Minecraft edge
Protected tunnel to your host
Attack traffic is stopped at the NorthShield edge. Clean Minecraft connections are forwarded to your origin over a protected tunnel so your real host stays hidden.
Game ProtectionMinecraft protection built for real player traffic.
Hostile traffic is filtered at the NorthShield edge before clean Minecraft joins, panels, and stores are delivered over a protected tunnel to your origin.
Tunnel
Hidden origin handoff
Java
Minecraft-focused filtering
XDP
Early flood drops
Low
Added latency target
How it works
Attacks stop at the edge. Players reach your Minecraft server through a clean tunnel.
Instead of exposing your host to the open internet, NorthShield filters hostile traffic at the mitigation edge and forwards only clean joins, proxy traffic, and supporting web services to your origin.
- Protected tunnel handoff that hides your real host
- Join flood, bot, and server-list abuse mitigation
- Panel, store, and API Layer 7 filtering
- Wipe and launch-day traffic review
Capabilities
Filtering that understands Minecraft.
A generic web firewall does not understand join floods, server-list spam, or wipe-day peaks. Game Protection is tuned for Minecraft networks and the services around them.
Player stability
Join-aware filtering
Mitigation accounts for join bursts, proxy handoffs, and regional player spikes so a wipe night or peak hour is not treated like an attack.
Minecraft protection
Server list & bot abuse control
Status pings, server-list scrapers, and join bots can be rate limited without blocking legitimate players browsing or connecting to your network.
Gameplay
Low-latency player path
Clean traffic is routed with player ping in mind. PoP selection follows where your community actually plays.
Operations
Panel & store shielding
Protect your Minecraft panel, storefront, voting sites, and APIs alongside the game port so supporting services stay online during an attack.
Events
Wipe & launch readiness
Before a wipe, season reset, or public launch we review expected player load, attack history, and peak windows with your team.
Player experience
Mitigation should not feel like downtime.
During an attack the goal is not only to drop hostile traffic. The real goal is to keep players online: stable joins, reachable panels, predictable ping, and clear status for staff running the network.
- 01Keep legitimate players joining during flood windows.
- 02Protect the game port, panel, and store together.
- 03Tune thresholds around real wipe and peak hours.
- 04Report attacks in language Minecraft operators can act on.
Coverage
Built for Minecraft communities and networks.
Use Game Protection for public Minecraft servers, private SMPs, network proxies, panels, stores, voting sites, and the APIs that keep your community running.
- Join flood and bot mitigation
- Server-list and status ping abuse control
- Hidden origin via protected tunnel
- Proxy and backend shielding
- Panel and store Layer 7 protection
- Wipe and launch traffic review
- Attack notifications for staff
- Post-attack summaries for operators
Pricing
Pick a plan that matches your player base.
Free for small Minecraft servers. Standard and Pro scale with concurrent players, domains, and backends.
Free Plan
Free
1 TB monthly traffic included
- 1 TB monthly traffic
- Global Anycast Network
- 2 domains
- 1 backend
- Attack notifications
Most popular
Standard Plan
$7.50/mo
from $0.30/player · min 25
- Fair Use monthly traffic (based on player level)
- 15 domains
- 5 backends
- Advanced analytics
- Attack notifications
- Premium Support
Pro Plan
$40/mo
from $0.20/player · min 200
- Fair Use monthly traffic (based on player level)
- 50 domains
- 20 backends
- Advanced analytics
- Attack notifications
- Premium Support
- Priority mitigation queue
Paid plans scale with concurrent Minecraft players. Fair-use traffic is sized to your selected player level; domains and backends increase with Standard and Pro.
Keep your Minecraft network online.
Share your player regions, expected peak, proxy setup, and attack history. We will design a tunnel-based path that protects players and your origin.