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sVanilla Survival

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16players

Player History

24 Hours · Hourly

Now16
Average14
Daily Peak16
All Time Peak25
Uptime100.00%
3023158018:00Sep 806:00
LanguageEnglish
Minecraft VersionVelocity 1.7.2-26.2
LocationWarrenton, Virginia, United States
NetworkOVH US LLC
FoundedAugust 16, 2019

About sVanilla Survival

sVanilla Survival is a long-term survival SMP built around freedom rather than protection systems. There are no land claims, so bases can be hidden, raided, griefed, defended, or abandoned. Helpful commands such as /home, /sethome, /spawn, /tpa, and /ignore keep the server practical without turning it into a heavily customized mode.

The combat rules push fights toward swords, axes, bows, and ordinary survival gear. Crystal PvP is disabled, and the world does not reset. Players can settle far from spawn, trade directly with one another, build technical projects, or form groups for raids and rivalries. Java and Bedrock players share the same server through crossplay.

What Makes It Different

The server removes the two systems that make many modern survival servers feel safer or more scripted: land claims and crystal PvP. Your base must be protected through distance, secrecy, allies, or clever building, while most fights return to swords, axes, bows, and movement.

sVanilla Survival Gameplay

Players share one persistent survival world with no protected claims. You can build anywhere inside the world, hide valuables, cooperate with others, raid bases, or create your own settlement. Teleport commands make long-distance survival easier without removing the risk of open-world play.

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History of sVanilla Survival

sVanilla Survival was founded on August 16, 2019 as a fast, free, simple semi-vanilla survival server. Its starting idea was to keep the game close to ordinary Minecraft while leaving players room to build, fight, trade, and make their own rules within a fair-play framework.

The current map began on May 6, 2023. Instead of following a short seasonal cycle, the server kept the map permanent, allowing bases, roads, farms, ruins, and large technical builds to remain part of the same world over time.

As the server developed, it added convenience commands without shifting toward a large plugin-heavy network. Homes, teleport requests, spawn access, and player ignoring reduce travel and chat friction while the core survival loop stays recognizable.

Its combat direction became one of the server's clearest defining choices. Crystal PvP is disabled, while melee weapons and bows remain central. Combat restrictions such as no elytra during fights, combat tagging, and an eight-second totem cooldown keep encounters focused on direct fighting rather than explosive crystal tactics.

The present server combines that old-school survival approach with Java-Bedrock access, a large permanent world, direct player trading, TNT duplication for technical builds, and cosmetic-only store ranks. The result is an open survival world where player decisions shape most of the danger and development.

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sVanilla Survival is a long-term survival SMP built around freedom rather than protection systems.

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