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Airidale Prison

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Player History

24 Hours · Hourly

Now3
Average9
Daily Peak15
All Time Peak23
Uptime100.00%
2015105018:00Sep 806:00
LanguageEnglish
EditionJava
Minecraft VersionPaper 1.21.11
LocationReston, Virginia, United States
NetworkOVH US LLC
Founded2017

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.

Airidale Prison Gameplay

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.

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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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Airidale Prison is a classic non-OP prison server built around earned progression.

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