We run the servers.
You run the world.
BlockForge owns the whole path between your players and your world: the nodes, the network, the panel and the support queue. No hand-offs, no finger-pointing at a third party when something needs fixing.
What we build on
Every BlockForge server runs on hardware we operate, in datacentres we deploy into directly. Here is what that means in practice.
AMD EPYC 7000 & 9000 series
The standard range runs on EPYC 7000-series nodes; the premium range on 4th Gen EPYC 9000-series cores. Nodes are capacity-planned rather than packed, so a neighbour's chunk-gen run doesn't eat your tick budget. The exact model within a series varies by node.
DDR4 ECC and DDR5 ECC
The premium range runs DDR5 ECC throughout; the standard range runs registered DDR4 ECC.
NVMe, RAID-backed
Every plan sits on NVMe. Nothing in the world-save path touches a spinning disk or a network volume.
1 Gbps+ per node
A 1 Gbps port minimum with several TB of included traffic, rising to multi-gigabit on the premium range.
Five regions, one price
Pick whichever region is closest to your players. None of them carry a surcharge, and you can let the region picker choose for you at checkout.
Amsterdam
Netherlands
London
United Kingdom
Warsaw
Poland
Milan
Italy
Madrid
Spain
Helsinki
Finland
Ashburn, VA
United States
Root SSH access
Most Minecraft hosts hand you a web panel and nothing else. We will give you a real shell on the machine for $1.00 per month — free with a promo code — so you can install your own tooling, script your own restarts and tune JVM flags yourself.
Honest setup times and pricing
Provisioning takes 2–3 minutes and we say so rather than advertising sixty seconds and missing it. The price on the plan is the price on the invoice: no tax, no VAT, no gateway surcharge bolted on at checkout.
Open-source foundations
The control panel is not something we invented from scratch. It stands on projects the Minecraft hosting community has hardened for years, and we would rather name them than pretend otherwise.
Pterodactyl®
The open-source game server management panel our control panel is built on, written in PHP, React and Go.
Nebula
The panel theme we ship, tuned for a focused, readable server management experience.
Blueprint
The community extension framework that lets us add panel features without forking Pterodactyl.
Hangar by PaperMC
PaperMC's plugin repository, wired into the panel for fast and trustworthy plugin installs.
Encrypted panel data
Sensitive panel data is stored with AES-256-GCM authenticated encryption.
Isolated management traffic
Panel-to-node communication runs over isolated tunnels, separate from the ports your players connect to.
Pterodactyl® is a registered trademark of its respective owner. BlockForge is an independent project and is not endorsed by Pterodactyl, PaperMC, Mojang or Microsoft.