Arcade

• Players: 2 to 16 per round.
• Length: 2 to 5 minutes, 7 at most.
• Flow: vote → minigame → celebration → next round.
• How to join: in the lobby via the navigator or with /play → Arcade.

• During the countdown (30 seconds, shorter from 12 players) you vote with /vote or the menu. Voting closes 6 seconds before the start.
• If nobody votes, the game that hasn't been played across the whole network for the longest runs. Block Party comes up twice as often.
• On a tie the rotation wins, otherwise chance decides. Bots never vote – the choice is yours.

Music plays, the floor is colorful. Then the music stops and a color is announced – big as a title, as a block in your hotbar and as a clock in your experience bar. When the time is up, every block that isn't that color disappears. Whoever stands next to it falls.

• The time until the fall starts at 5 seconds and gets 0.25 seconds shorter every round, down to 1.25 seconds.
• The patterns get finer, the colors more alike and the music faster.
• If everyone still standing falls in the same round, the round doesn't count – nobody is out.
• After 25 rounds, everyone still standing wins together.

In many rounds a beacon glows in the floor. Step on it and you get a power-up:

Three layers of sand and gravel stacked on top of each other, with TNT underneath. Every block you stand on disappears after 0.4 seconds – standing still means falling. Whoever falls through all three layers is out.

• You have 5 double jumps: on Java press the space bar twice quickly, on Bedrock use the feather (right-click). The number of feathers shows how many you have left.
• From 2:30 the layers start collapsing on their own.

Two layers of snow above water. Your shovel breaks snow with a single hit – dig the floor out from under everyone else's feet.

• Every block you break gives you a snowball (16 at most). A snowball destroys the block it hits and pushes players.
• There is no melee – only the floor counts.
• When someone falls, the point goes to whoever broke a block under or next to them or hit them in the 3 seconds before.
• From 2:30 the floor starts collapsing on its own.

Walls with holes roll across the platform. Position yourself in a hole so the wall doesn't catch you – otherwise it pushes you over the edge.

• 30 walls; they get faster, and the holes get fewer and narrower.
• From wall 7 the walls also come from the other direction, from wall 10 double walls follow.
• A hole only one block wide demands precision: you have to stand almost exactly in the middle.

15 tasks – and only what Simon says counts. Nobody is eliminated; everyone plays to the end and collects points.

The trap: if "Simon says" is missing in front of a task, doing it costs you a point. On a tie at the end, whoever reached their score first ranks higher.

Whoever is out goes to the stands and watches – with a free camera, too. /tribuene takes you back to the stands.

• Block Party: stand in the middle before the announcement, so every color is close.
• TNT Run: keep moving and save your double jumps for emergencies.
• Spleef: dig where your opponent wants to go – not where they stand.
• Hole in the Wall: look at the wall after next, not just the next one.
• Simon Says: listen first, then act. The trap catches the quick ones.

In Arcade every experience point turns into 0.2 coins in the lobby. /arstats shows your stats split by minigame.

Which minigame is your favorite? Post it below.