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Cartograph

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Cartograph is a Minecraft server directory that ranks listings by measured server quality rather than vote-buying or paid placement. Quality scores are derived from telemetry collected by an opt-in server-side plugin.

Cartograph

Most Minecraft server lists rank by votes. Vote-trading sites, automated bot networks, and reward-driven voting plugins mean the top of the list reflects who's most willing to game the system, not which servers are actually worth playing on.

Cartograph takes a different approach. Servers are ranked by measured quality — uptime, performance, player retention, moderation responsiveness, and other signals collected through an opt-in telemetry plugin that servers install themselves. Listing is free; the ranking can't be bought.

In Development

The directory itself is being built now. The telemetry plugin and the scoring model are the first deliverables — without trustworthy data, the ranking has nothing to stand on.

Phase 2: Server Analytics

Once the directory is live and telemetry is flowing, the same data that powers the public ranking will be made available privately to server owners as a standalone analytics product — historical performance, player behaviour, retention cohorts, and operational signals that existing Minecraft tooling doesn't surface.