Exploring the 5 OLDEST Minecraft Servers…

Old minecraft servers some of the most popular videos and channels on youtube are centered around them that being said much of what’s publicly known and many of the videos you see have only really talked about two of the game’s oldest servers minecraft online and 2b2t what’s most interesting is that both are not

Actually the oldest out there in fact there are another three servers which rival their age one of which being an entire year older and these servers have some seriously interesting history to them but is still so unknown so today i’m going to explore with you and uncover the five

Oldest minecraft servers and i’ll be telling you their history and information about them along the way we’ll be going through in order from newest to oldest and i guarantee that you will be surprised so let’s begin alright so we gotta get this one out of the way

First 2b2t the oldest anarchy server in minecraft i’m sure you already know a lot about it and because you probably have heard about the server so much i’m going to keep this section brief so we can actually get to the more interesting servers 2b2t began in december of 2010 created

By the infamous house master as the server is anarchy hacking griefing offensive language you name it is allowed 2b2t is often considered the second oldest minecraft server as its map has not been reset since it started but it is actually the youngest server on this list as every other server has been

Operating for longer the server is also by far the most popular of all servers we’ll be talking about today easily getting thousands of logins each day so much to the point where they needed to implement a queue the server has rich history with much left to explore and discover over the massive unrestricted

World some of the biggest and most interesting bases have been built on the server displaying its community’s dedication and while the community is undeniably toxic what makes the server so special is the groups which have formed and the events such as incursions solely organized by players that have shaped the server

In a community so deadly the lights that shine through are truly the brightest one of my favorite things about 2b2t is the spawn mason server archive which is actually a separate server run by the spawnmasons group here you can find in-game archives of various famous builds and some of them are truly incredible

Alright now that we’ve got that out of the way let’s begin talking about some of the more unknown servers miner.org is probably the second most unknown server on this list but is also probably the most unique as unlike the rest of the servers we’ll be covering today it’s not a survival server but

Rather a challenge server before we get into it though consider subscribing and come check out my own server where we are bringing back the classic style of minecraft anyways miner.org began on october 22 2010 and is the oldest challenge server to exist within the game dedicated to parkour adventure maps and

Challenges such as puzzles and mazes the server has been running the same world since its inception and many older challenges and builds from then are still playable today what makes the server so unique is not only its history and decade old parkour’s mazes and challenges but also its

Interesting approach to gain access to features on the server if you want to gain build rights and be able to submit your own parkours and challenges you have to gain membership on the server first the only way to gain membership is through completion of hardcore challenges which as i discovered are

Actually very difficult and the only way you can get access to those difficult hardcore challenges is to complete standard difficulty maps or challenges and gain points so those who acquire membership are referred to as green players and are well respected in the community because it takes quite a

Lot of effort to get there those who complete certain challenges and maps are also able to obtain rare cosmetics a gift given to them for their accomplishments the server is very community driven containing over 400 different parkour courses challenges maps and puzzles all built by the active community of players

Due to the service age some of their challenges and player builds have been completed well over a hundred thousand times meaning that it’s likely they’ve been played by hundreds of thousands of unique players truly incredible these days majority of new challenges are located on their newer creative world named theda but

That doesn’t at all detract from the server’s unique history it’s also very active and they get anywhere between 50 to 100 players online in peak times running competitions and events regularly as you can see on their website helps keep the community active and gives them various rewards and prizes to aim for

The server is also in no way paid a win and has actually been entirely donation free so funded by the owners for its entire decade lifetime it’s a very healthy player-driven community exemplifying what a minecraft server should look like the next server we’re going to talk

About is likely the most unknown of the bunch crazy fools uk the server based in the united kingdom if you couldn’t tell by the name first opened its doors all the way back in 2010 the 4th of august to be specific unsurprisingly this is also the day minecraft alpha version 1.0.15 was

Released the first version of the game which introduced survivor multiplayer the smp features a variety of unique plugins like their shop plugin and it’s clear that over the past decade the server has differentiated itself from others notably they were one of the first servers where you would have to link

Your account to their forums in order to build a method implemented to counteract griefing they were pretty crafty especially for the time on youtube there are some videos of the server dating all the way back to 2010 and they were actually one of the more popular servers back then

Anyways while we look around their survival world i thought it would tell you a bit about the server’s history as stated on their website the first week the server was running the uptime was horrible and also due to the fact that minecraft wasn’t nearly as secure the server encountered many

Cheaters who utilized even the most basic of cheats to ruin the survival experience it wasn’t until about a week later that plugins began appearing that helped protect servers the server was initially run on a windows 2003 computer with only 8 gigabytes of memory suffering frequent crashes however it still managed to draw many

Players once again leading to the problem of griefing so to counteract the griefing the server went semi-private as i mentioned earlier they have a unique method of connecting your minecraft account to your forum account and thus email which is required to actually build blocks and interact with the game

This successfully helped reduce the number of griefers and according to their website they managed to build a community of over 1500 members after not too long but later that year in october the server shut down only to open back up again a few days later on a more powerful computer and

Managed to once again build an active community to this day the server is still up and running and while the current map is not the original from 2010 it’s still six to seven years old with a rich and interesting history according to players the older maps were

Reset due to dupe glitches as well as just general resets to allow players to explore new chunks but they do have renders of some of their old maps from 2011 on their website which are very cool to look at when i logged on to explore the server

The players were very nice and friendly and were happy to answer my questions it felt like a very mature and welcoming community that kept active by hosting weekly events overall it really felt like a blast from the past i definitely recommend you check it out speaking of servers which began on the

Same day that minecraft multiplayer first released minecraft online currently is most commonly recognized as the world’s oldest minecraft server due to the fact that they are still using the exact same map they started on all the way back on august 4th 2010. named freedonia their s p world has

Never been restored or regenerated and is currently growing to 30 kilometers in diameter or 30 000 blocks the server has seen over 230 000 unique logins getting hundreds of new players every day almost like a museum the server is very serious about preserving their history and has an active and dedicated staff

Team that will protect their server if players think they can get away with griefing what i personally like about the server is their dedication to still providing a pure survival fill where they don’t give out any items for free and all the resources used to build were obtained legitimately in survival mode

They have many builds all around the server with an active community and recently updated from 1.7.10 to 1.12.2 after running on 1.7 for six and a half years once again like all the servers we have been talking about today the community was very welcoming and friendly as is

Common observers with more mature player bases besides having the longest running and oldest map to date the server also has other unique features and plugins and was the first to have a game linked irc channel now due to the server’s age it has a lot of history and they have done a really

Good job of keeping majority of the events and occurrences documented as you can see on their wiki page they’ve kept track of everything from moderator and admin promotions to plugin additions and banned milestones leading to some amusing situations while browsing through the timeline i saw a documented case of a moderator

Reaching a banned milestone for the server of 39 000 players only to be demoted a week later there is a lot of history to uncover here and as such i’m not going to be getting into it but if you’re curious you can read the wiki yourself

What i did find very cool was some early screenshots that display what certain locations such as spawn originally look like and is very fun to contrast and compare to this day minecraft online is still an active server with a community dedicated to preserving the vast history it has acquired a true artifact

Of the past now this might come as a surprise to you all but what if i told you that the real oldest minecraft server began on june the 10th 2009. you might be confused as even i mentioned earlier that survival multiplayer wasn’t released then and wouldn’t come out for another year

Unbeknownst to most multiplayer minecraft was actually first available all the way back on june the 8th 2009 in classic version 0.0.16a back then however minecraft was still being played in the browser and this version of multiplayer was basically a version of creative mode on a tiny restricted map with limited

Blocks nevertheless communities began forming one such being the mc public or nerd.nu community back then they were small and casual just building and enjoying themselves on their classic world they often reset the map every week or so due to its limited size and as such unfortunately many of these

Old classic worlds have been lost to time that being said there is recorded footage of their creative world from march the 14th 2010 and they have publicly accessible world downloads of their seventh revision or map of creative which began all the way back in september of 2010 and since then they’ve archived a

Majority of their maps and have well over 30 different maps of creative alone nerd.nu was one of the first minecraft multiplayer communities and for some time was the official minecraft subreddit server as the game further developed they would release survival multiplayer alongside their creative server their survival server was very popular

At the time with developers such as jeb and dinnerbone visiting them and many videos being created on them some of which have hundreds of thousands of views alongside their creative and survival server they also ran a pve server which is basically survival but without player vs player combat

Their pve server has a long history of over 25 different revisions first dating back to early 2011 pve still one of their most popular game modes today and has an active and healthy community so you see while nerd.nu no longer use their oldest maps or don’t have the longest continuously running maps

They’re clearly the oldest server because the server is more than just the map a world is running but also the community players and history associated with it if you want to check out their extensive history of map revisions then be sure to go to their website where they have

Archived the vast majority of them one thing i loved about many of the servers we talked about today is that the communities feel exactly like they used to all those years ago you see most big servers these days have very boring or stale communities a majority of minigame servers have a very

Lifeless feel i can’t count the number of times i’ve joined a server and asked for help just to be ignored but the servers we talked about today were all very friendly and their communities are definitely very mature i hope you enjoyed the video be sure to subscribe and follow me on twitter links

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