Finding a Minecraft Realm has always involved some amount of guessing. You browse Discord servers, dig through subreddit posts, or ask in mutual communities — and most of the time you end up with a copied invite code and very little sense of what you're joining. Is it active? Friendly? The right kind of community for you? There's no good way to know until you're already in.
Realm owners have the same problem from the other side. You share your invite in Discord, post on Reddit, DM people who seem interested — and then you do it again next week when the link expires or your post gets buried. There's no permanent place that represents your community. Just scattered ads in other people's spaces.
Realm Index is our answer to both sides of that problem. It's a page builder and public discovery directory for Bedrock Realm and server owners.
For Realm owners
You get a real, permanent page for your community. Not a Discord bio or a Reddit post — an actual page with your Realm's name, a description that doesn't get truncated, screenshots from inside the server, your rules laid out properly, your Discord invite, and anything else you want people to know before they join.
Setting up a page takes about ten minutes from scratch. Once it's live, it stays current: you're not dependent on ephemeral invite links or posts that expire. Your page lives at a stable URL — realmindex.net/your-realm-name — that you can share anywhere.
Application forms let players request to join directly from your page. Instead of telling people to find a particular channel in your Discord and fill out a form there, they can do it in one place. Responses come to you without you having to chase them down.
Announcements give you somewhere to post updates that last longer than 24 hours in a Discord feed. Server events, rule changes, new features — they live on your page and are visible to anyone who finds it, whether that's today or six months from now.
Changelogs work similarly: a running record of what's changed on the server. Useful for returning players and as evidence that the community is actively maintained.
Basic analytics show you how many players have viewed your page. One number, no dashboards. Enough to know whether your listing is getting traction.
For players
The directory is a browsable list of active Realms. Filter by category — survival, creative, mini-games, roleplay, and others — search by name, and look at real screenshots before you decide whether a community is worth joining. No commit-first-and-see-later.
Listings show the community's full description, their rules, recent announcements, and an application form if the owner has set one up. Everything the owner wants you to see, in one place, before you request an invite.
What we're shipping
The first version of Realm Index includes: the page builder with photo uploads and formatted text, a public discovery directory with search and category filtering, custom URLs, player application forms with response management, announcements, changelogs, and basic page-view analytics.
These aren't future goals — they're what we're building right now.
A note on timing
We don't have a launch date we're confident enough to publish, so we're not going to make one up. When we're ready, we'll send one message to the list below. If you want to know when that is — whether you're a Realm owner who wants a proper page, or a player looking forward to having a better way to find communities — leave your email.
One message when we launch. Nothing else.