BareBonesMP is a survival server that tries to feel like old school Minecraft servers from the golden days. It is a whitelisted world so the community stays small and close and people often compare it to a hermitcraft style server.
The gameplay is mostly vanilla with some quality of life plugins. There are things like stat leaderboards and 50 percent sleep and extra player and mob heads and armor stand tools and other simple tweaks. The server runs on a dedicated machine and they say there is no lag and it stays up 24 7 and has been online for over five years.
The community is active both in game and on discord and they run different events. There are events hosted every weekend and they even do mayor elections every month. There is also an optional modded hardcore server that is cozy and not whitelisted if you want something extra hard.
The main map was reset on August 10th 2025 so the world is still fresh and people can start new bases together. They also have optional proximity voice chat and cross chat between discord and the game so players can talk and hang out easier.
To join the main server you have to get whitelisted first and they handle that through their community.
