SteelMC
SteelMC is a chill Economy SMP server with all the good stuff for players! They keep adding cool stuff and talk a lot with the community. If you like EconomySMP, you gotta check this out!
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Isle of Kleos is a community driven modded Minecraft server on 1.18.2 and it is starting Season 4.
This season is dragon themed and the world is built around that vibe.
The big idea is that players help shape the server. The staff listens to feedback and makes changes over time. They also want the server to last a long time and they are looking for more players.
This is a vanilla survival server with a small friendly community that plays a lot.
It stays close to normal Minecraft but it uses a few ease of life data packs like single player sleep.
People have a shopping district and they run community events sometimes. They are looking for more active members to join.
The world has been up for about 3 months so players are all at different stages and that is totally normal here.
This server is ultra hardcore so you do not naturally heal and if you die you are out. The whole vibe is one life to live your best life and you try to stay alive as long as possible.
There is a point system that makes everything feel like a score chase. You get points for each minute you stay alive and for the experience you earn. Even mobs and big goals can give huge points like the dragon.
If you mess up and die you can try to earn a revive back to the Overworld by winning the weekly Sunday competition. Sundays also have a special team competition and the prizes can include a revive or an in game advancement shout out.
You start in a spawn ship until you are ready to enter the world. You can also check the top scoring players by holding a bone block.
The server uses an Apocalypse DataPack that makes the world way scarier. Zombies can turn dead players into zombies and some skeletons are enhanced. Bats can bite and spiders can spin webs and there are other dangerous creatures like the Litch Herobrine and Medusa.
Rules are simple. Play fair and friendly and do not use unfair client mods. No hacking and no xray packs and no hacked clients.
MineRealm is a public SMP that has been running since 2010 and a ton of players have joined over the years. It feels like a long term survival place where people actually stick around and build stuff together.
The server stays close to vanilla but it adds a few custom features to help the community and keep survival interesting. The map is smaller and it expands over time with new land generating on the latest Minecraft version.
It is 100 percent legit survival with no pay to win and no item spawning. Builds are protected with a classic plot system and grief protection using CoreProtect. There are no world resets so your builds can stay forever and the world is shaped by players not prefab hubs.
I found a Vanilla Java SMP that is starting Season 2 on a fresh world but it is inside an already established server. It feels like a place where your builds are supposed to last and not get wiped out fast.
When you join you spawn in a central hub and you can pick where you want to play. There is the brand new Season 2 world. There is also a Season 1 world that has over 2300 in game days and it is already built up. There is also a creative superflat world for testing and planning.
The server runs on 1.21.11 Java using PaperMC and it is online 24 7. It is whitelisted and you have to join the Discord and apply to get in. They say it keeps out griefers and protects long term builds. It is meant to feel like pure vanilla with only light quality of life and protection plugins and no mods or gameplay changes.
The community is small and chill and focused on building. It sounds best for people who want towns cities castles mega bases terraforming and big community projects for the long run.
