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A week ago I posted here about rebuilding Castle Crafters — a small factions server I played on as a kid that shut down years ago. I wasn't sure if anyone would care. Turns out some of you did.
In the first week we've got a Discord with ~20 people, about 5 regulars logging on for hours every day, and a few players already past 50 hours played. One of them volunteered to be staff and now covers EU hours while I'm on during NA daytime. We've got a guy running a villager trading hall, someone grinding spawners with 300k+ in the bank, and people actually talking to each other in chat.
Since launch I've also been building custom plugins for the server — a full spawner tier progression system, a proper admin shop with balanced pricing, vote rewards, leaderboards at spawn, and more coming. The server isn't static. It's actively being developed based on what the community wants.
What we've got now that we didn't a week ago:
The vibe is still the same as day one: small, chill, community-first. My girlfriend who had never touched Minecraft joined and figured it out. A guy from Europe found us and now he's one of the most active players on the server. Nobody's getting griefed. People are just building, grinding, and hanging out.
If you missed the first post or were on the fence — now's still early. The world is a week old. You can still be one of the first 20 people on the server.
IP: play.castlecrafters.net Discord: https://discord.gg/pkbSekT3Pz Version: 1.21.11 Java
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In the first week we've got a Discord with ~20 people, about 5 regulars logging on for hours every day, and a few players already past 50 hours played. One of them volunteered to be staff and now covers EU hours while I'm on during NA daytime. We've got a guy running a villager trading hall, someone grinding spawners with 300k+ in the bank, and people actually talking to each other in chat.
Since launch I've also been building custom plugins for the server — a full spawner tier progression system, a proper admin shop with balanced pricing, vote rewards, leaderboards at spawn, and more coming. The server isn't static. It's actively being developed based on what the community wants.
What we've got now that we didn't a week ago:
- Custom domain (play.castlecrafters.net) + DDoS protection
- A real economy with jobs, a shop, and vote rewards
- Spawner tiers — kill mobs to unlock better spawners, 12 tiers from chicken to wither skeleton
- Leaderboards for balance, mob kills, playtime, and crops
- Hard mode enabled because the community voted for it
- One staff member with more applications opening as we grow
The vibe is still the same as day one: small, chill, community-first. My girlfriend who had never touched Minecraft joined and figured it out. A guy from Europe found us and now he's one of the most active players on the server. Nobody's getting griefed. People are just building, grinding, and hanging out.
If you missed the first post or were on the fence — now's still early. The world is a week old. You can still be one of the first 20 people on the server.
IP: play.castlecrafters.net Discord: https://discord.gg/pkbSekT3Pz Version: 1.21.11 Java
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