The documents that matter are the End User License Agreement and the usage guidelines, both on minecraft.net. If you are about to charge money, read those. Do not read a forum post from 2014 and call it compliance. Mojang has rewritten the commercial bits more than once.
What you can do
- Play the game you bought, including with mods, resource packs, data packs and maps, for yourself and your friends.
- Share non-commercial fan work — a video, a map, a mod, a skin — within the usage guidelines. Credit Mojang. Do not pretend you are them.
- Run a server. People may join it. You may ask them to behave. The house rules you add are not the EULA; they sit on top of it. See public servers.
What gets people in trouble
- Selling the game, a cracked launcher, or someone else’s copy of Mojang’s assets. “Free Minecraft” downloads are both a licence breach and, usually, malware. The safety version of that warning is on staying safe.
- Selling gameplay advantages. The classic trap is a server shop that sells kits, fly, or extra hearts the vanilla game does not give you. Cosmetics — a hat, a particle, a rank colour that does not change the fight — are treated differently from selling power. The line has moved. The current EULA is the line.
- Using the name, the logo, or “official Minecraft server” styling for merch, events or a hosted world without following the usage guidelines. Fan sites, this one included, have to say they are not Mojang.
Mods and the Marketplace
Making a mod is fine. Selling access to the game itself is not. Charging for a mod is a separate, older argument that still depends on what you are charging for and whether you shipped Mojang’s files inside the download. When in doubt, ship the mod and let people use their own paid copy of the game.
Bedrock’s Marketplace is Mojang’s own shop for add-ons, skins and worlds. It is not a bypass of the EULA. It is the path they built so that selling those things has a contract. Building add-ons to play yourself is the Create page, not a commercial licence.
Nothing on this page lets you ignore a server’s own rules, or a platform’s (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Apple, Google). Those can be stricter. Age ratings and who is allowed in the chat are next, on accounts.