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Link servers with a Velocity network

A Velocity network puts several of your servers behind one address. Players join the network’s address and move between servers without disconnecting, for example from a hub to survival to minigames.

The network is a server of its own, running the Velocity proxy. Your Minecraft servers stay separate servers with their own consoles, files and plans.

Create a network

Section titled “Create a network”

First create the Minecraft servers you want to link. Then:

  1. On the dashboard, click Create server.
  2. Name the network. Its name becomes the address players join.
  3. Under Type of server, choose A network, then Velocity.
  4. Under Which servers belong to this network?, pick up to 10 of your servers.
  5. Check the summary and click Create network →.

Your first proxy is free. Each extra one costs 250 credits, once.

The panel sets up secure forwarding between the proxy and each server for you. A server that is running may restart once to apply it.

Manage the servers in the network

Section titled “Manage the servers in the network”

Open the network and click Servers. The page lists each linked server and its state.

  • Add server links another of your servers. Forwarding is set up automatically.
  • Use the up and down arrows to put the servers in the order Velocity tries them when a player joins, then click Save order. The first one is where players land.
  • Remove a server to unlink it. The server itself isn’t deleted.
  • Fix puts every server’s address and forwarding back the way it should be. Use it when a player can’t reach one of the servers.
  • Start starts a linked server that is offline.
  • Turn on Only let players in through this proxy to make players reach your linked servers only through the network’s address, not through each server’s own address.

Players switch servers with Velocity’s /server <name> command, or with a plugin such as a hub selector.

Sleeping servers

Section titled “Sleeping servers”

When a player joins the network, the proxy wakes linked servers that are asleep. If the first server isn’t ready yet, the player gets in as soon as it answers, within a few minutes.

Plugins on the proxy

Section titled “Plugins on the proxy”

Velocity runs its own plugins, separate from your servers’ plugins. Open the network and click Plugins to install Velocity plugins from Modrinth.