Waychest is a custom PvE survival server that feels like you got your own private world at first. You and your friends start in something called a Journey with a random spawn point. It is all inside one shared survival world though so other people are out there too.

As you explore you start finding special Waychests and other custom stuff that points you toward places players have been before. The idea is you can follow these clues and end up crossing paths with other Journeys. Later you can even craft and place your own Waychests to lead the next group to your builds.

There is also a Waychest Flight thing where you craft an Elytra and then do an in world flying minigame through rings that ends at a Waychest made by a stranger. Fast travel exists too but it is discovery based so you have to find warp points to unlock them.

It runs on Minecraft Java 1.21.11 and works with a vanilla client. The vibe is semi vanilla SMP but with a lot of custom systems built just for this server.