HearthCraft
Player History
7 Days · Hourly
Daily History
| Day | Average ? | Change ? | % Change ? | Daily Peak ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4 SundayToday · In progress | 31.0 | +3.4 | +12.32% | 32 |
| Oct 3 Saturday | 27.6 | +3.5 | +14.40% | 33 |
| Oct 2 Friday | 24.1 | -2.5 | -9.53% | 30 |
| Oct 1 Thursday | 26.7 | — | — | 28 |
About HearthCraft
HearthCraft was a no-griefing economy SMP that kept ordinary survival at the center while adding land claims, mcMMO, pets, a leveling system, player shops, auctions, and resource worlds. Its main world continued without a reset from July 2019 until the server closed on April 18, 2025, making long-term building and community continuity more important than seasonal wipes.
What Makes It Different
HearthCraft's clearest difference was continuity. Its main world was not reset after July 2019, while separate resource worlds handled renewable mining and exploration. Combined with no-griefing rules and a non-pay-to-win store, that made the server feel more like a long-term building community than a wipe-driven survival network.
mcMMO is a Minecraft server skill system that grants experience for activities such as mining, chopping trees, fishing, and fighting.
mcMMO skills provided an established progression path alongside ordinary survival gear and construction.
A persistent world is a Minecraft server world that keeps its player-made changes and ongoing progress across repeated visits.
The main world remained available without a reset from July 2019 until the server closed, preserving long-term player projects.
Semi-Vanilla servers keep Minecraft’s ordinary survival progression while adding a limited set of server-specific changes around it.
HearthCraft preserved ordinary Minecraft survival while adding a limited collection of server-side progression and quality-of-life systems.
An SMP is a multiplayer Minecraft survival world where players gather resources, build, and progress alongside one another.
HearthCraft was explicitly a multiplayer survival world centered on shared long-term building, exploration, and player progression.
Survival servers let players gather resources, craft gear, build shelter, and develop a base while staying alive in a dangerous world.
Gathering resources, crafting gear, building bases, exploring, and surviving hostile environments formed the core gameplay loop.
Minecraft economy gameplay makes in-game money a central way to obtain resources, upgrades, or access.
Currency progression, player shops, auctions, trading, and economy-based leveling were substantial parts of the server experience.
Land claims are protected areas that let a player or group control who can build, break, and interact with blocks inside a marked part of the world.
Protected land claims were central to the server's no-griefing approach and safeguarded player bases, farms, and builds.
Players gathered resources, built bases and community spaces, explored the main and resource worlds, and protected their land with claims. The server kept the ordinary Minecraft survival loop recognizable while adding conveniences such as random teleportation, pets, leaderboards, death recovery through /back, and server-side quality-of-life systems.
Progression came from normal survival gear, mcMMO skills, playtime and economy-based leveling, custom achievements, and player-built wealth. BlazeandCave's achievement system added hundreds of extra goals, giving long-term players more objectives beyond equipment upgrades and construction.
HearthCraft stayed close to vanilla Minecraft rather than becoming an RPG or heavily custom-world server. Its additions came mainly through server-side systems including mcMMO, pets, marriage, custom achievements, leveling, land claims, leaderboards, player warps, and economy tools.
The main survival world was intended to remain permanently available and dated from July 2019. Separate resource worlds were refreshed independently, with the resource Overworld commonly resetting monthly. The server used large survival areas and kept the long-term building world separate from regularly renewed gathering spaces.
PvP was secondary rather than the main focus. Player commentary described HearthCraft as a builder-oriented server where combat could be enabled between willing players instead of driving the entire server's progression.
The economy supported player shops, player warps, auctions, trading, and regular currency progression. The store was presented as non-pay-to-win, with paid perks intended not to provide direct gameplay advantages. The former webstore is now unavailable.
Weekly events and build-focused activities formed part of the server's recurring community calendar. Events supplemented the persistent survival world instead of replacing it with a rotation of short seasonal modes.
Community was a major part of HearthCraft's identity. The server emphasized a welcoming, anti-hate environment, long-term friendships, Discord activity, and player-built landmarks that accumulated over years in the same world.
No griefing was central to the server's rules, with land claims protecting player builds and staff tools available for investigating server-fault incidents. The community also maintained a strict stance against hate speech and abusive behavior.
HearthCraft promoted a 0% pay-to-win store and separated paid perks from direct survival power. The former store remains identifiable as the server's shop but is currently unavailable after the server's closure.
Resource worlds are designated dimensions or maps intended for renewable gathering while helping preserve another world for construction.
HearthCraft maintained separate resource worlds for renewable mining and exploration while preserving the main world for long-term builds.
Additional tracked objectives beyond standard Minecraft advancements, rewarding players for completing varied tasks, milestones, or challenge conditions.
BlazeandCave's achievement system supplied HearthCraft with hundreds of extra goals beyond equipment upgrades and construction.
No-griefing rules prohibit players from deliberately damaging, stealing from, or disrupting other players’ builds and possessions.
No-griefing was a central HearthCraft rule, reinforced by claims and staff investigation tools to protect long-term player builds.
Auction systems let players list items for competitive purchase, browse offers, and acquire goods through time-limited or public sales.
Auctions were part of HearthCraft's player-driven economy alongside shops, trading, and regular currency progression.
Resource resets periodically regenerate designated gathering areas so players can continue obtaining materials without replacing permanent building regions.
HearthCraft refreshed resource worlds separately; the resource Overworld commonly reset monthly while the main world remained intact.
A leveling system tracks player advancement and provides an additional progression path beyond ordinary Minecraft equipment and achievements.
HearthCraft combined playtime and economy-based leveling with survival gear, mcMMO skills, and custom achievements.
Player Warps let players create publicly accessible destinations for shops, bases, services, or community locations across the server world.
Players could create and use player warps to reach community locations and other destinations across the survival world.
Pets are collectible or companion entities that accompany players for companionship, presentation, or optional utility in the game world.
HearthCraft added pets as a server-side companion system alongside its otherwise close-to-vanilla survival gameplay.
Player trading lets participants exchange resources, crafted goods, or equipment directly or through an organized economy.
Trading was listed alongside shops and auctions as part of HearthCraft's player-driven economy.
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History of HearthCraft
The first iteration of HearthCraft launched in October 2018 on Minecraft 1.12. It gained early traction, then began to flourish more fully in April 2019. From July 2019 onward, the main world was kept as a persistent long-term world rather than being reset.
During the pandemic years, HearthCraft grew into a large community with long-running builds, regular events, and a strong social identity. Its survival systems remained close to vanilla while plugins added claims, skills, pets, economy tools, and additional achievements.
HearthCraft closed on April 18, 2025. The shutdown followed years of technical debt, world files approaching 1 TB, the owner's transition to college, and difficult-to-reverse problems during the move to Minecraft 1.21.
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HearthCraft was a no-griefing economy SMP that kept ordinary survival at the center while adding land claims, mcMMO, pets, a leveling system, player shops, auctions, and resource worlds.
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