# About us Since we started, Elysia has been a community above all else. There are players who’ve been with us since day 1, and players I’ve come to know as close friends. I love seeing the friendships form and the collaboration between players. While marked as semi-vanilla, the server experience is pure vanilla. We just use a few plugins to prevent grief, hook into discord, have a web map, etc.
[Click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2GHgv_6y_g) for a video tour around an earlier season 🙂
[and here](https://imgur.com/gallery/IGjMTMB) for some pics of what we’ve got up to so far this season!
# Who are we Looking for? **Elysia is a whitelisted server**, which is an important filter in making sure everyone you’ll meet is friendly, accepting and an overall pleasant addition.
**16+ Dedicated Players**. We’re aiming to create some masterpieces of community projects this season, and have shifted focus toward older and more dedicated players. If you’re a master redstone engineer or have some outlandish build plans, Elysia’s the perfect place. This isn’t to say, however, that we’re not still just as welcoming to players of all skill levels and time to spend.
**LGBTQ+ Friendly** is a core belief of ours, and inclusivity is something we won’t compromise on.
# Ready to Join? If Elysia sounds right for you, apply for our whitelist via http://whiteli.st/ and join the Discord waiting room [Discord server](https://discord.gg/nTQZuBv).
**IP: minec.art** *(requires whitelist)*
# Features * A web based map rendered in the highest quality & with multiple perspectives to admire your builds or spy on others. * Gradual world border expansion keeping things fresh. * Weekly newsletter ran by the community, summarizing happenings, announcing events or advertising services and shops. * Comprehensive systems in-place to prevent, detect & seamlessly revert grief. * Adult staff team with years of experience and void of power complexes. * No pay-to-win or otherwise biased and unfair mechanics. * Opt-in only PVP * Decisions made by community vote * Sleep skip
# A Quick Summary of Things we DON’T Have Keep inventory, different modes than survival, plugins that change the vanilla experience, plugin/money based economy.
# Additional Info * Elysia’s currently **hosted in the US**, and has some fancy pants hardware to boot. 16GB of dedotaded wam, a Ryzen™ 9 7950X processor, NVMe SSD Storage, all working in harmony to provide a lag-free experience to connections all over the world. world.