A raw factions server, raid people, build your base, become the most powerful player. Create the biggest farms, acquire spawners and build your empire.
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A raw factions server, raid people, build your base, become the most powerful player. Create the biggest farms, acquire spawners and build your empire.
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Halcyon is a Lands PvP server that feels like old school Minecraft survival but on the newest version. It was started by a postgraduate medievalist so the whole world has a strong medieval atmosphere. The server is based in Australia but there are players from Europe the Americas and Asia so it is pretty active.
The world is fully handmade with big unique biomes. There is no teleportation so traveling actually matters. Players build long roads waystations and secret underground railways to move around. The F3 menu is turned off so navigation is a real challenge. Some people sell lodestone compasses and others work on giant maps or teach how to navigate by the sun and moon.
The gameplay is designed to be harder and slower. There are a few restrictions to make progression take longer and to make meta strategies and automation less important. To succeed you focus on working with other players doing brave PvP fights trading smart and building strong cities and castles. It is more about skill and teamwork than exploits.
There is no strict server lore and no pre built adventure. You just join pick a direction punch some trees and play how you like. Over time your story connects with other players and turns into history with fights alliances and legends. The plugins and world are made to push this type of emergent storytelling and people already create books art myths and weird superstitions in game.

NvizionMC is a crossplay SMP that feels really chill and relaxed. It has been open for about a month and there are already around eighty people in the community with a handful on every day. It feels like the kind of place where you can just hop on after school and hang out.
The server has a survival world with an economy so you can earn in game money and spend it in a server shop. You also get money for voting every day which makes it easier to save up for bigger stuff over time.
There are chest shops so players can rent their own shop at spawn and sell things. You can claim land so your base is protected right away and you do not have to stress about people breaking your builds.
There is SimpleVoiceChat for proximity chat so you can actually talk to people nearby instead of just typing. Everyone also gets access to ImageFrames which makes builds feel more custom and fun. There are cosmetics and sometimes rank and key giveaways too so it feels like there is always something going on.
Overall it looks like a simple survival server that focuses on a chill vibe and a friendly community instead of super complicated plugins.

BlockedInMC is a new towny survival server that just opened and it already feels pretty active. You can create your own town with a command and claim land so your stuff is safer. If you do not want to lead a town you can just join someone else and help them grow their place.
The server lets you play how you want. You can work together with others and build up big towns or go solo and try to fight everyone as an underdog and climb the ranks. There is teleport stuff like random tp and tpa so it is easier to get around the world and meet other players.
There are custom structures and custom biomes you can find while exploring so it does not feel like a plain default world. There is also no whitelist so you can join right away and start playing without waiting.
Overall it looks like a chill towny experience where you can either team up with a community or go your own way and see how strong you can get.

OneCraft is a simple survival SMP that feels like vanilla but with some extra cool stuff. It runs on Minecraft 1.21.9 to 1.21.10 and it supports both Java and Bedrock so more friends can join.
The server uses a few server side mods and datapacks to make the world feel bigger and smoother. There are extra Vanilla plus biomes new structures and dungeon style places to explore. There is also Mine Treasure and some MMO style features so exploring and fighting mobs feels more fun.
You can talk with Simple Voice Chat so it feels more like hanging out instead of typing all the time. It still feels like normal survival where you mine build and survive but the world looks cooler and has more stuff to find.
The server has solid hardware and runs on Debian so it stays pretty stable. It is run by the owner Flazone and it is made for people who want a chill SMP with more adventure but not a crazy modpack.

This server is called Crafttomuck and it is all about the Create mod. It is a modded survival SMP that is focused on building machines and cool builds. The server is on its fourth season so it feels pretty established and active.
The main world is a survival SMP with Create and a bunch of addons and extra mods. The vibe is friendly and build focused. People like to hang out check out each others bases and just relax and play together. There is a shopping district and a gaming district that keeps growing all the time.
They also run a separate creative server. It uses the same modpack as the main survival world. Players use it to test machines plan bases or just mess around in creative and build whatever they want.
There is another server slot that rotates through different modpacks that the community votes on. Those modpacks run for a few months or until players stop playing them. This makes the whole thing feel fresh without resetting the main world all the time.
From what I can tell the hardware seems strong and all the Minecraft servers run off a dedicated machine. They say it usually stays at 20 tps and if there is lag the admins try to fix it fast.
The admin team looks pretty involved and they try to keep everything running smooth and fun. The community is described as friendly and they are looking for new players who want to build and just have a good time together.
