MinecraftOnline

True survival, without the grief!

MinecraftOnline is a popular and long-standing minecraft survival multiplayer server. Find out what marks us out from the rest!

• Massive, long-established world

  MinecraftOnline has the oldest truly public map of any SMP server. Freedonia first went live the day SMP was released, and has not been restored or regenerated since, despite being live on this public server the whole time. It has grown to over 25km in diameter, and has been explored by over 40000 unique players.

• Pure survival feel

  No free kits, moderator-given freebies, item-spawning or other cheat commands. Everything you see in Freedonia has been built by hand, from legitimately harvested materials. We're sure you'll agree, this makes the epic structures here all the more impressive.

• Strong moderator team

  Our moderators are friendly, active and highly experienced. They are happy to help, and will look after your interests in Freedonia. At MinecraftOnline, being a moderator is not a privilege or a reward - it is an important responsibility.

• Zero tolerance policy to griefing

  Rather than artificially protect structures by locking them from editing with cuboid etc, we prefer to prevent griefing outright. MinecraftOnline's zero-tolerance policy is strictly enforced, and the moderators have the tools to both detect and easily repair grief. All bans are permanent.

• Serious hardware

  This server has 8x Xeon CPUs, a monster 32GB RAM, both SSD and SATA drives, is colocated in a well-connected data centre that is ideally suited to UK and European players. It has exclusive use of a 1000Mbit connection, both upstream and downstream. You won't find a less laggy server in the EU.

• Friendly community

  MinecraftOnline was the first SMP server to have a game-linked IRC channel. It has developed a wonderfully social, witty and welcoming community, which is active 24 hours a day. Many regulars connect to the IRC just to chat with those in-game, and occasionally players join the game just to chat on IRC! Find us in #minecraftonline at esper.net. See our wiki for information about how to use IRC.

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The server is currently running CanaryMod with a selection of plugins and various further homebrewed modifications.

The server rules can be seen in the moderator guide.
The server's game-linked irc channel can be found at #minecraftonline at esper.net.
The TeamSpeak server is at minecraftonline.com, default port (9987).

The chart above shows maximum and minimum player counts for the logged portion of the history of the server. No player count logs exist before the point hmod was first installed.

The chart above shows unique player counts for the logged portion of the history of the server. The lower count represents the number of different usernames to have connected to this server in any one day; the higher count represents total number of unique players to have visited the server by that day. Players to have only visited before logging began are not counted.

Enhancements

This server features multiple enhancements over the stock version, primarily anti-grief measures and secondarily for added functionality:

• Admins and mods can monitor and ban destructive players from in-game.
• Grief alert system in place, with server logging.
• TNT explosions no longer affect terrain.
• No longer possible to start fires, even with lava.
• Placed lava blocks no longer flow.
• Duplicate logins disabled.
• /PLAYERLIST command added.
• /SETHOME command added, now permanent. /SPAWN command added to return to spawn.
• /WARP command added, public warp points are shown on the map above in green.
• /LISTWARPS command added to browse the list of warps.
• /GETPOS command added, and the simpler /COMPASS for when you get lost.
• /MSG added for private messaging - along with partial username completion.
• Hourly random free gifts for all players!
• World backups are taken twice daily, and kept in duplicate off-site for additional security.
• Donation system offering access to tool and armour kits.