play.strawn.games
Hi. You found us.
Strawn Games is a small Minecraft world called Sculklantis, run at home by a dad and his son.
If someone about four feet tall handed you a card with a squiggly square on it and then stood very close while you scanned it: this is the right page, and you may tell them so.
Two worlds
One is running now and you have to be invited. The other is open to everyone and is not built yet.
The private SMP
Running nowFamily and invited friends
Our survival world, running now. Home play is still being switched on; a parent can ask about joining now, and we take a child's Minecraft name only as part of the consent step once the invite list is proven.
How to joinThe public SMP
Coming soonAnyone, once it opens
A second world that anybody can join. We are building it properly before we open the doors — moderation and backups first, players second.
Nothing to join yet. The Discord below is where it gets announced.
Talk to us
Parent Discord
Parent coordination only — where grown-ups ask about the private world, where we say when a server is going down, and where an adult can get the consent details before a child joins anything.
The invite link is not published yet. Ask the family who gave you the card and they will send it to you directly.
For the grown-up holding the phone
Short answers here; the long one — what the research says and what it does not — is its own page.
- What is this, really?
- A Minecraft server on a computer in our house, for our kid and the friends he plays with. Not a company, not a club, nothing to subscribe to.
- Who can actually get on it?
- People we have added by name, and nobody else. We are honest about where that stands: the world is not reachable from the internet yet, and the invite list that will keep it that way is being switched on before anyone outside our family joins from home. This page will say so plainly the day it is on.
- Does this website collect anything about my child?
- No. Plain static pages — no sign-in, no cookies, no analytics, no third-party scripts, nothing loading from anywhere but here. Our host keeps the ordinary server log every website keeps; we never look at it.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing to buy and no account to create with us. Your child needs a copy of Minecraft they already own.
- Something is not working. Who do I talk to?
- The quickest route is the family who invited you — this is a between-families thing and they can usually sort it on the spot. An email address for this page is coming.