What We Actually Check
Whether a listing describes the server you would actually find. Not whether the server is well run, well moderated, or worth your evening.
The address is pinged from our side, so whether a server is online, how many players are on it and how full it is all come from us rather than from the owner. Nobody can type a player count into a listing.
What the Verified Mark Means
That a person here checked the listing is what it claims to be. It is applied by hand and cannot be asked for.
It is not an endorsement and it is not a safety rating. A verified listing can still be a server you dislike, and it says nothing about how anybody on it behaves.
Most listings are not verified, and that is not a warning sign. It usually means nobody has got to it yet.
What We Do Not Check
- How a server is moderated, or whether its staff are fair
- Whether a rank or an item you paid for is actually delivered
- What other players say to you once you are in
- Whether the server is suitable for the age of whoever is playing
We are a directory rather than a regulator. A listing being here means somebody submitted it and the address answers, and past that you are making the same judgement you would make anywhere online.
The One Rule Worth Remembering
Never enter your Microsoft password anywhere except Microsoft's own sign-in page. No Bedrock server needs it, and no server should ever ask for it.
A server telling you to sign in with Microsoft to verify yourself, to claim a rank, or to prove you are not a bot is trying to take your account. There is no honest version of that request, because joining a Bedrock server never involves handing your password to the server.
Other Things Worth Slowing Down For
- Being told to install a launcher, a custom client or any program outside Minecraft
- Free ranks or currency in exchange for signing in somewhere else
- A link sent to you in chat that leads to a sign-in page
- Anything that hurries you, because being hurried is the point
Resource packs and behaviour packs are not this. Minecraft downloads those itself and asks you in game, and plenty of ordinary servers use them. The warning sign is a program you have to install on your device yourself.
Telling Us About a Listing
If a listing sent you somewhere it did not describe, contact us and say which one. That is the part we can act on, and a listing that misdescribes its own server usually loses its place.
Most of what happens on a server rather than in its listing is for that server's own staff, because we have no reach inside a server and cannot moderate one. There is a short list of exceptions we do act on, covering phishing, scams, malware and servers organised around hate, and the Server Listing Guidelines set out what they are: https://lecternmc.com/policies/server-guidelines
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