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Everyone on the Java edition?
Without Bedrock players there is nothing to translate, and Mini gives a Java server the same 4 GB.
Mini Crossplay · 4 GB
Is Mini Crossplay the right size for you?
Mini Crossplay brings PC and phone friends together
Mini Crossplay is the smallest Crossplay plan: 4 GB for a world where friends on the PC edition play alongside friends on phones, tablets, consoles and Windows. We set up Geyser and Floodgate for you, so everyone keeps playing on the device they already have.
Mini Crossplay gives you 4 GB of memory, 2 vCPU and 60 GB of disk.
4 GB memory
2 vCPU
Daily backups included
What that carries on Mini Crossplay
Mixed groups of friends
A few friends on PC and a few on phones or a console, together in one survival world. Everybody sees the same builds and reads the same chat.
Families on different devices
A child on a tablet, a parent on a laptop and a cousin on a console, all on one map, with a whitelist so only the people you added can get in.
A small plugin setup for both editions
Crossplay runs on a plugin server, so basics such as homes, claims and chest locks work for Java and Bedrock players alike. On 4 GB, keep that list short.
- One address that everyone uses, whether they play on a PC, a phone, a tablet or a console: a family world where some of you are on Java and the rest on Bedrock, all joining the same survival map.
- Plugins, a handful of them, on a vanilla world whose players split between Java and Bedrock however they like, which 4 GB carries easily.
What it will not carry on Mini Crossplay
More than a small group online
The translation for Bedrock players runs on the same server and adds work a Java server does not have. Busy evenings reach the limit sooner, and Starter Crossplay doubles the memory.
Modpacks
Bedrock players can join a plugin server but not a modded one. If the plan is a modpack, choose a Java plan of this size instead, and know that friends on Bedrock will not be able to join.
- Modpacks built on Forge or Fabric. Bedrock players can only be translated into a server that runs Paper or Purpur, and that is where the line is: a mod list is never an option on a crossplay plan.
- A busy public server. On Mini Crossplay, the layer that translates for Bedrock players already takes a slice of the 4 GB it has, so a server like that belongs on Starter Crossplay.
Germany
Mini on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
In Germany, Mini runs on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with 50 GB Enterprise NVMe, and Mini Crossplay itself does not. The Mini address has Germany already selected and lists the full specification of its size.
One size up · 8 GB
Starter Crossplay
Double the memory, for more players at once and a longer plugin list.
For €5.00 more a month, Starter Crossplay doubles the memory to 8 GB. The processor stays at 2 vCPU, so the twenty ticks a second run on the same power, but a plugin server with Bedrock players on it stops feeling tight.
Outside Germany, Mini Crossplay has 60 GB of disk. A world that a mixed group has been building in for a year is still only a couple of gigabytes, so the disk also carries every backup and most of it stays free as room to grow.
Getting both editions into your Mini Crossplay world
Java players join with the server address, the way they join any server. Bedrock players add the server once to the server list in their game with the details from your panel, and after that it stays there for the next evening.
Try the connection from one device of each edition before inviting the whole group. A quick test from a phone and a PC on the first evening saves a long chat about why one friend cannot get in.
Plugins that work through chat commands behave the same for both editions. Plugins built around inventory menus can look different on a phone or a console, so check them from a Bedrock device before relying on them.
When the group grows, move to Starter Crossplay. The world, the plugins and the way both editions connect stay the same, and the server is only down for about as long as a restart.
Want the full breakdown of this Mini Crossplay plan, with the price on every term and what runs comfortably on it? The price on every term is in the order card above, and what runs comfortably on it is in the two lists at the top of this block. The crossplay hosting page explains how PC and Bedrock players end up in one world. Not sure about the size, or whether Mini Crossplay at 4 GB is the one? The RAM guide works it out in one sentence: memory decides how many players and how many mods fit, so the answer comes from your player count and your modpack.
How Crossplay works on Lodehost
A Crossplay server is a Java server with Geyser and Floodgate installed and configured by us. Java players connect the way they always have, and players on the Bedrock edition connect through that translation on the same server. Both groups end up in one world, with one chat and one set of plugins.
Because a Java plugin server runs underneath, permission, protection and economy plugins keep working for everyone. Modpacks are the exception, since Bedrock players cannot join a modded server. Already running a Java server on Lodehost? Ask us and we turn it into a Crossplay server that keeps its world and its address.
Notes on what you are choosing
Everything below is about this order and about Mini Crossplay in particular. It is here because a price and four fields do not answer the questions people actually ask us in the last minute before they pay:
- What machine is under it?
- When does it arrive?
- What happens to my world at night?
- What exactly comes off my card today?
Not this size after all? Back to the plans. Ready to order but the first field is still empty? Name your server first.
Where it runs, and what the location changes
The location you pick is not only about distance. It decides which machine your world lands on, so the specification above changes with it.
Germany (EU), Performance lineincluded in the plan price- Germany (EU), Standard lineincluded in the plan price
United Kingdom€1.50 a month on top of the plan price, delivered within 48 hours
US (East)€2.00 a month on top of the plan price, delivered within 48 hours- US (Central)€1.50 a month on top of the plan price, delivered within 48 hours
- US (West)€1.50 a month on top of the plan price, delivered within 48 hours
Poland (Warsaw)included in the plan price, delivered within 6 hours during the day and 12 hours at night
Choose the place most of your players are nearest to. The distance between them and the server is most of the delay they notice, so it matters more than where you live yourself.
Germany
Mini Crossplay runs on a shared server processor here, with 60 GB of disk. Mini runs on a machine of our own here: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with 50 GB Enterprise NVMe.
Minecraft works through its whole world on a single thread twenty times a second, so a core that gets further inside those fifty milliseconds does more for your server than an extra core would. The disk matters for the same reason: loading chunks and saving the world both happen inside that same tick. A second core still earns its keep, because the network traffic of every player and plugins that do their work off the main thread run beside the tick instead of inside it, while the tick itself stays on one core. Those twenty ticks a second are not a number we invented; they are the clock Minecraft itself runs on.
Germany costs nothing on top of the plan price, and it is the location we hand over fastest.
This size also has an address of its own with Germany chosen, and the full specification of this size is on it: the full specification of the Mini plan. That address is the Java edition of this size, which is what our own machines carry at 4 GB. Starter Crossplay Performance is where the crossplay edition starts there, one size up, so if Bedrock players have to be able to join on our own machines, that is the address to open: the full specification of the Starter Crossplay plan.
United Kingdom, US (East), US (Central), US (West)
In these regions Mini Crossplay comes with 60 GB of disk. It is the right choice for a vanilla world, a plugin server or a modpack that is not at the heavy end, and it is the only way to sit close to players who do not live near Germany. The surcharge per region is in the selector, next to the name of each location. Whichever of them you pick, the machine stands in that region itself, and your players connect to it there rather than by way of Germany.
The order card above shows the processor and the storage for whichever location you select.
Poland
The Performance line on this page can also stand in Warsaw, on our newest machine: the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with DDR5 RAM, for the same price as the Performance line in Germany. Pick Poland (Warsaw) under Server location to get it. That machine is added when the first order for Warsaw comes in, so delivery there is within 6 hours during the day and within 12 hours at night instead of within the hour. In Germany the Performance line keeps running on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X.
The same plan on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in Germany
Want more speed? Upgrade this size to the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in Germany: faster cores, your own NVMe slice and a faster port. That address opens on Mini, the Java edition of this same 4 GB, with Germany and the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X chosen from the start. Mini Crossplay itself is not built on that processor, so picking Germany at this address keeps it on a shared server processor instead, without an NVMe slice of its own. Open the full specification of the Mini plan.
On the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in Germany, Crossplay starts at Starter Crossplay.
Friends playing on phones over mobile data notice delay quickly, so choose a location close to where most of them are.
What arrives, and when
You get a server that is already installed and an address your friends can type, with no port number behind it. That address is the one thing you share with the people who join.
Most orders are handed over instantly. If a machine has to be prepared first, it is within the hour during the day and within twelve hours at night, and you can watch it happen in your panel instead of waiting for an email.
That goes for Germany. In the other locations, United Kingdom, US (East), US (Central) and US (West), delivery takes up to 48 hours, and the order summary above shows the time for the location you pick. In Poland (Warsaw), delivery is within 6 hours during the day and within 12 hours at night.
Nothing about Mini Crossplay is set up by hand, so the 4 GB and the 2 vCPU are there from the first minute. The whole setup runs by itself after the payment: what you pick at the top of this page is set before the server is handed over, so there is nothing about the order left for you to set afterwards.
The crossplay layer is installed during the automatic build, so Bedrock friends can join on the first evening without anything extra to set up.
Your world at night
A backup is made for you every night, on this plan and on every other one, and that costs nothing extra. You keep up to ten of them, as many as fit the storage that comes with Mini Crossplay, and you restore one yourself with a single click.
The one that rolls off the end is not thrown away: it waits another seven days in a bin, so a mistake you only notice on Tuesday is still fixable.
You can also download a backup to your own computer whenever you like, and keep it for as long as you want after you stop paying us.
A backup covers the whole server, including the plugins that let Bedrock players in, so a restore brings back a world both editions can still join.
On this plan, without paying extra
A panel we built and run ourselves, with a live console and a real file manager. The console reads out the logs line by line as the server writes them, so the line with an error in it is there when you look, and the file manager edits the files right in your browser.- One click installs for plugins and modpacks, and switching server type or game version without starting a new world.
- DDoS filtering in front of your address as standard, and a free subdomain.
A free website for your server comes with the plans from 8 GB up. On those plans you put it together in an editor in your panel, without writing any markup.
Help moving a world over from another host, with your plugins and settings intact. Tell us where the server runs today and what is on it, and we take it from there. If you already have a download of the world, you can also upload it yourself in the file manager, together with your own jar or modpack.
Staff get their own login with permissions you choose per person, for up to fifteen people, so nobody needs your password. Whitelist, bans and operators have their own place in the panel, which saves typing commands. Your account can use two step login, and incoming attacks are filtered before they reach the network.
The panel is the same as on any other plan; the crossplay layer runs in the background and we keep it installed and up to date.
Already running a Java server for your friends elsewhere? We move it here as a Crossplay server, with the world, plugins and player data intact.
What you pay, and when
€9.95a month for Mini Crossplay on the monthly term, with Germany as the location.
Mini Crossplay is €9.95 a month in Germany, and that is the amount on your invoice as well as on the card above.
The four terms in the field above are the same server with the same resources; what differs is how often it is collected, and on the yearly term each month costs €8.95 instead of €9.95.
Monthly
€9.95 leaves your account on the day you order and again on that date every month after it, with an invoice for each payment in your account. Cancel from your panel before the next renewal and it simply stops; there is no fee for leaving and nobody to phone.
Yearly
€107.40 in one go, and then nothing for twelve months. That is twelve times €8.95: a 10 percent discount on the monthly price of €9.95, and still not a longer contract in disguise. You can move to monthly at the next renewal, and a world you built on a yearly term stays yours either way. On that term the whole amount leaves your account once a year.
6 months and 24 months
The same server can also be paid for six or twenty-four months at once, like on the yearly term: €53.70 for six months, which is €8.95 a month, or €214.80 for twenty-four months, which is €8.95 a month. The term renews at the same amount, and you can move to a shorter term at the next renewal.
Due today in the order summary is what is charged when you continue, and the note under Billing term says how the plan renews. You can cancel at any time without a cancellation fee. Cancel at least three days before the renewal date and nothing more is charged; the server keeps running until the end of the period you paid for, and your files stay available for seven days after that.
A Crossplay plan costs a little more than the Java plan of the same size, because the translation for Bedrock players is part of what the server runs.
Why we ask you to sign in first
The server is put on your account, and your invoices, your backups and your console all sit behind that same login. So we need to know who you are before the payment; otherwise there is a paid server with no owner and a panel you cannot reach.
Signing in takes one screen, and you come straight back here with these choices still filled in. No account yet? You create one on that screen, before the payment, and the server arrives in that account.
The payment itself
The payment runs on the page of our payment provider and not on ours, so your card details never touch our servers. You will see Mini Crossplay on the summary there with the term you picked, and after it you land in your panel with the server already building.
If something goes wrong at that step, nothing is charged and you can come back to this page.
Changing your mind later
The name of the server is a field above and a field in your panel, so nothing depends on what you type today.
You can move up a size when your world outgrows 4 GB, and your world, your plugins and your settings come along, so a world shared by the same friends for years moves up in one piece. Upgrading changes the size and the price: from then on the higher price of that size is what you pay. You can also switch the term you bought at the next renewal, and the sizes we offer are side by side on the plans page.
What you cannot change afterwards is the location, because that is where the machine your world sits on stands, so pick the region your players are in.
Ask us first if you are not sure which one that is, and ask us here about anything that is not on this page.