NimBlock hosts a Minecraft Java server (Paper) for you and lets you build its plugins out of blocks, without writing a line of Java.
WHAT THIS APP DOES
This app is the panel for your server, made for a phone:
• Start, stop and restart your server
• Watch the console live, and type commands into it
• See which plugins are installed, and switch them on your server
• Check memory, storage and your account's quotas
• Download your world as an archive, whenever you want
WHAT YOU DO ON A COMPUTER INSTEAD
The block editor that builds the plugins is a drag-and-drop workspace. It is genuinely better with a mouse, and this app does not pretend otherwise: build your plugins at nimblock.com on a desktop, then install and run them from your phone.
HOSTING DURING THE BETA
Hosting is free during the beta, with no card required and no automatic subscription.
A server stops after 15 consecutive minutes with no players connected. This inactivity stop never happens during the first 10 minutes after the server comes online, and those 10 minutes are not added to the 15. A connected player, even an idle one, prevents this stop. During the final minute, the panel shows the time left and you can add one minute, once per period without players.
Stopping deletes neither your world nor your plugins. You restart the server from the panel when capacity is available: a start is not guaranteed immediately, and a player trying to connect does not start a stopped server. A stopped server still uses storage, and the service's storage and retention limits still apply.
This stopping rule applies only to servers hosted by NimBlock. The NimBlock engine stays free on a Paper server hosted elsewhere, where this automatic stop does not apply.
HOW THE PLUGINS WORK
You assemble rules: when this happens, if these conditions hold, then do that. Nothing generates Java anywhere. Your server runs one engine that reads the rule file and executes it, which means a rule written today keeps working when Minecraft updates: it is the engine that takes the hit once, for everyone, not your plugin.
The full catalogue is published before you sign up: 9 triggers, 11 conditions, 14 actions, at nimblock.com/en/grammar. Rules can use only the triggers, conditions and actions listed there. "When someone breaks diamond ore below Y=16 without the permission, cancel it and warn them" is three conditions and two actions; "when a player joins for the first time, give them a diamond and welcome them" is one condition and two. Rules can also check the current position of the player's feet and the material in their main hand, including an empty hand. This does not include full-inventory or armor checks. The first-visit condition reads Paper's own data and remains true until the server first saves that player. Two limits worth knowing before you start: conditions do not nest, and the engine keeps no memory of its own. It reacts to what just happened and stores nothing: no counters, no "how many times has this player done that", no cumulative anything. If you need a guild system with its own database and GUI, this is the wrong tool.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE INSTALLING
• You need a NimBlock account; hosting is free during the beta, within the limits above
• Capacity is shared: creating a server depends on available storage, and starting one on available memory
• Your players connect with their normal Minecraft Java client, they install nothing
• Your world is yours: one button hands you the archive, and there is no lock-in
• Java Edition only. No Bedrock, no mods, no third-party .jar uploads
Not an official Minecraft service. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.
Your Minecraft Paper server, hosted. Plugins built from blocks, not Java.