buildbattles – New Minecraft Servers (May 2025)

The Floating Island SMP VS Hypixel

buildbattles, communitycompetitions, Communitydriven, creativecontent, datapackshub, Factions, floatingisland, Friendlyserver, funminecraftserver, islandchallenges, islandliving, MinecraftFun, monthlyevents, PvE, PvP, Season2, servercompetitions, Smpserver, Survival, twitchstreamer, TwitchYoutuberCollab, weeklyvotes, wonderfulprizes, YouTuber

Hypixel	The Floating Island SMP
Pros	Pros
– Large player base	– Community-driven server
– Various minigames and modes	– Weekly votes for server content
– Active forums and community events	– Monthly events and competitions
Cons	Cons
– Crowded servers at peak times	– Smaller player base
– Pay-to-win elements	– Limited minigames and modes

FAQ

Which server has a larger player base?

Hypixel has a larger player base compared to The Floating Island SMP.

Which server offers more diverse gameplay options?

Hypixel offers various minigames and modes, while The Floating Island SMP focuses on community-driven content and events.

Are there pay-to-win elements on either server?

Hypixel has pay-to-win elements, while The Floating Island SMP focuses on a more balanced gameplay experience.

Which server has more active community events?

Both servers have active community events, but The Floating Island SMP offers weekly votes for server content and monthly events and competitions.

Can I join The Floating Island SMP without being a Twitch streamer or YouTuber?

Yes, The Floating Island SMP is open to all players who want to join the community and have fun!

The Sanctuary

Sanctuary, smp

Hey! Welcome to the Sanctuary!

We’re a Hermitcraft like SMP, with a world just over two weeks old, and we’re looking for new players! If you’re looking for that ‘fresh’ but well run feel, we’re the server for you! New players will not feel out of place here, as it’s been a while for everyone, and we’re in a brand new discord and world and can’t wait to welcome you to the community!

To keep things simple, here’s what we can offer you:

– Dynmap with Pins, 10K x 10k World Border with Expansions ✅

– No AFK Kick ✅

– Active, Friendly, and Welcoming Discord! ‘Family Feel’ vs ‘Commercial Feel’ ✅

– Server Build Team – Applications Encouraged From Everyone! ✅

– Frequent and Engaging Events – Base Tours, Build Competitions, Game Nights etc ✅

– Beautiful Shopping District, Nether Hub and Portal Room Plans ✅

– End Dimension Frequently Reset for Elytra Finding ✅

– No Cheating – Every Diamond Mined is Checked for X-Ray ✅

– 5th Season, Experienced, Active and Friendly Staff ✅

– Optional Proximity Chat ✅

How to Apply

You can apply with the link below which will take you to the Discord where you can fill in a quick application! We accept all applications that are friendly and enthusiastic so don’t worry too much! Just be yourself and show us you’re interested and you’ll soon be on your way to becoming a part of the family! We have information on the discord about the server so you can make sure it’s the right place for you before you apply! See you soon!

https://discord.gg/P3CU89cQ

RLCraft Facitons Server

Facitons, Modded, Rlcraft, Server

PumpKraft is a modded minecraft community with a fresh new Factions RLCraft server! Fresh world, fresh loot and beautiful spawn area. Feel free to join our server directly or our discord! https://discord.gg/pumpkraft Server Information:

Modpack: RLCraft v2.9.3

IP: rlc.pumpkraft.net

Some of our added features are: – Economy system: Jobs to pick from to earn money. – Shop Signs: Ability to create your own shop and start selling items. – Claiming Protection: Protect your base and gain claim blocks over time. – Grief Protection: Customizable settings for your claim. – Factions: Create a faction and grow your power overtime! We always make an effort to keep this community positive and productive for everyone, and everyone is welcome!

Duality SMP

Duality, Semi Vanilla, smp

Duality SMP is a survival multiplayer server similar to Hermitcraft in spirit: mostly vanilla with a few quality of life plug-ins; small and friendly community; group events / teamwork; shopping district, etc. We are community-run — major decisions, plugins/datapacks, updates, events, and server software are decided together, transparently. Admins have the same rank and voice as other Duality members.

We will be on 1.20.4 for Season 5!

In order to cultivate the best community we can, we collect and screen applications for new Dwellers, then decide together who to add to the whitelist for the next season.

We are entering our 5th season soon and will be performing a world-reset on July 1st, 2024 – on a fresh world – we’d love for you to join! Especially if you are trustworthy and work well in a team. Our players have a lot of freedom and we essentially use an honor system.

In the meantime we have a public SMP available for anyone to join! We are using a very similar setup to Hermitcraft Season 10, with a fabric server, the Simple Voice Chat mod, armor stands, vanillatweaks datapacks, etc. You only need a vanilla 1.20.4 minecraft client to join, but we also allow fabric modded clients with stuff like Litematica and MiniHUD.

Please feel free to join the discord and introduce yourself! We will be opening applications soon!

Primary IP: dualitysmp.net

You must join the discord and whitelist yourself in order to play on the temporary public server. (This is to keep out IP scanners, bots, and griefers). There are no other requirements, though. Discord: https://discord.gg/eCtcpRUj

The Real SMP

real, smp, Vanilla

Greetings from The Real SMP!

💫Are you trying to find a brand-new Full Vanilla server?

We’ve got you covered! Our intention is to deliver you a server that brightens your day.

🌟Which features do we offer?

We offer a stable and secure atmosphere. We offer a server that is appropriate for all gaming needs and runs continuously around the clock. We use one of the strongest anti-cheat systems so you can be sure a hacker won’t ruin your gaming experience!

🌠 Player Shops!!

Create a shop and sell items! Design a shop how you want it to be! Big? Small? Vintage?

🪧 Spawn Protection!

We protect spawn so people have a place to be welcomed into! Want to build in spawn? Apply for spawn permissions!

🎉 Giveaways!

We like to give back to the members that keep our server alive! Play with friends and enter giveaways!

🆕Vanilla Plus!

Choose how you want to play the server! Vanilla or Semi-Vanilla? Up to you!!!

❓Thus, why should you come along?

Then again, why not? Your requirements are completely met by us! In order for us to grow into a more vibrant community, please join our server!

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/VpgURMYpyu

IP: mc.therealsmp.com

Website: https://therealsmp.com/

Idiots In A Rock

idiots, Rock, Vanilla

Ok hi. Overlong life story of this server:

so basically me and my group of friends have gone through a cycle of starting up heavily modded SMP type servers with most of them dying out after only a few weeks. We’ve come up with various attempts to solve our inevitable server burnouts which is a situation I’m sure many of you can relate to.

And we’ve come up with a solution… by stripping back the game and harnessing the classic golden age mindset, by starting a vanilla server and just… playing the game without any massive preconceptions or goals or ideas.

The server started off pretty normally. A few of us sorta scattered in different directions and started building bases or whatever. But one of us decided right off the bat to create a lavacast at spawn… ok, why the fuck would you do that??

Well maybe we were all feeling a little bored of playing the game normally, because we started actually helping the guy expand the cobblestone lavacast since frankly it was kinda funny.

Well, this and that happened and we are now basically termites that live inside of a cobbblemonster that is slowly but surely growing due to our grueling efforts of placing down lava and water buckets respectively. It even got big enough to swallow an entire village which was basically casted by the descending lava. Sorta like one of those anthill videos on youtube.

If you’re looking for a chill, simple but gimmicky vanilla experience that hearkens back to the old MC days, feel free to join us. We don’t intend to grow that big or anything; we’re just a group of friends bein dudes inside of a stupid mass of cobblestone. God we hate it here. Fuck.

Here’s our discord: https://discord.gg/xdsTF9PA9n

Epirate – 1700s themed Geopolitical towny server

1700s, Epirate, Factions, Geopolitical, Server, Themed, Towny

Epirate is a geopolitical towny server set in the 1700s with custom weapons and Armor, fully functional warships, Cannons.

Create your own town and nation, fight in wars, capture naval regions and more!

| 🌍 | Earth Map + Live Map

| ⚔️ | Custom Weapons and Armor

| 🦈 | Sea Monsters

| ⛵ | Player-built ships!

| 🔥 | Wars and naval regions

| 💰 | Economy

| 🐟 | Advanced Fishing system

| 🔗 | Discord – https://discord.gg/auG8XfWmj9

| 🔗 | Trailer – https://youtu.be/ozYxswOib-I?si=Q7y3SwkREAVmm1N8

| 🔗 | Map – https://epiratemap.pixelnetwork.uk/

SERVER DETAILS

IP: Epirate.usga.me

Bedrock IP: 185.207.164.1

Bedrock Port: 33181

Version – 1.20.4 (but you can join on any version, 1.20.4 is recommended)

IMPORTANT – Server is currently closed and will reopen in April

xapros junior high

HIGH, Júnior, Semi Vanilla, xapros

Some info:

Our server has some of the new 1.21 blocks enabled, the tuff blocks, copper blocks & crafter! (we’re waiting for 1.21 to update everything else)
We have holiday themed events every few months filled with minigames and collectable items!
We’re whitelist only so no dealing with random rogue players 🙂
We have 5-15 different players who log on daily
We always have many new people, so no matter the age of our world, you’ll never be behind!
Zero lag and 24/7 uptime
We’re a no reset server so your base will always be saved no matter how inactive you are
No land claims, tps or any immersion breaking mods that take you out of the vanilla feeling
Strict rules against stealing/hacking/griefing!
Some of our builds: https://imgur.com/a/R8w0cZ9

Join the discord to apply! https://discord.com/invite/NeekSj856k

🌋MagmaCraft SMP

MagmaCraft, smp, Vanilla

Hey There, Welcome to 🌋MagmaCraft SMP!

Would you like to join? Press Here Or Press the link below!✅https://discord.gg/3FH8dfFN✅

🤔Have you been looking for a HermitCraft type server that is still new? Well your in luck, Our server just opened!

About us

Magmacraft SMP is a new HermitCraft like server. We try and offer a great and fun community to engage with while maintaining a vanilla experience to the user (apart from a few datapacks toenhance the gameplay experience.

Although the server is fresh and we haven’t been online for long, we look forward to finding new members to make this community as awesome as it can be!

How to join?

Joining is quite easy! Follow the link on top of this post and join the discord server! From there we ask you to answer a few questions via an application. After we have received your application we will review it and whitelist you to the server if you made it in

(note: we are not too strict with the applications, we just want to find people that suit our server the best!)

What do we offer?

By joining our (awesome) SMP server, we offer you the following:

– Fun, Active and Nice community

– A 24/7 Running Minecraft Server

– HermitCraft like server with shopping district

– The best possible time!

🙌So what are you waiting for! Join our discord and make MagmaCraft SMP Awesome!!!🙌

AZPBMD

AZPBMD, semi anarchy

Throughout is more than 4 year run, AZPBMD (A Zombie Pigman Broke My Door) has been a place for anyone who wants to try out NO HACKS ANARCHY to test their mettle. Mega builders, PVPers, and grifers alike come together to create a world full of surprises. From a Wither infested, lava filled spawn chasm to grand pyramids hundreds of blocks wide, you never know what you might come across here. Curious to see what it’s all about? Join us and you can do anything you want, the only limit is yourself!

Server info:

Host: dontplaythisserver.com (USE THIS TO CONNECT)

Website: https://www.azpbmd.com/

Rules: No hacked clients of any kind, no x-raying of any kind. The only approved clients are vanilla and optifine. Any client that allows hacks will result in a ban.

Warning: Chat is unmoderated, so if you are a parent you might consider this server inappropriate for your children.

Minecursed

Minecursed, Vanilla

We are a small community looking for more friends to join along. Our goal is to provide a fun Vanilla Minecraft experience enriched with quality-of-life datapacks. We are passionate about fostering creativity, storytelling, and a strong sense of community. At Minecursed SMP, we place utmost importance on the values of trust, respect, and dignity.

Community Values

In our community, we highly value:

Trust: Trust is the foundation of our community. We rely on each other and trust that our members will contribute positively.
Respect: We treat all members with respect, acknowledging the unique qualities and ideas each individual brings.
Dignity: We maintain the dignity of every member, creating an environment where everyone can be themselves.

Playstyles

We welcome all kinds of playstyles, and you don’t have to be a master builder or a redstone genius to join. As long as you are willing to try and learn along the way, you are welcome in our community.

Building Friendships

We highly value making friendships that will last a lifetime. Our goal is to create connections within the community that go beyond the game.

Server rules:

Racism, shaming, harassment or bullying to others will not be tolerated.
Griefing is not tolerated!
Stealing is not tolerated!
Cheating and abusing exploits is not tolerated!(No client-side mods that provide an unfair advantage. Mods like shulker tooltips and inventory tweaks are allowed)
No politics or religious conversations
PvP is enabled but allowed only when both players consent.
Don’t be an arse.
Respect and maturity are key.
Use common sense.
Don’t destroy landscape for no reason
Discord is required.

If you also want to become a part of our community, we would be very happy to see your application🤗

Server location: Europe, Germany

Some screenshots: Gallery

Google forms: Application