How To Make A Popular SMP Server Like DreamSMP

I know what you’re here for you want your greasy hands on those beautiful beautiful secrets that help those successful smps become really really popular i’ll tell you right now it’s right here in this beautiful little envelope you see over the past couple of months i’ve done

A lot of research into smps or the one from the past and see how they did well and what made them do so well as well as looking at all the failures and why those things failed but you see their own problem here this envelope is currently locked and will only unlock if

You go down then hit that like button hit that subscribe button and that bell then it will unlock have you done it yet ah someone hit that bell anyway let’s get started good enough with the ridiculous editing let’s actually get into the actual video as i said earlier i’ve been doing a lot

Of research looking into smp servers and just discovering what works well what doesn’t work what things have made them successful and etc etc but at this point i’m just rehashing what i said in that intro so let’s actually get started what are some good things that allow smp servers to be successful

Of course before i actually say anything more it’s not a foolproof type of thing this is just using what i’ve seen from the successful smps and just maybe try and implement them into your own see what happens can’t guarantee any form of success from this especially right now while the

S p landscape is so goddamn crowded so let’s go through the first thing that everyone should do when you start up on your snp server communication of course one of the biggest things that helps an smp server run as well as it possibly can be and make it

As possible to last a fair amount of time is of course communication unfortunately we’ve seen so many different s p servers fall apart just due to lack of communication between the leaders the stories and all the things to do with the server itself a really good example of a server that’s currently

Fumbling due to miscommunication mismanagement and things on those lines is the epic smp server so those who’ve watched this channel and came from the epic smp stuff i hate to point it out like that if you watch the last video you’ll understand essentially one of the biggest flaws

That are happening with the epic smp server is just a lack of communication with how the entire thing was originally structured for example the law of the surf was only communicated to five different people and was up to those people to just guide everyone else through it and unfortunately

Two of those people don’t even play in the server anymore haven’t been on since like the very first week and so a majority of the law just got thrown to the side while the server decided to die in popularity as well as the owners of the server not being as communicative as

They possibly could with the server members there is some things going around saying that matt’s just been busy he’s been stuck up in an airbnb while his friend goes through covert quarantine things along those lines but he hasn’t been quite open with communication lines with everyone else

In the actual server itself and of course the server members just think he’s just disappeared and he doesn’t care anymore and then the last part to this point is of course making sure that all the people you want to invite you actually formally invite ask them if they want to

Join and then actually before you announce them being a part of it you actually know that they want to be a part of it and will actually play if too many things fail with communication between you and your server members unfortunately just one of the biggest things that happens is that

It entirely falls apart and as it continues to fall apart it looks completely misorganized and unorganized to the viewers who are watching it and of course they will stop watching it because it’s no longer seemingly as organized as what it once was and it seems to be all over the

Place anyway let’s move on to the next part the next cool thing that you should have in your server when it comes down to it is what is the reason you want people to watch your server is it because it’s going to have some amazing law

Is it because it’s going to be the best vanilla experience out there you’re going to have these people making amazing builds gathered a team of the best builders the best redstones and the best everything to make a beautiful looking server but you have a collection of unique people

Who have never played minecraft before or much to come in to play with this new mod that has not been touched by them and use it in a new way to make some epic fun for the people in the server and the viewers watching at home either way before you even think about

Starting an smp server you’ve got to understand what you want people to come to your server for because it’s as simple as this if it’s unorganized and there’s no core to the server no core reason why people should watch your server your server is just going to fail like the

Dark smp did arc smp had no core reason for the server exists aside from it holding a bunch of people who say edgy jokes and things along those lines darkest and feed really didn’t have our site a core aside from that and unfortunately that just wasn’t interesting enough to pull people in and

It just fumbled in the end having to call draw in and a reason why your server exists in the first place is one of the key ways to help your server have some longevity smp live was a server that lasted almost a year and it only ended because that’s where it

Met its natural ending point and the core thing that drew people into that server was the simple fact that it was always live whenever anyone was playing in the s p they’re going to be lying and they have set hit prizes that causes them to go over and interact with other

People in the server either killing people or pranking people in the server based upon who they get targeted they also organize some key events to help bring the server further together to make the bond better and make it more enjoyable to watch the viewers essentially what i’m trying

To say here is s p live is one of those key servers that hit every nail on the head when it comes to a successful smp server and of course once it’s reached its natural conclusion it ended because that’s what it has to do if you continue to try and drag

Something like that on it becomes less and less entertaining and more and more people stop watching it then ultimately becomes not worth your time and it gives a bad ending to the server’s lifespan now of course you don’t want to be over ambitious with your core identity of your server either

A very big example of a server that was overambitious of what it was trying to be was earth smp which followed up smp line essentially the entire s p was based around a real-life map of the earth in which everyone was in their own form of clan slash group of people and they

Continued to go in war with each other claiming land after land after land essentially was just that much of an over-ambitious thing that everyone in the server got burnt out and it just ended quietly it was never there in the first place dream smp is another really good example of a

Smp that understands its core and what it wants to do and what audience is trying to drag in by having some very scripted very enjoyable lore to watch and listen to once you get to know what’s happening essentially the main draw that keeps people coming back to the server

Over and over and over again is the law of the server and that perfectly moves us on to part three give your server a story now of course snp live didn’t have much of a story on its own but when put all together it becomes as much enjoyable experience that goes

On for the entire thing and of course as i’ve referenced before the dream smp is a server based entirely around the law and entirely around this story that is entirely scripted as well as having the ability just to have some fun without worrying about the law too much

As long as you don’t break a few different things and you make it clear that this isn’t a role-playing stream essentially speaking everyone on the dream s p have got their figured out on how to make a decent story how to make the s p fun for everyone the what as well as

Giving people good reasons to actually watch their streams in the first place so am i telling you to have a complicated law for your server in order for it to work no not at all i’m saying you’ve got to have some form of storyline towards your server

It can be loosely done as much as you want but it becomes one of the biggest reasons why not only people will come to watch it in the first place but will continue to rewatch old content catch back up but once people are hooked into the potential story that’s going along with

The server more and more people will make sure to keep on coming back over and over and over again of course a lot of viewers don’t like having laws and stories inside of their s p servers but unfortunately that’s just become a way of life you have to have

Some form of story or something interesting to draw in a decent audience i will have a good reason to keep on coming back essentially those are the three important things you want to make sure to implement into your smp server in order for it to

Have a chance to do well there are of course many other small bits and pieces that i didn’t bother to talk about in this video because i want to keep it short and snappy and straight to the point so you guys can get all the information into you as possible

Before again i want to go over a few things that can easily kill your server first off being unorganized i’ve already made it clear that organization is key to keeping a server running functionally the moment everything starts to get unorganized it will slowly expose itself to the viewers and then

The viewers won’t care to watch it anymore because it’s an organized mess there’s a reason why hermitcraft has lasted for so damn long because they’re organized they know what they need to do they know what they want to do they know what they want out of their server

Despite the fact that they’re in their seventh running series it’s at the most popular point that it’s ever been at the key point of organization is to organize everything that you want to start your server off with before you start the server make sure everyone in your server is on the same

Page on how you want the server to go or what’s going to be the key point and what’s going to be happening in the server let’s say if you have some law you want to make sure everyone in the server understands that law knows what to do with it

If they want to get involved in it of course don’t force everyone in your server to do this thing or do that thing as long as they understand the identity of the server and they’re willing to cooperate with those bits and pieces while making it their own unique spin in

The actual server itself then it can also end up becoming just as more popular with more people doing some different so those are my tips to you on how to run a decent smp server now i understand that i haven’t run an actual public s p server that’s popular because frankly

That’s a lot of work but with my research that i’ve looked into all these different smp servers over the past couple of months that are from years of minecraft you can understand the basics and what makes a server successful so as i said earlier if you

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