Shiny Network

This server is a vanilla anarchy survival world that starts you in the middle of the ocean. When you join you have to swim or use a boat and find land before you can really build or explore. It feels like an adventure right from the first minute.

The world has been around since 2011 so the terrain is super mixed. You can find really old areas and ruins and if you travel far enough you can reach newer land that was generated after 2014. Sometimes player and mob heads drop in combat so fights can give you cool trophies.

The server uses a few simple datapacks that give you commands like trigger home and trigger spawn. You can set up to 10 homes which makes moving around the giant old world a lot easier. Nothing else really changes the gameplay so it still feels like classic vanilla Minecraft.

There are only two rules. You have to treat other players with respect and you cannot try to crash the server on purpose. Besides that almost anything is allowed. Griefing is allowed and hacked clients are allowed too so you need to be careful and smart about your builds.

Most people playing are in their mid twenties or older. A lot are from the US and there are also some Russian and Polish speakers. The vibe is pretty relaxed and not super structured so you can just do your own thing and explore or fight or build how you want.