How to sell ads on your Minecraft server

June 10, 2024 | Minecraft Server Advertising | 3 minutes read

Have you ever wanted to make money from your Minecraft server by selling ads, leading to other websites, servers, or even software?

We have found 3 ways, you can sell ads on your Minecraft server, including using an advertisement texture pack, an ads plugin, or an advertisement mod.

What are Minecraft server ads?

Minecraft server advertisements (ads) refer to various forms of advertising used to promote the server and attract players.

For servers with a strong and active player base, monetization through ads can be an additional source of income, which can be set to reward both players and server owners.

Some common advertisement practices include selling banner ads, or including imagery content on frame, to closely showcase the server.

For payment practices, most servers get paid based on player activity, and the pricing is discussed for a day.

If you are looking to start selling your server as an ad spot, expect, to receive money every month, and work closely with ad managers, who can be often found on forums.

How to sell ads on a Minecraft server

To sell you server ads efficiently, we have outlined the top 3 ways, you can set up and expect, to receive money from showcasing another server, software, or even websites.

Advertise with a texture pack

Advertising with a Minecraft texture pack is the easiest way to set up text ads on your server. A perfect texture pack for that would be called “I put ADs in Minecraft!”. 

Minecraft Ads Texture Pack

This small texture pack offers vanilla-only textures for the in-game items, but the achievements tab is recorded, to showcase custom ads.

You can use the texture pack to include any ads, which advertisers would pay for, including server names, IP addresses, or domain names.

The only problem with this texture pack is that you cannot add clickable links, as achievements were not designed to be clicked, and open a new window with information.

This advertising texture pack for Minecraft servers is designed to showcase a custom-made text ad every minute, and it will be visible to players who have downloaded the pack.

The best practice to show ads would be to encourage players to install your texture pack, with the “require-resource-pack” option in your server’s settings.

Advertise with a plugin

For advertising with a Minecraft plugin, you can choose nathanub’s creation, which is called “RewardAds”. 

RewardAds

RewardAds is a Minecraft advertisement plugin, that lets server owners integrate the plugin with their own server, and let players watch custom ads. Each ad will reward players with a custom-made currency for servers, called coins.

With the farmed currencies through watching ads, players can choose between custom-set rewards, while server owners will gain money.

The ratio between payout and commission is 20:80, which means server owners get to keep 80% of the ad price. Usually, this level of commission has to be discussed with the owner of the plugin.

To get started with RewardAds, head over to the official Github page, and read the documentation.

You can also start your journey by directly reaching out to at RewardAds “helprewardads@gmail.com”.

Advertise servers with a Minecraft mod

MalisisAdvert is a Minecraft server advertisement mod, that allows server owners to include ad systems into their Minecraft worlds. With this mod, any server owner can include ad logos inside Minecraft blocks, by using a beginner-friendly GUI.

Server owners can also choose what to advertise, and use different models for effectively advertising Minecraft servers with the mod.