Joining Abandoned Minecraft Servers

It's pretty depressing knowing that these server are still up but rarely anyone plays on them. Somehow I think it just signals the end of an era to extent.

the reason the servers are still up are either 1. server owner forgot their paying for it and still use the payment method 2. they bought the domain and server hosting/vps for x amount of years and the plan is still up (most likely imo) 3. server is now used for memories/friends thats what I assume atleast

Man, Dancraft was the server I played from 2013 onwards, I remember it’s decline and everything. Quite emotional to see on your video… crazy how times change

Wow... The fact that EMC ended up on there is surprising. I remember playing back when it was really popular and then there was a lot of controversy with staff and many players left for new servers or just stopped playing. Back when Mixer was a thing, stream base was amazing! There was a partnered streamer who exclusively played there with their followers.

i remember this kingdom server back in 2011, my first ever server. it was such a cozy community, you lived in a kingdom and could build your own house and ask the "queen" or "king" to protect your little plot so no one could grief it and they'd tp to you to do it personally. both my cousins were banned from it and whoever gets banned would get a gravestone in the graveyard lmao

that weird feeling when you join one of these servers is probably the fear of liminal spaces - when we see a place where we expect a lot of people to be in, but there are none.

The 1.19 thing could be explained by the possibility that the activity on the server died down, the update was announced, players on the discord were hyped and asked to update to that version, but in a new world. The owner did, and only a few people played. That is essentially what happened on my server. On my server, it was a combination of players realizing they miss the old world, plugins taking a long while to update (some of them long since being abandoned), and some players essentially speedrunning through the world, then griefing everyone else

It’s so weird seeing these servers frozen in time. Reminds me of a tekkit server I used to play on WAY after most people moved on. It got to the point where only me and a couple of players played at once. Eventually I was all alone many times… that’s probably when I moved on too… sad to think it’s probably dead now

it's crazy how "smp" changed meanings throughout the years

it was cool to see that you played ecocitycraft! I joined the same way you found it: searching for old servers. I don't play anymore but I made some good friends there who are quite sweet, the owner claire is always on and happy to chat with the community too. I actually asked her once in a vc about the pay to win aspects of the server and she explained that it is mostly cosmetic. If you ask anyone within the community they'll say it's not really pay to win aswell. The server kits are expensive as hell so if anyone does get one they had to shell out a huge donation, which honestly makes sense because to keep that server up they need it. It's a huge server data-wise. If you ever hop back on go visit my dead town of Zealandia.

When the game was dominantly based on building, there was a clear division between regular players and griefers. To get past this before all the pay to win garbage (servers did have donation ranks but they really cared about you voting for them), servers either had whitelists or permissions based "initiations" where you would have to answer a quiz after reading the rules or even make multiple forum posts before getting whitelists/perms. This only increased with admission to a township.

This video was genuinely really good! Keep up the good work and you'll grow in no time!

9:36 I bet the reason that the server is still up is that it runs on a provider that auto-charges your bank account, and the server owner either forgot about the server or still keeps it running, because it does not cost that much.

I used to play on cowcraft in like 2014, it was a fun server, mostly creative and hunger games, though there was a survival world on there as well

I used to play on a few of these (Craftgasm, OriginPVP, Dancraft, and Cowcraft), and I recall meeting quite a few people on them. I had a little base on Dancraft below ground, and was just absolutely devoted to the underground lifestyle. That was years ago, man. I wonder if that base is still out there, somewhere, with all of that stuff and our pets.. Man, now I'm sad.

Damn, didn’t expect to come across a small channel, visiting old mc servers is actually a fucking interesting idea.

Your videos are so fun to watch man you’ll definitely become much more popular really quickly

In case you're wondering ecosity craft is actually a economy based server and gear does not do a whole lot for this server and is not pay to win whatsoever so this server is actually pretty fun if you want an economy based server

glad this video got recommended by YouTube because this is a hidden gem