Talk:Event servers

Given that "Event server" is a community/outdated name for "Live Event", we should really rename this article. I strongly reject the name "Gathering" as it is very obviously an internal codename never used for any public-facing material. Given the ambiguity of "Live Event", I suggest a compromise of "Live Event servers". GIM Dianliang233 (talk) 02:44, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Support - Live Event servers is accurate, not confusing, and uses the official term. - Harristic / Talk 👁 Image
02:46, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Apart from the first sentence, the page is (and should be) about the Live Events, not the servers they are hosted on.Drour1234 (talk) 02:59, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Most of the text is a list of the servers, though. The only thing about any wider event are the banners, and they're not really supposed to be comprehensive. Realshow19 (talk) 03:09, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

The Live Events are more notable than the servers they are hosted on. In addition, pages on the wiki should be singular, not plural. This would make the name “Live Event server” and “Live a Event servers” problematic.Drour1234 (talk) 03:15, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm confused, are you suggesting a split? The events and the servers are the same thing. Realshow19 (talk) 03:22, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I am saying that the page’s emphasis should be on the Live Events rather than the servers that host them as they are not the same thing. In addition, pages on the wiki should be singular, not plural. This would make the name “Live Event server” and “Live a Event servers” problematic.Drour1234 (talk) 03:26, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't see the distinction here, what do you define as a "live event" if not for the servers the page is exclusively about? Realshow19 (talk) 03:42, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Mild oppose Personally I think it's best to stick with a general name, with how new this tradition is I doubt they'll use the term "Live Event" forever, and knowing this franchise there could very well be precursors or more obscure servers we'll put on here eventually. That said, Live Event servers is the best name of the three, if we do for a fact have to change it I'd definitely go with that. Realshow19 (talk) 02:50, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I grant that it's possible they rename the feature later, but the UI refers to it as "Live Event" currently. If they rename it later, we can move the page again. bigfoot (talk) 02:55, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Page-names should not be treated lightly as there have been very real misunderstandings that have happened because of names on this wiki. One example is the name “Bedrock Edition”, a name which originated on the wiki and was used so much that everyone forgot it was unofficial until Mojang started using it officially, at which point, it became known again that the name originated need on the wiki. It isn’t for us to decide what things are named. That should never be left up to us.Drour1234 (talk) 04:40, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

That example disproves your own argument. Bedrock doesn’t have some forgotten name, it’s simply Minecraft now, and Bedrock Edition isn’t inaccurate to call it. Bedrock refers to the game’s engine, it’s completely reasonable to call it that, especially if you want to distinguish it from Java. It’s not up to us to consciously decide what things are called, but it’s not a bad thing if language evolves. Things change, and people tend to prefer simple or easy to remember names over something arbitrary and contrived like “Live Event.” Realshow19 (talk) 04:48, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Support - The page should be moved to “Live Event” because the page (and the event pages linked here) are about the events themselves and not the servers they are hosted on.Drour1234 (talk) 03:02, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Weak Support. The page title "Live Event servers" is a step in the right direction (i.e. towards official naming), but it is not perfect in my opinion. How come "Live Event servers" is plural? I would change my weak support to a regular support if the singular/plural issue is addressed. "Live Event server" is a good enough name in my opinion.

A superior name to "Live Event server" is "Live Event", since this article is concerned with Live Events themselves, not the servers on which they take place. Mention of the phrase "event servers" in official names is next-to-nonexistent, and the verbiage in, for example, Trails & Tales Event could be changed as below with no impact to the article itself:

... was an event server that opened on June 23, 2023 at 10am PST ...

to

... was a live event that opened on June 23, 2023 at 10am PST ...

Addressing a comment from the discord server:

I mean, it's not really supposed to be a name. It's the logical thing anyone would immediately think to call them, that's why we called it that.

"Event servers" is a name by means of being the article title. It would be best to refer to this officially-named feature by its official name rather than to promote unofficial names. I understand the utility in a temporary, unofficial name while drafting an article, but now that an official name is known, we ought to be using that.

Regarding the name "Gathering" - it ought not be the article title, since it is clearly an internal name. It would be good if it was mentioned on the article though. bigfoot (talk) 03:28, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Rejected Live event. I like In-game event because it's 1.) most recently used by Mojang 2.) it's seemingly the most accurate description without causing any confusion that it might be a page about in person events which is immediately what i think of when I hear the term "Live event". -BrianGLHF (talk) 03:57, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Look at the term in the name of the article at the bottom of the a Minecraft.net article. It is lowercase. The bolded words at the top of Minecraft.net articles are always capitalized regardless of name.Drour1234 (talk) 04:09, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Fixed thank you -BrianGLHF (talk) 04:16, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

”in-game event” is not a name. The page should use a name, most specifically an official name.Drour1234 (talk) 04:19, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Multiplayer isn’t a name. Server isn’t a name. Food isn’t a name. Plenty of pages are called words, not names. It’s not like this is some unique thing Mojang conceived, the page is about a function. A type of feature instead of a specific one. Calling it something simple or convenient isn’t destructive if there’s nothing it’ll affect. Realshow19 (talk) 04:22, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I think you should read the article in full that was published today by Mojang and then go back and count how many times "Live event" is used in it versus "In-game event" :) -BrianGLHF (talk) 04:26, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

In-game event is a description, not a name. But it is indeed far better than “event server” and I would certainly vote for it if only to move the page away from the completely unofficial “event server”.Drour1234 (talk) 04:32, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Support "In-game event" as an article name. The meaning is very clear, and Mojang has used it to refer to the topic of this page in an official capacity. bigfoot (talk) 05:22, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Support it over “event server”, but I don’t have to like it best.Drour1234 (talk) 05:27, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 strongly disagree as "In-game event" is too vague. It could mean pretty much anything that is happening in-game for a limited time or in terms of entity behaviors. For example, I think the collaboration between Minecraft, Galaxite, and Lacoste back in 2022 would fit under being an official "in-game event." Furthermore, Minecraft will often still call these servers Live Events^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} and in one case I can find they'll call it both in the same article/post.^[7]. Despite the article about the most recent "in-game event"^[8] calling it that, the in-game description still calls it a "live event." (sorry for ref spam) ThatJadon26 (talk) 08:07, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

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 I midly disagree with the name Live Event servers. Whilst it's a fine name and gives the message what the page is about; it's not official. I 👁 Image
 Support the name of Live Event because it still conveys what the article is about. Live event is a common term in video games, which is where it probably originated from, such as Fortnite's live events where an occasion is happening in real time and announced beforehand. This is incredibly similar to what Minecraft is doing. Not only this, the name Live Event is being promoted to regular players en masse by official Minecraft social media sources such as YouTube, minecraft.net, Twitter (X) and more. This means players are already being advertised that live events mean specifically this so any confusion is less likely as this isn't a made up term by the wiki but instead being spread by Minecraft. As well, we can still redirect "event server" and "live event server" to this article whilst keeping the official name. My final point is if players do get confused with Minecons, or Minecraft Live, we could easily add "Not to be confused with..." 👁 Image
Ayaan 13:09, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I think this article should just be "Event server". "Live event" seems redundant as the "live" part doesn't actually have any meaning. "Event server" perfectly encapsulates what the article is about without causing any confusion (i.e. it isn't really "live" in the sense a livestream like Minecraft Live is). Mojang seems to be inconsistent with their naming, so IMO it's fine to deviate from that. 👁 Image
 Strongly oppose using "gathering" as a name or not including "server" in the title. | violine1101 ^(talk) 13:22, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Support as the page name would include the official name and it helps specify what "Live event" means in this case as Minecon would technically be a live event, IMO. When I created the page back when these events were a new thing, I only named it like this because the current page name is similar to the article featured servers. Also it should be plural as it lists all the servers out like featured servers does. Otherwise, I think we should move featured servers to be singular as well. ThatJadon26 (talk) 08:07, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

no i dont aggre w putting pgs w other pgs bc since pol cant put an entire article in a section its best 2 put it in a subpg bc then u can write an entire article abt it CHICKEN JOCKEY I AM STEVE FLINT AND STEEL (talk) 19:13, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

There are some events which are clearly ran and commissioned by Mojang but are not hosted on Mojang-owned servers. Most notably on featured servers such as Hive x Sonic and Galaxite x Lacoste. There wasn't just one post but multiple promoting these events and collaborations. I would understand if this happened only once but there is more than one and predictably will be more in the future.

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Ayaan 14:34, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I wouldn’t call them event servers since they’re not full servers, but sections in a larger, established one, though they could still be listed for convenience in a different table. Page wise though this is a unique gray area, we certainly aren’t going to start documenting the entire servers. If they can’t be explained on the collaboration pages we might just have to give them their own and work from there. Realshow19 (talk) 17:26, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I propose a new name for this page, "In-game event". It seemed rather popular in the previous discussion, but it is somewhat cluttered and I would like to have a discussion about this name in specific so we can see what everyone thinks. I grant that this is not an official proper-noun name, but I believe it is clear about the actual topic of the page, it is rather concise, and it is a term Mojang itself has used to refer to this topic.

This name is superior to the current name of the page, as the topic of the page is about an "in-game event" not the servers on which they take place. "In-game event" does not have any extra semantic information besides what is necessary to refer to the topic. bigfoot (talk) 21:46, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Support the terms “in-game live event” and “in-game player event”.Drour1234 (talk) 00:18, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Oppose as it is too vague and may be confused with game events. | violine1101 ^(talk) 01:09, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

We can easily add the phrase “Not to be confused with…” at the top of the page.Drour1234 (talk) 01:26, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

That's a sub-optimal solution that can be easily prevented by keeping the current article name that is clear and unambiguous. To elaborate on why I think "in-game event" is too vague: this article covers servers on Bedrock Edition that are open for a limited time. "Event" can be a lot of things, and an "in-game event" could be any such event that happens in game. Besides the actual "game events", a raid, a creeper explosion, or the ender dragon dying could be considered an "in-game event". Even if the naming "in-game event" is supposedly official, it would not make sense to rename the article because it would make the article name much less clear and much harder to understand.

I'd be on board with something like "In-game event servers", but in my opinion the "in-game" part there would be redundant. | violine1101 ^(talk) 11:45, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

game event is a redirect to a section of the middle of an article regarding Sculk Sensor detection. I don't really see this as a show stopper in this instance at all. As we have been saying here, the difference between "In-Game Event" and "Event Servers" is that the later is not used by Mojang to describe what this is while the former is. -BrianGLHF (talk) 20:10, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Game event should definitely be its own article since the system is also used by Allays, not just sculk sensors. Additionally, Mojang has not been consistent at all with their phrasing. In https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-legends-themed-event and https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/trails-tales-event, it's described as a "Live Event"; https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/mcc-x-minecraft calls it an "in-game player event" and "in-game live event". And even if "In-game event" were 100% official, it's a bad name for describing the thing that the article is about, which is the point of an article title. | violine1101 ^(talk) 21:06, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

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Ayaan 21:34, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

The point of this proposal is not just to find a fitting name, but primarily to move the page to a term actually used by Mojang. I think the term “in-game player event” or “in-game live event” would help to distinguish the page far more than the term “in-game event”. Both are used by Mojang, but the ones with “player” and “live event” in the name helps to clarify what the page is about.Drour1234 (talk) 21:50, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

"And even if "In-game event" were 100% official, it's a bad name for describing the thing that the article is about, which is the point of an article title." The article would need some slight adjustments but it's clearly what the article is about. -BrianGLHF (talk) 21:41, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Having the name be “in-game player event” or “in-game live event” would help to distinguish the page from “game events”.Drour1234 (talk) 21:50, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

The term “In-game event” is official.Drour1234 (talk) 22:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Support "in-game event". It is succinct, used by Mojang and is widely used and understood in the gaming sphere for things like this. I don't agree at all that it is a vague term. Also we do not refrain from naming articles just because the names might be similar or identical. I may not have a lot of wiki experience but I do know there are functions in place for similarly titled articles be it a note on the top of the page or a disambiguation page. -BrianGLHF (talk) 19:51, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Oppose Just use "Live event" or if we want to use an unofficial name then "Event server(s)" since it's the most sensical option (and is what is being used currently). 👁 Image
Ayaan 20:33, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

While I would also like for the page-name to be “Live Event”, hardly anyone besides us want this. ”In-game event” is a term used by Mojang and that makes it better than the fully unofficial term “event server”. A later proposal can be made to change the name to “Live Event”, but for now though, the focus should be to change the current unofficial name to a name that at least is used by Mojang.Drour1234 (talk) 22:25, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

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Ayaan 20:30, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

We are aware. BDJP ^(t|c) 22:18, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Fixed. Rampage455 (talk) 13:00, 22 January 2026 (UTC)