Replace MCStatusBot with Guardy Bot.

A new home for your Minecraft status

Your members should be able to see whether the world is responding before they launch Minecraft. Guardy Bot keeps that answer in a Discord status post, with player counts, optional connection alerts and an optional voice channel counter.

The MCStatusBot team announced a hosted-service shutdown date of 1 September 2026 and stopped accepting new bot invitations. We checked that notice on 12 October 2026. This guide is published by Guardy Bot and explains how to recreate your monitoring here; it is not an automatic transfer or an affiliation with MCStatusBot.

If you prefer to run MCStatusBot yourself, its team still points to the open-source project and self-hosting instructions. Guardy Bot is the hosted option described below.

1. Copy the details you need

For each Minecraft server, keep its edition, public address, any custom port, and the name you want members to see. Do not copy passwords, bot tokens or RCON credentials. Guardy Bot does not need them.

You can monitor up to five Minecraft servers per Discord server on every Guardy Bot plan. If your old setup has more, choose the five you want to move here first.

Java and Bedrock are separate choices. A server reachable only on your home network cannot be monitored from Guardy Bot; you need its public address. Minecraft Realms are not supported.

2. Recreate the monitor in Guardy Bot

Add Guardy Bot to your Discord server, open the dashboard and select Minecraft. Choose Add server. Adding your first monitor turns monitoring on.

Select the edition, enter the address and choose a channel under Post status in. Add a friendly name if you want one. Use Test connection to preview the connection, then save the monitor. A temporarily unreachable server can still be saved for monitoring.

Guardy Bot checks about every three minutes and keeps one post updated with the latest reading and check time. Give Guardy Bot permission to view the channel, send messages, embed links and read message history. Members who can view that channel can see the server address.

3. Decide where the status should appear

The status post is the main display. If you also want a channel-list indicator, select one existing voice channel for Guardy Bot to rename. That single channel combines status and player count and updates about every ten minutes. Guardy Bot needs Manage Channels permission for it.

This differs from MCStatusBot’s documented two-channel setup. You do not need to recreate both old channels. Pick a dedicated channel and avoid having two bots rename it at the same time.

Optional alerts are off by default. Enable them to receive a message in the status channel after three consecutive failed checks, followed by a recovery alert when the server responds again. A failed check can mean a restart or network issue; it does not establish that everyone was disconnected.

4. Verify before you switch

Use this short check before removing your old setup:

1. Confirm the Minecraft edition and address in the Guardy Bot dashboard.
2. Find the new post in your status channel and check its last-check time.
3. Compare the displayed player count with your Minecraft server’s own reported count.
4. Run /minecraft status in Discord. With several monitors, choose the server. The private reply shows the latest saved reading for a monitor whose status channel you can view.
5. If you enabled the voice counter, allow about ten minutes for its name to update.

Guardy Bot’s command is /minecraft status, rather than MCStatusBot’s /status. It reads saved monitors, not arbitrary server addresses. Update any pinned instructions that tell members which command to use.

5. Retire the old display when you are satisfied

Once Guardy Bot’s reading is updating, remove or relabel the old status channels you no longer need. Check that no other bot still owns the channel you chose for Guardy Bot’s counter.

Keep the new status channel easy to find. Then use the same Guardy Bot dashboard for your community’s events, support tickets and welcome messages.

For connection errors, channel permissions and removing a monitor, use the Minecraft monitoring setup guide (opens in a new tab).