Minecraft community’s latest tool randomly connects players to one of over 3,000 servers

Running into a room full of strangers is not something I would advise in the real world, but that’s what video games are for.

Minebored is a new community-created tool that enables Minecraft players on PC to randomly join one of over 3,000 live multiplayer servers. It is as simple as entering “play.minebored.com” into the block-building survival game’s “Server Address” field and then hitting “Refresh.” Minebored will then quickly return a joinable game. If you don’t like what you find, just go back and hit Refresh once again. This could enable Minecraft players to start discovering fun (but lesser known) servers populated by other people. It’s also an example of how Minecraft’s fans have kept the game fresh with new features that even developer Mojang and publisher Microsoft are not working on. In a gaming market worth $99.3 billion, that kind of community support is what sets apart a forgettable release from a phenomenon like Minecraft.