NimBlock: Minecraft server

Mollenthiel Studio

About this app

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, disk and how many slots you have left
• 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.

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 an account, and the free tier is a real server, not a trial: no card, no time limit
• Capacity is finite and stated: the machine holds a dozen servers, and the site says so
• 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.

What’s new

First release. Run your hosted Minecraft server from your phone: start, stop, restart, the live console, and the plugins you built in the studio.