Realms



Minecraft Realms, also known as Realms, was added in snapshot 13w09b and is a work-in-progress feature that allows for paid public servers hosted by Mojang. Realms provide an easy and faster way to create Minecraft servers and allows more control for the creator.

About 100 players were selected by a computer algorithm to test the first publicly released version of Realms. For these people, the Texture Packs button in the Menu Screen were replaced with a Minecraft Realms button. However, only active or high profile accounts and accounts with strong relations with Mojang were chosen among the random algorithm.

The chosen players can create their own Minecraft worlds, and can invite up to four players into the world, whether or not they were originally chosen to test. Only one server can be made at a time if hosting. Players that are invited will have the Realms option appear on the screen, which then the invited players can enter and explore the world they were invited in.

Minecraft Realms are a subscription feature. The 100 beta testers have a subscription which lasts for 90 days. By viewing the language files in Minecraft via an editor, these lines can be seen:

Trivia

 * The Mojang blog closing signature was signed "// The Minecraft and Minecraft Realms teams" instead of the usual "// The Minecraft team" starting with the blog Minecraft Snapshot 13w09a.