progression gamemode. Rank up from A-Z by mining and selling resources.

Team minigame where you protect your bed while destroying enemies' beds.

Survival Multiplayer. Community-focused vanilla or semi-vanilla survival servers.

Unlimited resources for building. Often features plot systems and WorldEdit.

No rules servers where anything goes. Hacking and griefing typically allowed.

PvP mode where killing players steals their health hearts permanently.

Town-building gamemode with politics, taxes, and territory management.

Role-playing servers with classes, skills, quests, and dungeons.

Pokémon mod servers where you catch, train, and battle Pokémon in Minecraft.

Player versus Player combat. Fighting other players rather than mobs.

Player versus Environment. Fighting mobs and completing challenges.

Destroying or damaging other players' builds. Banned on most servers.

Attacking and looting enemy bases in Factions/raiding servers.

System that protects your builds from other players. Common in survival.

In-game money system for trading with shops and other players.

Player progression levels, either earned through gameplay or purchased.

Loot boxes opened with keys for random rewards.

Pre-made set of items given to players, often with cooldowns.

Central area where players appear. Hub of most servers.

Teleportation point to specific locations on the server.

Server address used to connect (e.g., play.server.com).

Network port. Java uses 25565, Bedrock uses 19132.

Connection latency in milliseconds. Lower is better.

Ticks Per Second. Server performance measure. 20 TPS is optimal.

Delay or slowdown caused by poor connection or server performance.

Server-side modifications that add features without client mods.

Client and server modifications that change gameplay significantly.

Popular server software that supports plugins.

Performance-optimized fork of Spigot server software.

Mod loader for creating and running Minecraft mods.

Lightweight mod loader, faster updates than Forge.

Plugin allowing Bedrock players to join Java servers.

Java and Bedrock players on the same server via Geyser.

Original PC version (Windows, Mac, Linux) with mod support.

Cross-platform version for mobile, console, and Windows 10.

Minecraft Pocket Edition. Old name for Bedrock on mobile.

Server that requires application/approval to join.

Server administrators and moderators who enforce rules.

Communication platform used by most server communities.

Supporting a server on listing sites. Often gives in-game rewards.