For parents

If your kid plays Minecraft online, they're playing on servers — communities run by other people, with their own rules and their own risks.

What our safety ratings mean: we assess each server on moderation, chat safety, and community standards, and publish what we looked at — a rating is a signal, not a guarantee.

What we don't do:we don't take money to make a server look safer than it is, and we don't slap “100% safe” on anything.

How to use Blocktopia as a parent: start with our safety ratings, read community reviews, and check a server out yourself before your kid dives in.

Blocktopia is for ages 16 and up. We do not offer accounts to anyone under 16. If we learn an account belongs to someone younger, we close it and delete the data — email us at [email protected].

We use self-reported age. At sign-up we ask for a date of birth and refuse accounts under 16. We do not verify identity and we do notrun ID checks. A child who enters a false date of birth won't be caught by this — so age signals on Blocktopia are a helpful guardrail, not a guarantee.

Some servers are adults-only (18+). At sign-up we record an under-18 flag for players who are 16 or 17. Automatic age-gating — using that flag to keep under-18s out of adults-only servers routed through Blocktopia — is coming. Until it's live, the server's adults-only label is the signal to rely on, and every server runs its own door.

Even once age-gating is live, it has limits:

• It can't catch a player who entered a false date of birth — there is no identity check behind it.
• It will only govern joins routed through Blocktopia. A server that publishes its own public IP can be joined directly in the Minecraft client, outside our application flow, and runs its own door.
• It does not moderate what happens inside any server. Each server sets and enforces its own rules.

Under the GDPR, 16 is the digital-consent age in Germany. A player aged 16 or older is the data subject for their own account: they hold the rights to access, correct, export, or delete it, and they exercise those rights themselves. We do not hand a player's account, data, or login over to anyone else — including a parent — on request. See how those rights work in our privacy policy.

If you believe an account belongs to someone under 16, email [email protected]. Blocktopia is 16+, so we'll look into it and close the account and delete its data if it's under-age. We answer parent emails first.

Blocktopia gives you clear safety labels and an under-18 flag — but online play still needs a parent or guardian. Supervision of a minor's play remains the responsibility of their parent or guardian. Please decide what kind of server is right for your child, and check in on how they play.

For how our safety labels work and what each level proves, see how verification works.