Frequently asked questions

Check the live status on the home page — we ping mc.hypixel.net every minute and show whether it’s online, how many players are connected and its recent uptime.

Rarely, but yes — even the largest Minecraft server has the occasional outage or scheduled maintenance. When it does, this page shows it within a minute, and our uptime page logs how long it lasted.

Every minute we check the Java server mc.hypixel.net through two independent services, mcstatus.io and mcsrvstat.us, and treat it as up if either can reach it — so one service having a hiccup never shows a false outage. We also check the Hypixel API’s reachability.

A single failed ping can be a quick restart or a network blip, so we wait for two checks in a row before marking Hypixel down, and only record it as an outage if it lasts a few minutes. The status re-checks every minute. If it shows up but you still can’t connect, see the troubleshooting guide.

Yes — the verdict at the top is a live, global ping, so everyone sees the same up or down answer at the same time. The home page also shows a shared uptime history — bars, a player-count graph and a recent-activity log — that everyone sees, not just you.

Yes — head to the Check a server page and type any Java server’s address for a live status page with its players, version, MOTD and connection details.