How One Player made the Best Minecraft Server

This is great this is a regular Minecraft player he likes Prime his friends flying around with his elytra and generally goofing off oh and he also started this wait hold on you see those were clips from the life series but to explain just how and why these are contenders for the

Best Minecraft servers ever we have to go back it’s around the start of 2021 and green is looking at the state of Minecraft YouTube everyone seems to be making pretty much the same stuff hardcore series 100 days and he’s been making her own craft videos for nearing

On three years now all his other series build swap tutorials they’ve kind of died out and green has an idea what if he made something new something different something that hasn’t been done before what if he introduced a completely new idea to the entire Minecraft YouTube space and so green

Came up with the SMP that started all of this third life the concept is pretty simple a bunch of your favorite YouTubers trapped in a hardcore multiplayer server with a tiny World Order who are only given three lives on their first two lives everything is normal but on their third life hence the

Name they become hostile and have to try and kill every other player on the server last person standing wins through life was extremely different for green I’ve never played any kind of hardcore series ever and it was definitely a shot in the dark the series had a bunch of

New things for an audience that basically only watched hermitcraft at that point no mega builds no huge projects new people held a new server with different rules third life was nothing like hermitcraft and that made it a risk if it didn’t pay off Freedom would have spent all that time as well

As every other third life members time on a server that just didn’t work it was a gamble of Epic Proportions this was not guaranteed to work at all but it did the server was a huge success ended up with nearly 5 million views on the first video and starting one of

Minecraft YouTube’s most talked about series ever it didn’t even stop there though because after the success of third life the members took a break for making another SMP last life which arguably did even better than third life it innovated on the premise adding much more drama and tension to what was

Already one of the most emotionally charged series around and even added pearlescent Moon and mumbled the mix last life was in my opinion the best life series to date and we’ll get to why in just a second because there has been one last series double life now why do I

Think last life was the best of the three it’s fairly simple actually like I was saying last life innovated on the third life Concept in adding just a few mechanics the number of lives each player got at the start wasn’t just free anymore it was randomized from two to

Six and you’re able to give your life to another player if you wanted to like trading the last change is the most interesting one once every session one or more random non-red players people who would be friendly normally would be selected to become the boogeyman the boogeyman was the only person who knew

Who they were and unless they could kill one of their fellow friendlies one of their fellow yellow or green names by the end of the session they would instantly become a red name the next time they locked up brutal um are you the boogie man no

Why why I’m not the boogeyman are you sure the reason this made last life so interesting however was because in the initial stage of their life tension built up very slowly with no one on red lives there was no imminent danger and the series was fairly normal whereas in

Last life there was always that chance for a sudden twist took her there would always be some sort of reveal or betrayal every single episode it guaranteed that every session had at least one interesting and drama-filled storyline that impacted the entire server as friends struggled with the

Idea of betraying their own to save themselves and every non-boogeyman player was basically playing among us while also being in the series the tension the reveals and storylines that these mechanics added to last life made the most enjoyable and memorable of the three series for me especially with the

Addition of Mambo and pearl that spiced it up even more while the Sun’s setting is really to be honest with you guys yeah it’s the moment do you want a kiss right these wait oh before we move on though can we talk about how the name of

The series could not have been worse like with the first one being third life and the second one being last life and the last one being double life it’s a mess but all three of these series when viewed together could easily be considered as one of the best Minecraft

Content SPS of all time they delivered on their premise superb it performed extremely well left an impact on their viewers and didn’t stick around longer than they needed to at all they were never milked for views so with all of that context let’s talk about how it was

Done you see the people who played on the life smps were all Green’s friends which thanks to the side of YouTube that grid is on meant that most if not all of them mainly played Minecraft in a very Cooperative wholesome manner these were people that were begged to collab

Regularly and were usually pretty solitary and made content on their own or with a small group of friends but because they made similar content to each other they shared a huge amount of viewers but didn’t make content on the same server and so the member list alone

Drew interest because there were so many interactions and collaborations that people had been asking for for years there were regular faces of course to help ease viewers in and the fact that these people were friends made those collapse even more natural made them live off the standards of the viewers

Who had been hyping them up in their minds for years now I’m sorry Grant I love your back even if that wasn’t enough these were YouTubers that you were used to seeing build fairy cottages and mega bases the life series were ingenious because they took away everything that could have

Facilitated these types of playstyles the normal friendships that we were used to turn into weary alliances or conversely bonds that would never break no matter what the series had a much more serious and real kind of potent emphasized even more by the scrappy nature of the homes and houses the

Members would live in cobbled together with limited resources a far cry from the luxurious Mega bases on servers like Harvard craft or Empires just like the very premise of the life Series this was a breath of fresh air something new something different something that didn’t feel stale or played out even

Within These creative spaces and it made the series unpredictable without the safety net of their Limitless resources and insane gear these players were much more fallible they made mistakes and they behave in ways that viewers had never seen before rien was pretty literally writing fan fiction for the viewers putting their favorite skunk

Leads on scrim lows into situations that they would never normally get into and seeing how they would react the series itself was great but it always felt like you never knew what was just around the corner or who would reveal themselves as an evil monster money

And that is where the next part of all this comes in because that was Etho who’s usually pretty down to earth yelling into the mic with excitement as he gets a kill because of the inherent drama of the series like lastly for example the actual emotion and

Excitement caused by the series is very real it’s not as much role play anymore but it has that aspect meaning that everyone from Joel who barely engages in lore on the main lore server that he’s a part of to Ren who is well ren red winter is coming Milady

What have I done get personally invested in series get genuinely excited which means that all the tension and drama that’s built because of the series was well as real as it could be it was true emotion which obviously resonates with the viewers a lot more since they’re

Used to the true emotion of the creators in other videos sessions are also all recorded at the same time every week with every member playing for the whole time meaning that for the duration of that session no one knows anything behind the scenes thanks to videos being posted earlier late so they experienced

That same suspense with the audience and react naturally to it they don’t have to fake anything you are no I am the fact that sessions are recorded once a week and together also means that every element is always in play you can’t wait for someone to log off and

Sneak into their base or lay a trap they could always return at any point making the active let’s say trapping someone else’s base that much more interesting if you do it alone you run the risk of them coming back but if you get a friend to distract them your friend might

Betray you and the inherent suspense of the series only grows with each new element the fact that they’re all recorded at the same time as well also means that it didn’t die out like other smps might where one or two players stop playing and slowly the s p dies Everyone

Is always playing recording for a fairly short but intense period of time altogether also meant that the release date for videos became something of a community event everyone drops what they’re doing to go watch your new last life video and then discuss it afterwards it was a weekly series that

Everyone was talking about it’s the model which works for huge networks like HBO and it got to the point where people who knew nothing about even hermitcraft were convinced to watch it by just how interesting the discussion around it became adding on to that because of how short and high intensity each session

Was as well as how short the series themselves were all the life series were extremely easy to binge if you want to get into watching halfway through season it would usually take less than a few hours to get completely up to speed less if you used one of the Fantastic

Community recalls but that last Point might make you wonder though if there’s so little content wouldn’t people get bored in between episodes surely the series will be forgotten quickly if there was only one episode a week and you’d be completely right but there wasn’t only one episode a week

Every single member would release an episode every week right I mean with every week five or six different episodes with a different Viewpoint and a different story will be released a concept that is so fascinating that’s basically the whole gimmick of the knives out movies you see a set of

Events once with one bit of information and you build up your ideas and beliefs around that and then suddenly you are called a huge shocking piece of information that completely changes everything and see the same events again but in a completely different way you might see a crucial kill taking place in

The chat at the same point in five different episodes influencing each episode’s story uniquely the only exception to this being that people in alliances tend to have similar videos you could definitely catch up on the live series by only watching one perspective but to fully experience all

Of it and experience all the emotional highs and lows you’d have to watch more than one POV meaning not only that everyone on the server got more views but there was that much more content and depth the story that was being furthered each week the life series also weren’t completely

For Content like other recipes could end up being even though they could have conceivably gone on for much longer the creators inherently understood that keeping it short would mean that every episode mattered that it would never feel like it was stale or getting too slow that every moment felt like it had

Meaning this has also helped even more by the fact that well no one on the server is insanely good at PVP right the people who were feared were usually those who had more knowledge of the game people who could plan and theoretically outweight their opponents but in terms

Of pure PVP skill the lower skill level of basically the entire server as opposed to say a server like lifesteal SMP meant that every fight could always change with a good crit or a lucky bow shot or just the element of surprise uh what on Earth

That’s what he meant that is what he meant the lack of access to an enchantment table furthered this not only creating an interesting bargaining ship as well as other things like sugarcane and Saturn in later series and wild card element but ensuring that enchantments were hard to obtain and

Gear was almost always pretty bad that puts golden apples being banned meant that even though some traps weren’t completely lethal or 100 foolproof they could still have a meaningful outcome and have the smart and the Trapper be paid off in a satisfying way it meant that every single moment mattered every

Episode every story beat every character Arc it also real it all felt genuine and it all felt necessary there was no padding for longer videos everything was there for a reason and served its purpose beautifully all these elements of a well thought out SMP and a tight-knit group of beloved creators

Coming together to create what is in my opinion one of the best Minecraft smps of all time and to win them you’d have to be one of the very best on the planet that was completely Uber a plan that you can watch in its entirety over here subscribe