Minecraft wiki entry for Realms, associated text: Minecraft Realms is an official subscription-based server hosting service that allows players to create and manage their own private Minecraft servers. Hosted by Mojang, Realms provides a simple way to create servers and allows the owner to manage them from inside the game, without knowledge of hosting on the internet. Realms also allows players to choose from a list of minigames to play temporarily, as well as several pre-made world templates, adventure maps, experience maps, and inspiration maps, all made by Realms community map makers. Maps are updated by Mojang sporadically, ranging from a few days to as recently as one to two months. Realms are not intended for large public servers, but for groups of friends or as a family server.[1]