Terms of Service

ServerShulker lists Minecraft servers, lets players vote for them, and runs weekly auctions for featured placement. Using the site — browsing, voting, creating an account, listing a server, or bidding — means you agree to what's below. If you don't agree, don't use the site.

We're not Mojang or Microsoft, and ServerShulker isn't an official Minecraft product.

You need an account to list a server or bid in an auction. You don't need one to browse listings or vote. Give us a real email address — it's how you get outbid notices, receipts, and password resets, and it's how we reach you if something about your listing needs attention.

You're responsible for what happens on your account. If your password leaks, change it — we'll also sign out every device on a password reset. You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. If you're placing a real-money bid, you also need to be old enough in your own country to enter into that kind of agreement, and using a payment method you're actually authorized to use.

A listing has to be for a real, running Minecraft server. The address you give us gets resolved and checked before the listing goes live — a made-up or unreachable address won't save. Keep your description accurate; if what a player finds when they connect doesn't match what your listing says, we can pull it.

You can list up to 10 servers per account. Listings go live immediately once created — there's no manual approval queue by default, which means the burden is on you to keep your listing honest, and on us to act quickly if it isn't.

A listing's banner can be a link to an image you host elsewhere, or a file you upload directly to us (PNG, JPEG, GIF, or WEBP, up to 1.5MB).

Sexual content is not allowed in any banner, under any circumstances. Content that sexualizes, exploits, or endangers a minor is not a rules violation — it's a crime. If you upload it, we will ban your account immediately, we will preserve everything we have connected to that upload, and we will report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement. That isn't a threat we're making to sound tough — it's a legal obligation we have once we become aware of it, and we will meet it.

Every image upload — not just ones that get flagged — is logged with the account that uploaded it, the IP address it came from, the browser it was sent from, and when. Unlike most of the other data this site keeps, that record is not anonymized or hashed. The entire point of keeping it is that it can be handed to law enforcement if it's ever needed, and a hashed address can't be. Our Privacy Policy has more on this.

Short of that, we can still remove a banner for any reason — copyrighted material you don't have rights to, something in bad taste, or a mismatch between the image and what your server actually is.

One vote per Minecraft username, and one per IP address, inside a 24-hour window, whichever comes first. Both are checked to stop the same person padding a server's numbers with a handful of alt accounts. Voting through a script, a bot, a proxy pool, or anything else built to get around the cooldown is not allowed, and votes that look automated get thrown out — including, if it comes to it, all of a server's votes for the affected period, not just the suspicious ones.

Featured slots are sold by proxy auction — you set a maximum, and the visible price only rises as high as it needs to beat the next-highest bidder. Bids in the closing seconds push the end time back, so sniping a slot in the last moment doesn't work.

Winning a slot means we will actually charge you for it, through whichever payment method you had on file when the auction closed — a saved card, a linked PayPal account, a prepaid balance, or a crypto invoice with a 24-hour window to pay it. If that charge fails, the slot passes to the next-highest bidder at the price they would have paid if you'd never bid — not at your price. Placing a bid you don't intend to honor is the same as trying to manipulate the price against whoever wins instead of you, and we treat it that way.

Card details go straight to our payment processor and never touch our servers. Stripe, PayPal, and Coinbase Commerce each have their own terms and privacy policies covering the money side of a transaction; ours covers the listing and auction side of it.

Featured placements are sold as-is once a term starts. We don't offer refunds for a slot you won and that ran as auctioned — this is the same reason live auction sales generally don't get undone after the gavel falls. A failed or disputed charge is handled through the settlement process above, not a refund request.

• Upload sexual content or CSAM (see above — this gets its own section because it matters more than the rest of this list combined)
• Fake votes, manipulate auction prices, or abuse chargebacks
• List a server you don't operate or don't have permission to list
• Attack the site — scanning, exploiting, or trying to pull data you're not supposed to have
• Use someone else's account, payment method, or identity
• Scrape listings at a volume that looks like an attack rather than normal browsing

We can suspend or terminate an account for any of the above, and for anything else that's clearly acting in bad faith even if it isn't listed here. For anything involving child safety, we don't give warnings first.

The site is provided as-is. We don't guarantee a listed server is actually safe, well-run, or what it claims to be — that's between you and the server you choose to join. To the extent the law where you live allows it, we're not liable for damages arising from your use of the site, including a bad experience on a server you found through it.

We can update these terms. If we make a change that meaningfully affects your rights, we'll post the new date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the site after that means you've accepted the update.

Questions about these terms, or a report about content on the site: [email protected] (update this address before launch).