Campfire SMP is a small 18 plus survival server that is trying to last for years instead of just one month. It started in mid September 2025 and the plan is to keep the world long term with no resets.
The server is semi vanilla with a whitelisted player base. It runs on Purpur 1.21.9 and uses a few plugins and data packs that are mostly for quality of life and admin stuff. There is no tpa and no home commands so travel and bases feel more like normal survival.
There is already a shopping district that uses diamonds as money. Players have built nether highways a battle arena and a Christmas area. The world border is 20k by 20k so there is still a lot of room and it will grow with big updates.
Most players are in their 20s and some are older so the community feels pretty mature. People hang out in voice chat a lot either working on projects playing other games or just talking. The server is self hosted in Las Vegas and runs all day with strong hardware.
There are plugins like Bluemap Simple Voice Chat Coreprotect Artmap Imageframe Discord integration and TAB. The data packs include anti enderman griefing custom armor stands mini blocks player heads coordinates hud and husks dropping sand. It feels like normal survival but with some helpful extras and a focus on a tight friendly adult community.
