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Autcraft

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9players

Player History

24 Hours · Hourly

Now9
Average16
Daily Peak20
All Time Peak60
Uptime100.00%
40302010018:00Sep 806:00
LanguageEnglish
EditionJava
Minecraft VersionBungeeCord 1.8.x-26.x
LocationVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
NetworkEZProvider Networks, Inc.
FoundedJune 23, 2013

About Autcraft

Autcraft is a whitelisted Java survival server made for autistic players, their families, and other players who want a calmer multiplayer space. Building is spread across protected worlds, with resource areas, creative plots, roleplay locations, shops, quests, and minigames alongside ordinary survival play.

The server puts safety into the game itself. Chat stays family-friendly, griefing and intentional player traps are forbidden, and staff handle problems through in-game reports. It still has plenty to do beyond building, including custom items, boss encounters, player-run shops, treasure hunts, and large community projects.

What Makes It Different

Autcraft treats accessibility and safety as part of the Minecraft design. Players can highlight their names in chat, use sound alerts, build inside protected regions, and rely on a staff culture built around patience rather than punishment alone.

It also feels more like a small Minecraft community than a single game mode. A normal survival base can connect to shops, roleplay areas, creative plots, minigames, treasure hunts, and unusual custom encounters such as The Darkness.

Autcraft Gameplay

The main activity is survival building across several protected build worlds. Separate resource worlds provide places to gather materials without putting established community builds at risk.

Players can create homes, public builds, shops, farms, towns, and themed projects. Creative plots, roleplay areas, minigames, and special event locations give players ways to play when they are finished with ordinary survival work.

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History of Autcraft

Autcraft began with Stuart Duncan, who wanted to give autistic children and their families a place to play Minecraft without the bullying common on public servers. The first technical work started on June 9, 2013, when Duncan purchased the domain, arranged hosting, and began building the first server world.

The doors officially opened on June 23, 2013. A Facebook post spread rapidly through the autism community, producing more than 750 emails within the first 36 hours. What started as a small project quickly became a long-running multiplayer community with a formal whitelist and a strong emphasis on kindness, patience, and protection from harassment.

Autcraft received its first major news attention in 2014. Its approach also became a subject of academic research, as researchers examined how players and families created a safer shared space inside Minecraft.

By 2017, Autcraft had become well known outside the Minecraft community. Stuart Duncan gave a TEDx talk about the server, and a major wave of coverage brought so many whitelist applications that the team was still processing them months later.

In 2018, Mojang visited Duncan and his family in Timmins to feature Autcraft in its Meet a Minecrafter series. The server continued to develop as a multiworld community rather than a simple single-survival map, adding creative building, roleplay areas, minigames, custom events, shops, and accessibility-focused commands.

Autcraft was presented at Games 4 Change in 2019, adding another milestone to its public history. Over time, its gameplay expanded with systems such as custom recipes, special heads, player particles, jobs, quests, protected regions, and structured community events.

The server marked its tenth anniversary in 2023 and continued through its thirteenth year with more than 20,500 players added to the whitelist. Today it remains a Java-only, approval-based Minecraft community built around protected survival, careful moderation, creative projects, and family-friendly multiplayer.

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Autcraft is a whitelisted Java survival server made for autistic players, their families, and other players who want a calmer multiplayer space.

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