Airidale Prison
Player History
7 Days · Hourly
Daily History
| Day | Average ? | Change ? | % Change ? | Daily Peak ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8 TuesdayToday · In progress | 8.0 | -2.8 | -25.87% | 15 |
| Sep 7 Monday | 10.8 | +0.4 | +4.02% | 16 |
| Sep 6 Sunday | 10.4 | +1.4 | +15.81% | 17 |
| Sep 5 Saturday | 9.0 | +2.5 | +39.61% | 20 |
| Sep 4 Friday | 6.4 | -2.7 | -29.68% | 14 |
| Sep 3 Thursday | 9.1 | -1.2 | -11.69% | 14 |
| Sep 2 Wednesday | 10.3 | -1.8 | -15.07% | 17 |
| Sep 1 Tuesday | 12.2 | +2.0 | +19.67% | 21 |
| Aug 31 Monday | 10.2 | -3.5 | -25.84% | 15 |
| Aug 30 Sunday | 13.7 | +2.6 | +23.22% | 21 |
About Airidale Prison
Airidale Prison is a classic non-OP prison server built around earned progression. You begin at E4, work through five wards, and climb to A1 across 20 regular ranks. Each ward adds a new mine, wood area, quests, cells, and places to fight or gather resources.
Mining drives the economy, but it is not the whole game. Players also manage shops, gangs, mcMMO skills, custom tools, Souls-based enchanting, bosses, mob arenas, fishing, contests, crates, and airdrops. Reaching A1 opens a ten-level prestige journey that sends you back to E4 with permanent milestone rewards.
What Makes It Different
Airidale keeps the old-school prison grind intact instead of turning progression into an instant gear rush. The unusual part is how many side systems feed back into that grind: Souls, Scrap, custom tools, ward quests, gangs, bosses, cells, and prestige rewards all matter to the climb.
Prison servers turn mining into a gated progression ladder: players break blocks in designated mines, sell the resources, and spend their earnings on ranks that unlock more valuable areas.
The server is fundamentally a classic prison progression server.
Quests are tracked Minecraft objectives that direct players to complete specific tasks or a connected sequence of tasks.
Every ward includes daily and weekly quest systems.
Minecraft economy gameplay makes in-game money a central way to obtain resources, upgrades, or access.
Money, Scrap, Souls, shops, smugglers, and rankup costs shape progression.
Start in E Ward and work through regular mines, wood areas, mob farms, quests, shops, and rentable cells. Mining and woodcutting earn money, while mobs, fishing, quests, crates, and events provide other rewards. Players can also join gangs, improve mcMMO skills, fight bosses, enter mob arenas, and compete in contests or airdrops.
The regular path has 20 ranks: E4 through E1, D4 through D1, C4 through C1, B4 through B1, and A4 through A1. Rank prices rise sharply, with A1 costing $5,000,000 at the base progression level. Entering a new ward releases the previous ward's cell and resets that ward's weekly quest progress. Reaching A1 unlocks prestige, which returns you to E4 while granting permanent milestone rewards. There are ten prestige levels.
Airidale uses custom tools with clear practical effects. Explosive Pickaxes break a 3 × 3 × 1 area, Inventory Pickaxes send mined blocks directly to your inventory, Smelter's Pickaxes process compatible ores while mining, and Lumber Axes break up to a 3 × 3 × 3 area of wood. Souls power equipment enchanting, and risky disenchanting can destroy an item while sometimes returning Soulbound Books.
The prison is divided into five hand-built wards: E, D, C, B, and A. Each ward has its own mine, wood mine, passive and hostile mob farms, daily and weekly quests, and rentable cells. Prestige adds a separate area with its own mine, wood mine, and rentable cafeteria cells.
PvP is part of the server's competitive gameplay alongside gangs, bosses, airdrops, and contests. The main progression remains prison-focused, so fights sit around the economy and ward systems rather than replacing them.
Money is the main rankup currency, while Scrap and Souls support the deeper systems. Scrap can be used at the Lunch Lady for Souls, quest-reset vouchers, smithing templates, totems, crate keys, and gang boss keys. Souls are physical enchanting currency. Smugglers pay twice the normal server-shop price for accepted items, creating another way to improve mining profits. Player shops and server shops support trading between players and the server economy.
Daily and weekly ward quests provide recurring goals. Other activities include ward bosses, gang bosses, fishing treasures, mob arenas, contests, airdrops, crates, voting rewards, and weekly gang competitions. Kino and Yard are wave-based mob arenas that run through 100 waves and reward Scrap and crate keys.
Players can form gangs, rent cells, run player shops, share items through interactive chat, compete for gang rewards, and invite new players through the referral program. Discord is the main place for support tickets and staff contact.
Hacked or unfair modded clients, exploits, advertising, alt accounts, inappropriate language, and real-money trades for in-game items are prohibited. Public chat is English-only. AFK play is at the player's own risk, and staff decisions are final.
The official store offers donor ranks, rank upgrades, prison tools, and other extras. Donor kits have a seven-day claim cooldown. Voting provides crate keys that can be claimed in-game, including rewards from five daily vote sites.
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History of Airidale Prison
Airidale was founded in 2017 by Kobe, also known as InvalidZ. Its original idea was a classic prison server where players earned their way upward instead of receiving instant endgame gear.
JohnnyGooodTime joined as co-owner in May 2018. During the early years, Airidale developed the familiar prison foundations that still shape the server: ranked wards, cells, player shops, mcMMO, quests, prestige, server shops, and a resource-based economy.
By 2020, Airidale was being presented as a classic non-OP prison network centered on the E-to-A grind. The prison experience included custom plugins, player-run shops, auction trading, mob grinders, a commissary, cells, and a prestige reset that sent players back to the beginning.
The server continued through later development under its established ownership team. JohnnyGooodTime became the sole owner in October 2022, following several years as co-owner.
Airidale was rebuilt for a new era in 2026. The relaunch kept the original prison structure while adding deeper progression, custom tools, Souls enchanting, Scrap, gang bosses, mob arenas, airdrops, and a more complete set of player guides.
The current Season VII release runs on modern Java versions and preserves the long-form prison loop: mine, quest, trade, rank up, reach A1, and prestige. Five hand-built wards and ten prestige levels give the server a much longer runway than a short rankup-only prison mode.
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