37 Days

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Short answers about using 37 Days and about Minecraft: Java Edition usernames. The basics of drops, sniping and the 37-day rule are answered on the home page and explained in the guide; longer explanations are in the articles.

No. The list of drops, the name checker, the name history and the statistics are open to everyone. You only sign in to follow names and be told about them.
Never. To follow names you sign in on Microsoft's or Discord's own page, and we never see your password. Nobody from this site will ask you for a password, a code or a token.
No. We tell you when names drop and write to you about the ones you follow. Claiming a name is something you do yourself, from your own account on minecraft.net.
No. It is an independent project. It is not an official Minecraft service and is not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.
Each answer says when the name was last looked at. Three- and four-character names are looked at over and over; a longer name is looked up when someone searches it, and again from time to time after that. A name shown as available may have been claimed since.
Someone may have claimed it after our last look, or Mojang may not allow it. The name change page of your profile is always the final word.
As often as you like, with 30 days between one change and the next. Changing a Java Edition name is free. How to change your name goes through it.
No. Nobody can reserve a name that is still in its 37 days of reserve: the first account to ask for it once it drops gets it. Anyone offering to reserve one is not telling the truth.
Yes, while it is still reserved: once your own 30 days have passed you are the only one who can take it back, until day 37. After that it drops and anyone can claim it.
The permanent identifier of a Minecraft account. The name can change, the UUID cannot, and that is how servers and tools keep recognising a player after a rename. See the glossary for other terms.
In September 2022 Mojang removed public name history for player safety, so that people who change their name cannot be followed through it. Read a short history of Minecraft name changes.
The renames we show are public facts about names that we saw ourselves. If something about your account worries you, write to us.
By Discord direct message or by e-mail, whichever you choose on the watch page. We write when the owner of a name renames away, a day and an hour before it drops, and as soon as it is free.
The watch page says the current limit. Follow the ones you really want: every one is looked at for you until it drops.
On the watch page, Delete my account removes everything we keep about you at once. The privacy statement lists what that is.
Because a drop happens at the same moment everywhere, and the useful thing is to know it in your own clock. The page names the time zone it uses, which is your browser's.
No. Bedrock shows your Xbox gamertag, which is a different system. Everything here is about Java Edition usernames: see Java and Bedrock names.
Because their owner took them back before day 37, because they were claimed, or because a closer look showed they will not drop. The list only keeps names we still expect to come back.
Write to us with the name and what looks wrong. Corrections to dates and names are the most useful messages we get.

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