TheMisterEpic and a dupe crew flooded Vintage Beef's new skyblock server and its sister project with 3 quadrillion Sky Coins worth an absurd 14 billion dollars in real money value. Rollbacks failed. Legit players lost progress and got banned anyway. One server is already dead.
Pay to win servers love to brag about being unbreakable. TheMisterEpic just proved otherwise in spectacular fashion. In a video published at the end of April, he and a team from the Dupers United Discord targeted two freshly launched skyblock servers: Vintage Sky from Vintage Beef and FZY.gg. What started as a test escalated into one of the largest documented dupe runs in recent memory.
Built to Print Money
Both servers ran near identical pay to win setups featuring twelve different crates packed with powerful items, gambling mechanics, and a premium currency called Sky Coins. These coins upgraded islands, leveled up players, and unlocked skin crate keys that sold for real money at around three dollars and fifty cents each. The model was aggressive. Late game advantages were effectively gated behind spending, exactly the kind of setup that attracts both big spenders and people looking for shortcuts.
The Timing Exploit
The method was deceptively simple but tricky to execute. Players would teleport from spawn to their island, drop valuable items with a macro, then immediately kick themselves back to spawn. Perfect timing left the dropped items in inventory while the duplicates appeared on the island. The crew ran seven accounts across both servers, focused on duping Sky Coins to dodge detection systems, and used mods to locate and distribute the haul. One Australian host struggled with ping, requiring dozens of attempts.
The scale was ridiculous. On Vintage Sky alone the group accumulated over three quadrillion Sky Coins. At the listed rates that equated to fourteen point three billion USD in equivalent value. They distributed trillions in notes to random players across different zones. Many recipients were brand new to public servers and had no idea what was happening. Chat filled with confused messages like “Why do I have twenty trillion Sky Coins” while some spammed duped crate keys and triggered server wide announcements.
The Cleanup Was Worse
Both servers went down for rollbacks that repeatedly failed. Players lost hours of legitimate progress including high tier spawners and upgrades. Some who simply picked up what appeared to be free currency were hit with bans. Discord erupted with complaints about unfair treatment and calls for the staff to have simply shut everything down sooner. TheMisterEpic even hopped into a voice call with a manager named Lyanne who sounded thoroughly fed up.
The damage proved permanent. FZY.gg saw its player counts collapse and fully shut down, with promotional videos scrubbed and the IP redirected to another project. Vintage Sky lingers but with a fraction of its launch population and minimal momentum. Comments on related videos now mostly tell Beef to stick to Hermitcraft. The operation succeeded in its apparent goal of exposing and ruining the monetization model.
This is not some obscure indie server imploding. It is a project connected to a longtime Hermitcraft member that promised a premium experience and delivered chaos instead. The video stands as primary evidence of exactly how these economies break and who ends up paying the price. If you are still dropping real money on skyblock crates in 2026, consider this a loud warning.
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