A Tribute to Minecraft’s SMP Earth

SMP Earth, The youngest non existent geopolitical  server in Minecraft was once a server I’m sure   all of my subscribers have heard of. It was  a Minecraft server whose map was a scale   replica of the earth and housed many popular  minecraft content creators such as Technoblade,  

Tommyinnit, Tubbo, and Philza. Don’t worry there  were a lot more members, but today we are gonna   talk about how I and many others fell in love  with this simple Minecraft SMP, where I feel  

The server went wrong, and how even after nearly  2 years I still have a spot in my heart for it. SMP Earth launched on November 22nd in 2019, I  know right, not too long ago. On this day A ton  

Of very fun and interesting stuff happened. Many  players went to claim the land that they wanted,   causing some conflicts immediately. One of the  more popular streamers at the time, Technoblade,   spawned in Africa and I can just remember  him trecking his way through the continent  

To get to Antarctica, which he wanted to  claim. He soon looked on the servers dynmap,   which if you didn’t know, showed the location of  every player displayed on a map of the server,   and saw a player by the name of jmak following  him. Technoblade eventually reached Antarctica and  

Eventually met up with his friend philza. And on  top of the peak of the mountain, chased jmak down   and killed him effortlessly. I remember watching  this and laughing because it was quite funny.   Techno and Philza just jumped a man with no  explanation, they just went right in. There were  

Many other conflicts similar to this where people  fought over land, but I can just remember thinking   how cool the idea of an earth server was. There  were other servers that were based off of earth,   but none of them compared to having 100 creators  all live streaming and recording their points  

Of view in a never ending conflict. Many more  conflicts occured after this such as the saga of   battles The Antarctic empire had against business  bay, where tommyinnit took on technoblade in many   battles and lost every. Single. One of them. And  also the time when Eret deleted the entire state  

Of hawaii off the map. Yeah he just kinda mined  the entire island and made it disappear. But one   of the most entertaining moments by far was when  Techno completed his goal of world domination.   See this pig man dude king really wanted to  take over the entire world, but there was a  

Small problem. Every other country had a claim on  a piece of land so Techno was unable to do that.   But he decided to do it anyway and used a glitch  on the dynmap, where it would just fill the inside  

Of any outline of a claim. So Techno claimed a  small square around the whole map and then the   entire world became his. I remember watching this  live and thinking it was the coolest thing ever,   it brings back so many good memories. Obviously at  this time I was making SMP Earth history videos,  

So Beside from watching streams and videos about  SMP Earth I just remember watching an event happen   and thinking “Oh, this will be a very good video”.  I really miss having that thought and even though   near the end of smp earth I slowed down making  videos, It was just from a lack of content  

Happening on the server. The server was overall  simply amazing, it had conflicts, wholesome   moments, and even the entertaining creators to  back it up, but then the first issues started. Now I am not a player on SMP Earth and never was  sadly, though I almost was at one point. I do  

Have some inside knowledge on why some players  stopped playing and why content slowed down.   The first issue was that there were  constant additions to players in the server.   You may think that this is not an issue  and that having more players would mean  

More content. Well, you are right but also wrong.  See there was more good content coming from some   of these added players such as Wuna301, who  had very engaging and chill live streams.   But some others did not contribute as much. Now  I am not an expert or a big creator by any means,  

But the fact that SMP Earth kept adding a bunch  of smaller creators that bolstered their numbers,   meant that some bigger creators that  should have been added to the server,   were not added. Also the fact that all of the  creators being added were smaller, meant that a  

Lower amount of people were exposed to smp earth.  This was not the biggest problem though and was   one that was kept inside the playerbase, but  one of the two problems that many creators have   voiced about is that the content got stale. Yes at  first wars were extremely fun and entertaining for  

Creators and viewers, but after a while there  was no more content you could create. Everyone   had been through multiple wars and any more was  just boring for the creators. This is completely   reasonable. I mean who could imagine dropping into  a game and doing the same thing on repeat – oh  

Sorry I got a bit sidetracked there. But the sheer  lack of fresh content on smp earth caught up to   them. The creators of SMP Earth tried adding  a few new things, but none of it was enough to  

Get SMP Eath out of their content drought and it  eventually died. Many players such as Technoblade   just stopped playing on the server completely  before the server died off. But the last   issue was a pretty big one. One of the admins,  Chippledipple, was not the best for the server…  

Now I’m not going to go into depth about chip, but  all you need to know is that he was a 4chan user.   That should tell you all you need to know  about him. After SMP Earth he was cancelled   on twitter and disappeared from the minecraft  community. To summarize the lack of big creators,  

The repetitive content, and one owner were  to attribute to the downfall of smp earth. After all this time SMP Earth is still beloved  by many fans that seek the experience of their   favorite Minecraft creators interacting. The  Dream SMP now exists, which is a story based  

Roleplay server, which many fans love.Though  there are those who don’t like the Dream SMP   having a storyline and I have a theory why.  My theory is that those who don’t like the   Dream SMP actually prefer having a loose story  with more random events happening, such as what  

Happened in smpearth. Yes you can say that there  were some basic outlines on events in smp earth,   but none of them were fully planned out, a lot  of it was improvised. The problem with this is  

That since the Dream SMP is so popular now, many  other creator smps have popped up using a roleplay   style instead of an improvisation style, leading  to many viewers being isolated from that smp,   even if they do like the creator playing on it.  And now there is a lack of SMP Earth-like smps  

With the larger creators. Many have begged SMP  Earth to come back and I can almost guarantee you   it will not within the next year or two at least.  There was even an attempted reunion about a year   after the shutdown of smpearth, but many of the  creators turned it down. This is probably because  

SMP Earth is still fresh in their minds, i mean  ever since the pandemic started everything has   felt like a flash. It feels like yesterday I was  making history videos about SMP Earth. Though many   of us want it back, the creators who are the ones  spending time on the server and making content  

Do not, and we have to respect their wishes. Who  would want forced content that would probably sour   even US of SMP Earth. The best time to bring SMP  Earth back would be when the creators are ready  

To try again. With the amount of time in between  each SMP Earth new alliances, enemies, and things   could happen that would have never happened if  it was brought back now. Though the admin of   the server Josh has stated multiple  times SMP Earth will not come back,  

It is possible maybe in a few years it  could, or atleast a reunion of some sort. Whenever I think of SMP Earth I think of  business bay and the Antarctic empire.   Even though they were only two nations on the  server, they are the most nostalgic for me. So for  

The first time in over a year we will go and visit  them and have a walk through history, so join me. To me SMP Earth was the last non modern SMP, yeah  it was somewhat recent, but it still has that same  

Nostalgia as SMPs such as SMP Live had. During SMP  Earth’s time active, Minecraft wasnt popping off   on youtube as much as it is now and everything was  truly chill. You could make 10 trillion new SMPs,   but when I watch SMP Earth videos it  brings me back to a time when I was happy.