It's pretty depressing knowing that these server are still up but rarely anyone plays on them. Somehow I think it just signals the end of an era to extent.
It's not that deep. There's thousands of new servers that many people still play on today. As people get older and Minecraft continues to get updated, the game outpaces the speed at which people can keep up. The same thing will happen to many of the popular servers that are here today. The circle of life.
that weird feeling when you join one of these servers is probably the fear of liminal spaces - when we see a place where we expect a lot of people to be in, but there are none.
i dont think thats what a liminal space is but ur kinda close. liminal spaces alone are just places of passing that you need to go through to get to ur destination, like stairs or an elevator. what makes them unsettling though is when the people are removed and it's just the space itself. mc servers aren't a liminal space but it is weird seeing them empty
i remember this kingdom server back in 2011, my first ever server. it was such a cozy community, you lived in a kingdom and could build your own house and ask the "queen" or "king" to protect your little plot so no one could grief it and they'd tp to you to do it personally. both my cousins were banned from it and whoever gets banned would get a gravestone in the graveyard lmao
the reason the servers are still up are either 1. server owner forgot their paying for it and still use the payment method 2. they bought the domain and server hosting/vps for x amount of years and the plan is still up (most likely imo) 3. server is now used for memories/friends thats what I assume atleast
@@tutacat Almost certainly. There's no way someone making money is gonna forget about paying for a server they aren't using lol. They'll remember once they see the charge to the credit card.
Man, Dancraft was the server I played from 2013 onwards, I remember it’s decline and everything. Quite emotional to see on your video… crazy how times change
it was cool to see that you played ecocitycraft! I joined the same way you found it: searching for old servers. I don't play anymore but I made some good friends there who are quite sweet, the owner claire is always on and happy to chat with the community too. I actually asked her once in a vc about the pay to win aspects of the server and she explained that it is mostly cosmetic. If you ask anyone within the community they'll say it's not really pay to win aswell. The server kits are expensive as hell so if anyone does get one they had to shell out a huge donation, which honestly makes sense because to keep that server up they need it. It's a huge server data-wise. If you ever hop back on go visit my dead town of Zealandia.
The 1.19 thing could be explained by the possibility that the activity on the server died down, the update was announced, players on the discord were hyped and asked to update to that version, but in a new world. The owner did, and only a few people played. That is essentially what happened on my server. On my server, it was a combination of players realizing they miss the old world, plugins taking a long while to update (some of them long since being abandoned), and some players essentially speedrunning through the world, then griefing everyone else
Wow... The fact that EMC ended up on there is surprising. I remember playing back when it was really popular and then there was a lot of controversy with staff and many players left for new servers or just stopped playing. Back when Mixer was a thing, stream base was amazing! There was a partnered streamer who exclusively played there with their followers.
"OMG DEAD SERVERRRSSS" *literally 20 people online* "This server sucks because I can't kill someone else's horse on their own land" EMC isn't dead and this is bs lol Next bro's gonna join the ancient server of hypixel and claim it's dead. Man this server sucks the hub is too crowded.
@@ZachCogswell Well to be fair, that's a small active core left behind after a much, much more active past. There's a reason why there are 10 servers. It's because they used to actually see a lot of use. Now it's 2-5 people on each server.
@@Zandercraft That just describes Minecraft as a whole. EMC is more active now than the vast majority of servers were at the peak, with hundreds of active players. As far as servers from the old days EMC is one of the ones that have fared the best. I just think that the whole clickbaity, sensational THESE SERVERS ARE **DEAD** of this video is a sham.
It’s so weird seeing these servers frozen in time. Reminds me of a tekkit server I used to play on WAY after most people moved on. It got to the point where only me and a couple of players played at once. Eventually I was all alone many times… that’s probably when I moved on too… sad to think it’s probably dead now
When the game was dominantly based on building, there was a clear division between regular players and griefers. To get past this before all the pay to win garbage (servers did have donation ranks but they really cared about you voting for them), servers either had whitelists or permissions based "initiations" where you would have to answer a quiz after reading the rules or even make multiple forum posts before getting whitelists/perms. This only increased with admission to a township.
9:36 I bet the reason that the server is still up is that it runs on a provider that auto-charges your bank account, and the server owner either forgot about the server or still keeps it running, because it does not cost that much.
This is exactly why it was still up at that time. The owner butterontoast7 had been working on it sense 2016, with it never really gaining traction for various reasons. As of about a year ago it was sold to an ex staff members named Zombiekill29820 and Cannicide. Source:Worked on the server from 2017-2020ish if I remember right, left the team due to disagreements with Butterontoast7 among other drama I don't wish to get into. I'm again active with the project now that he is gone though.
I used to play on a few of these (Craftgasm, OriginPVP, Dancraft, and Cowcraft), and I recall meeting quite a few people on them. I had a little base on Dancraft below ground, and was just absolutely devoted to the underground lifestyle. That was years ago, man. I wonder if that base is still out there, somewhere, with all of that stuff and our pets.. Man, now I'm sad.
In case you're wondering ecosity craft is actually a economy based server and gear does not do a whole lot for this server and is not pay to win whatsoever so this server is actually pretty fun if you want an economy based server
ZombieHorde used to be a pretty big server back in the early days, they shut down but their code was bought out and it's rehosted by someone else. It's dead but still playable and I think the owner still works on it.
7:00, it could happen that the server owner bought a lifetime domain or at a long time, the ip ( so the server aswell ) was deleted and so other server and users can get use of it. Propably the domain pointed to some random guys server
Awesome video, I liked the video on one hand and felt bad for the servers on the other hand I wonder why the owners of them aren't closing them now it literally costs money to keep the servers onnline
iKonia Network is also dead, it's a turkish server since 2010 and it does nothing more than lagging though the developers still update the server every season and stuff but there's only 3 people or 0 based on turkey timezone
This is forgery, your Beast Empire is rising conversely. Yooo, but the Feastables are fire bro!!! Those aperients are the sauce! I've been consuming them for so long and I just can't stop consuming them, and I especially love munching down all the Feastables right when I got home. I swear this is better than MiraLax. Like why would anyone buy MiraLax when you can just buy Feastables, which is superior. My homies tried your Feastables, and they are so good that they fainted. And they kept shouting "MrBeast!" full of passion crying tears of joy. The children all around the world are crying tears of joy, because you taught them what it means to be an Alpha male. It was you, all along it was you. Ecosia planted millions of trees, you picked up your own garbage like a boss, the Minecraft server invitation I received, that wasn't my friend. You were on my friends list. You built 100 houses in Africa to save your sorry Beast Empire. You cured blindness in a nursing home. MrBeast! MrBeast! You are hope to humanity. Love from France 🇫🇷, love from Romania 🇷🇴, love from Albania🇦🇱, love from Uganda 🇺🇬 , love from Denmark 🇩🇰. If it weren't for 404, I wouldn't have known how much of a crazy man you are. Once again, MRBEAST!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I used to play on this minecraft server maybe like 8-9 years ago. All I remember the name being **lihp** (It was a partially dead server back then). The only minigame i used to play was Dwarves vs Zombies which I really miss right now
Yo! I used to love Zombie horde back in the day. I believe the one you were playing is actually a revival of the server after it went down previously. The original server had a much larger playerbase, so I believe the game balance may rely on more players being present.
HOLY SDHIT i played on cowcraft during my childhood! it used to be decently popular. i played on both the survival and creative worlds. good memories :')
I’m quite surprised PartyZone isn’t on here! I haven’t seen anyone on in that server for quite some time and it used to be pretty popular for its murder mystery before hypixel came out with it!
(Sorry for bad English) I remember randomly finding a server with 0 people in it I then joined it to check it out little did I know it was a server from idk 2010,2011,2012,2013 one of those and what I realized was that they had signs explaining what happened since it looked like there was a big war there were huge buildings and stuff that looked amazing but there were some untouched areas with some names .
shout out to keinett server where even cracked player can play with thousand of people , godly paintball mode and fun creative plot world . now ... its all gone
YO Zombiehorde! That was very popular years ago, nothing has changed on it since really other than its like dead. Its very unique. All there is is a few maps that are new but that is IT. They still do update version compatibility usually.
oof this just reminded me that my oracle minecraft servers are still running... made them to play modded minecraft with friends and just forgot about them and they are still running lol. theyve been up for years and since its all free its just been there waiting
Wurst hacked client has a tool that finds server IPs similar to one you provide and adds them to the server lift. Found many abandoned servers this way, lot of cool stories. One time I found a project a dude was working on that he hadn't released to the public yet, he saw me join in the log and joined himself to ask me how tf I found the server lol
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It's pretty depressing knowing that these server are still up but rarely anyone plays on them. Somehow I think it just signals the end of an era to extent.
don't worry I'm sure some of them will have a lot of new "friendly" players :)
@@jgtb0pl WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN HMM??
It's not that deep. There's thousands of new servers that many people still play on today. As people get older and Minecraft continues to get updated, the game outpaces the speed at which people can keep up. The same thing will happen to many of the popular servers that are here today. The circle of life.
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that weird feeling when you join one of these servers is probably the fear of liminal spaces - when we see a place where we expect a lot of people to be in, but there are none.
i dont think thats what a liminal space is but ur kinda close. liminal spaces alone are just places of passing that you need to go through to get to ur destination, like stairs or an elevator. what makes them unsettling though is when the people are removed and it's just the space itself. mc servers aren't a liminal space but it is weird seeing them empty
@@diorsse backrooms are basically a HUGE example of liminal spaces, as there are infinite levels.
i remember this kingdom server back in 2011, my first ever server. it was such a cozy community, you lived in a kingdom and could build your own house and ask the "queen" or "king" to protect your little plot so no one could grief it and they'd tp to you to do it personally. both my cousins were banned from it and whoever gets banned would get a gravestone in the graveyard lmao
That's what I'm looking for these days
the reason the servers are still up are either
1. server owner forgot their paying for it and still use the payment method
2. they bought the domain and server hosting/vps for x amount of years and the plan is still up (most likely imo)
3. server is now used for memories/friends
thats what I assume atleast
Andd they do not want to be law suited
server owner's parent's credit card
@@tutacat Almost certainly. There's no way someone making money is gonna forget about paying for a server they aren't using lol. They'll remember once they see the charge to the credit card.
1 is the most correct
I doubt they are using the same payment method. Debit cards expire.
Man, Dancraft was the server I played from 2013 onwards, I remember it’s decline and everything. Quite emotional to see on your video… crazy how times change
atleast the experience was immortalised
I used to play dancraft a lot from 2013 through to about 2016/2017 its actually crazy to see it empty. Emotional damage fr
dont they cost money to keep up? why arent the owners closing them
can u explain what exactly happened to it and if u are in contact with its players
And don't forget about Olimpocraft
it was cool to see that you played ecocitycraft! I joined the same way you found it: searching for old servers. I don't play anymore but I made some good friends there who are quite sweet, the owner claire is always on and happy to chat with the community too. I actually asked her once in a vc about the pay to win aspects of the server and she explained that it is mostly cosmetic. If you ask anyone within the community they'll say it's not really pay to win aswell. The server kits are expensive as hell so if anyone does get one they had to shell out a huge donation, which honestly makes sense because to keep that server up they need it. It's a huge server data-wise. If you ever hop back on go visit my dead town of Zealandia.
The 1.19 thing could be explained by the possibility that the activity on the server died down, the update was announced, players on the discord were hyped and asked to update to that version, but in a new world. The owner did, and only a few people played.
That is essentially what happened on my server. On my server, it was a combination of players realizing they miss the old world, plugins taking a long while to update (some of them long since being abandoned), and some players essentially speedrunning through the world, then griefing everyone else
Wow... The fact that EMC ended up on there is surprising. I remember playing back when it was really popular and then there was a lot of controversy with staff and many players left for new servers or just stopped playing. Back when Mixer was a thing, stream base was amazing! There was a partnered streamer who exclusively played there with their followers.
I used to love EMC, many fond memories on that server. -pat2011
I had the same reaction! I still play on emc and its still pretty active.
"OMG DEAD SERVERRRSSS"
*literally 20 people online*
"This server sucks because I can't kill someone else's horse on their own land"
EMC isn't dead and this is bs lol
Next bro's gonna join the ancient server of hypixel and claim it's dead. Man this server sucks the hub is too crowded.
@@ZachCogswell Well to be fair, that's a small active core left behind after a much, much more active past. There's a reason why there are 10 servers. It's because they used to actually see a lot of use. Now it's 2-5 people on each server.
@@Zandercraft That just describes Minecraft as a whole. EMC is more active now than the vast majority of servers were at the peak, with hundreds of active players. As far as servers from the old days EMC is one of the ones that have fared the best.
I just think that the whole clickbaity, sensational THESE SERVERS ARE **DEAD** of this video is a sham.
It’s so weird seeing these servers frozen in time. Reminds me of a tekkit server I used to play on WAY after most people moved on. It got to the point where only me and a couple of players played at once. Eventually I was all alone many times… that’s probably when I moved on too… sad to think it’s probably dead now
When the game was dominantly based on building, there was a clear division between regular players and griefers. To get past this before all the pay to win garbage (servers did have donation ranks but they really cared about you voting for them), servers either had whitelists or permissions based "initiations" where you would have to answer a quiz after reading the rules or even make multiple forum posts before getting whitelists/perms. This only increased with admission to a township.
I remember TeamExtreme trivia lol. I was looking for answers everywhere only to look what it looks like
I remember the claim plugin, where you would be able to claim land using a golden shovel.
it's crazy how "smp" changed meanings throughout the years
survival multiplayer
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This video was genuinely really good! Keep up the good work and you'll grow in no time!
thank you!
I LOVE u
i was ab to say the same thing :P
@@DxzysREALis this true
People with no standards be like:
9:36 I bet the reason that the server is still up is that it runs on a provider that auto-charges your bank account, and the server owner either forgot about the server or still keeps it running, because it does not cost that much.
mhm
Or even dead
This is exactly why it was still up at that time. The owner butterontoast7 had been working on it sense 2016, with it never really gaining traction for various reasons. As of about a year ago it was sold to an ex staff members named Zombiekill29820 and Cannicide. Source:Worked on the server from 2017-2020ish if I remember right, left the team due to disagreements with Butterontoast7 among other drama I don't wish to get into. I'm again active with the project now that he is gone though.
I used to play on a few of these (Craftgasm, OriginPVP, Dancraft, and Cowcraft), and I recall meeting quite a few people on them. I had a little base on Dancraft below ground, and was just absolutely devoted to the underground lifestyle. That was years ago, man. I wonder if that base is still out there, somewhere, with all of that stuff and our pets..
Man, now I'm sad.
I used to play on cowcraft in like 2014, it was a fun server, mostly creative and hunger games, though there was a survival world on there as well
i did too!! i wonder if we ever played together. :))
cowcraft was the shit back then. good times
Damn, didn’t expect to come across a small channel, visiting old mc servers is actually a fucking interesting idea.
In case you're wondering ecosity craft is actually a economy based server and gear does not do a whole lot for this server and is not pay to win whatsoever so this server is actually pretty fun if you want an economy based server
I used to play this, you have to pay money to place water in the sever it’s def a scam. I stopped playing in 2020.
Your videos are so fun to watch man you’ll definitely become much more popular really quickly
true
glad this video got recommended by RUclips because this is a hidden gem
2:30 classic dxzys, starting up conflicts
Really enjoyed the video, the idea is very original love it!
i appreciate it! :)
This is definitly a good start for a rising youtuber.
The real question is why this server continue be payed for staying online?
ZombieHorde used to be a pretty big server back in the early days, they shut down but their code was bought out and it's rehosted by someone else. It's dead but still playable and I think the owner still works on it.
Never have I been smacked this hard with the difference of an og minecraft player and the newer generation of minecrafters.
altho ur a small creator i was very suprised how good content this is. Keep it up!
5:09
Private protection plugin.
Basically command /region claim
That's from LWC plugin which lets you lock signs, doors, chests etc with that "magical spell"
7:00, it could happen that the server owner bought a lifetime domain or at a long time, the ip ( so the server aswell ) was deleted and so other server and users can get use of it. Propably the domain pointed to some random guys server
Awesome video, I liked the video on one hand and felt bad for the servers on the other hand
I wonder why the owners of them aren't closing them now it literally costs money to keep the servers onnline
Great production quality, keep it up!
MAN THE NOSTALGIA
iKonia Network is also dead, it's a turkish server since 2010 and it does nothing more than lagging though the developers still update the server every season and stuff but there's only 3 people or 0 based on turkey timezone
3:56 its really what i say every time i remember my old smps or when i join a random server it feels like you are exploring an ancient civilisation
The parkour explosions had me dying
I think the last one actually had somepotential if it was active, it certainly seemed interesting
This is forgery, your Beast Empire is rising conversely. Yooo, but the Feastables are fire bro!!! Those aperients are the sauce! I've been consuming them for so long and I just can't stop consuming them, and I especially love munching down all the Feastables right when I got home. I swear this is better than MiraLax. Like why would anyone buy MiraLax when you can just buy Feastables, which is superior. My homies tried your Feastables, and they are so good that they fainted. And they kept shouting "MrBeast!" full of passion crying tears of joy. The children all around the world are crying tears of joy, because you taught them what it means to be an Alpha male. It was you, all along it was you. Ecosia planted millions of trees, you picked up your own garbage like a boss, the Minecraft server invitation I received, that wasn't my friend. You were on my friends list. You built 100 houses in Africa to save your sorry Beast Empire. You cured blindness in a nursing home. MrBeast! MrBeast! You are hope to humanity. Love from France 🇫🇷, love from Romania 🇷🇴, love from Albania🇦🇱, love from Uganda 🇺🇬 , love from Denmark 🇩🇰. If it weren't for 404, I wouldn't have known how much of a crazy man you are.
Once again, MRBEAST!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I used to play on this minecraft server maybe like 8-9 years ago. All I remember the name being **lihp** (It was a partially dead server back then). The only minigame i used to play was Dwarves vs Zombies which I really miss right now
Dxzys:IM the best parkour person evbo: you sure...
Massivecraft was HUGE, I used to play on that server for a long time. Full on RP experience, wars, clans etc. Was great
Or You Could Say It Was "MASSIVE"
Yo! I used to love Zombie horde back in the day. I believe the one you were playing is actually a revival of the server after it went down previously. The original server had a much larger playerbase, so I believe the game balance may rely on more players being present.
NO WAY I PLAY ON EMPIRE MINECRAFT LIKE EVERYDAY!!!
HOLY SDHIT i played on cowcraft during my childhood! it used to be decently popular. i played on both the survival and creative worlds. good memories :')
i wonder if we ever played together!! i used to be on there all of the time!
dxzys this is awesome
cong gin eee!!!!!1!!
:)
Id like to point out most of these servers that where active once a pon a time died out due to owners not actively trying to update
Good video! I like your pfp :)
Bro is the most entertaining new Minecraft RUclipsrs
5:10 Have you never played a multiplayer server? That's been the default message in LWC (chest/door protection plugin) for at least 12 years.
I’m quite surprised PartyZone isn’t on here! I haven’t seen anyone on in that server for quite some time and it used to be pretty popular for its murder mystery before hypixel came out with it!
Yoo i remember that server! Murder mystery was fun asf, miss those days icl
1:10 its a BungeeCord server, The Proxy is on but the Game server are offline
7:09 bro got excited
Pro tip: use tab to see who’s online
I used to love playing SpartanMC, i'm so sad to see it again on this video and seeing it's gone forever 😔
8:13 Ah yes. Liminal spaces.
crazy to think that some people that ran minecraft servers are now dads
I got this on my recommended and i thought someone with a ton of subs then i saw you were at 926 subs.
The way he was tryna do crits in that zombie game
9:31 you reminded me of that saying in call of duty 4 mw : fifty thousand pepole used to live here now its a ghost town
banger video 10/10 would watch again (would also watch anything you upload in the future (keep up the good work!!))
Yo this video was really good, keep it up man!
Crazy how some still have people actively playing
(Sorry for bad English) I remember randomly finding a server with 0 people in it I then joined it to check it out little did I know it was a server from idk 2010,2011,2012,2013 one of those and what I realized was that they had signs explaining what happened since it looked like there was a big war there were huge buildings and stuff that looked amazing but there were some untouched areas with some names .
shout out to keinett server where even cracked player can play with thousand of people , godly paintball mode and fun creative plot world . now ... its all gone
Bro your speedrunning RUclips, I subbed.
5:40 best server ever
so true !!
A bit late…
Crazy seeing cowcraft on there. Used to love playing on there.
me too! it’s nice seeing people who i may have played with here. :)
I can't say this servers are abandoned
but And SMP that 10 years old with 0 player right now is really creepy
i expected more subs with that high quality editing. Good job!
YO Zombiehorde! That was very popular years ago, nothing has changed on it since really other than its like dead. Its very unique. All there is is a few maps that are new but that is IT. They still do update version compatibility usually.
cool video of yours im starting a new SMP
This made me sad, Ihave played some of the servers or watched youtubers playing on them. It bring me back in time.
EcoCityCraft was great back in the day. I played for years
@axiz4684 I seen andrewkm finally sold it. I hope it makes it for many more years
Did you know, you can actually have a separate program report the motd, then only spin up an actual server when someone joins.
Would be cool if people suddenly decided to hype up Dancraft like it's the next Hypixel
Teacher: What happened in 2010?
That one minecraft kid: THE OLDEST MINECRAFT ANARCHY SERVER AKA 2B2T RELEASED,
Why are these server’s still even online???
dude ur amazin hope u get to 10k soon!
So good content that I had to subscribe it, looking forward for more of these cheers dude 👍🏻
I use to play MassiveCraft, it was a fun server to build empires.
Nice Video bro. hmmmmmm youtube recomaned me your video
In every abondant servers has had or have a entity that shows the server is running or gave you an exception error if you join
oof this just reminded me that my oracle minecraft servers are still running... made them to play modded minecraft with friends and just forgot about them and they are still running lol. theyve been up for years and since its all free its just been there waiting
I have old screenshots on dancraft from back in 2014, good times
Lucky, wish I could find my old servers….
Upload them bro even glimpses of the old maps around then would be great to see for nostalgia
Wurst hacked client has a tool that finds server IPs similar to one you provide and adds them to the server lift. Found many abandoned servers this way, lot of cool stories. One time I found a project a dude was working on that he hadn't released to the public yet, he saw me join in the log and joined himself to ask me how tf I found the server lol
Come on dxzys , we need those videos 🫶🏻🥲
Hi I love your hardcore streams
love your content I need to learn to make content like this
where do you find all these servers
1:58 that error means the game can't authenticate you with mojang, as if you tried to play it for free
bruh im here for the memes
Yup it's creepy to play alone in servers
those servers are abandoned just like this yt channel 😢
AHAHAHHAA THE END OF THE VIDEO 😂 😂 😂
Cool vid ✨
waitttttt i watched a bit of the video and i decided to like , and i see that u only have 1k subs HOW
Former server owner. Those "magical spells" are part of a plugin called Lockette using its default config
treestompz?
8:10 you give them head for items no wayyy
8:04 LOL
You got a new sub bro this was great 👍
Just subscribed keep up the good work