MineBuilders
Player History
24 Hours · Hourly
Daily History
| Day | Average ? | Change ? | % Change ? | Daily Peak ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8 TuesdayToday · In progress | 398.3 | +77.7 | +24.24% | 478 |
| Sep 7 Monday | 320.6 | -25.5 | -7.37% | 481 |
| Sep 6 Sunday | 346.1 | -10.0 | -2.82% | 510 |
| Sep 5 Saturday | 356.2 | +14.0 | +4.09% | 520 |
| Sep 4 Friday | 342.2 | -3.8 | -1.11% | 584 |
| Sep 3 Thursday | 346.0 | +10.5 | +3.14% | 527 |
| Sep 2 Wednesday | 335.5 | +2.5 | +0.75% | 499 |
| Sep 1 Tuesday | 333.0 | -74.4 | -18.26% | 537 |
| Aug 31 Monday | 407.3 | -51.9 | -11.30% | 690 |
| Aug 30 Sunday | 459.2 | -283.2 | -38.14% | 738 |
About MineBuilders
MineBuilders is a Rust-inspired Minecraft survival network. In RustV2, you gather resources, unlock schematics, build a base, join a faction, hunt for loot, and fight with custom guns and armor. Dangerous zones and powerful bosses offer better gear, but they also attract other players.
The server mixes open-world survival with claims, base upgrades, explosives, vehicles, aircraft, events, and competitive combat. Protection mode gives new players time to learn, while faction warfare, raids, high-tier loot areas, and wipe cycles create the main long-term tension.
What Makes It Different
MineBuilders feels like Minecraft rebuilt around Rust-style base warfare. You do not just find better diamond gear; you hunt for schematics, guns, armor, raid keys, vehicles, and boss drops while protecting a real faction base.
Factions is a Minecraft multiplayer mode where players join organized groups, build shared bases, and compete with rival groups for territory, resources, and strategic advantage.
Players create factions, claim land with Faction Blocks, invite members, form alliances, and fight over territory.
Bosses are unusually powerful Minecraft enemies that demand more preparation and deliberate combat than ordinary mobs.
Bosses provide raid keys, special equipment, and some of the strongest progression rewards.
Raiding is attacking another player’s base to breach its defenses, reach its valuables, and weaken or destroy its ability to operate.
C4, raid-eligible blocks, reinforced structures, explosives, and base attacks are central systems.
Survival servers let players gather resources, craft gear, build shelter, and develop a base while staying alive in a dangerous world.
RustV2 is fundamentally an open-world survival mode built around gathering, crafting, bases, and loot.
PvP is Minecraft gameplay centered on direct combat between players.
Custom guns, armor, faction combat, FairPlay balancing, and player warfare define much of the experience.
Custom Items are server-created weapons, tools, armor, or usable objects with abilities or properties beyond Minecraft’s standard items.
The server adds custom guns, armor, explosives, schematics, vehicles, and many other non-vanilla items.
PvE is Minecraft gameplay centered on surviving and overcoming enemies and hazards controlled by the game rather than by other players.
Named bosses, hostile mobs, dungeons, radiation zones, and dangerous loot areas provide substantial PvE progression.
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.
Faction Blocks create and expand protected claims.
Start by using `/map` to learn the major landmarks. Gather wood from log piles and collect sulfur, iron, and coal from ore piles. Smelt iron in a furnace.
Craft at a workbench or crafting table. Schematics unlock items that you do not know yet. Build away from other players, place a Faction Block, and expand your claim as your faction grows.
A protected mode helps new players gather supplies and set a spawn bed. Protected players cannot attack others, enter boss fights, or enter the enderworld.
Early progress comes from chests, zombies, resource piles, and basic crafting. Bandits, dungeons, ocean areas, the Nuclear Power Plant, and The Zone provide stronger loot.
Rare progression comes from schematics, special armor, raid keys, and boss drops. Notable rewards include Kevlar, ghillie equipment, anti-radiation armor, plasma weapons, explosives, and powerful guns.
Many raid-key bosses require a prepared team. Some are suitable for one player, while the hardest fights expect two to four players with near-maximal armor.
MineBuilders adds custom guns, armor sets, explosives, crafting recipes, schematics, building materials, mobs, bosses, vehicles, aircraft, turrets, radiation systems, loot tables, and a custom combat interface.
Special equipment includes ghillie armor, anti-radiation armor, Kevlar, plasma weapons, nitrogen guns, helicopters, planes, and other items not found in ordinary Minecraft survival.
The world is built around named danger and loot areas rather than a plain survival landscape. Players can explore The Zone, the Nuclear Power Plant, Docks, ocean platforms, bandit bases, volcano dungeons, caves, military locations, and random ender dungeons.
The Zone is a large irradiated city reached through train-station tunnels. Radiation, hostile mobs, boss arenas, and valuable chests make high-tier travel a serious risk.
Combat uses custom guns, armor ratings, grenades, explosives, grapples, and special weapons. The sword icon beside a player's name shows combined armor strength.
FairPlay balancing reduces damage from larger teams against smaller teams and adds stronger friendly-fire penalties to oversized groups. Damage from players outside an active fight is heavily reduced.
Raiding is possible when blocks are raid-eligible. C4 damages nearby blocks, but it cannot destroy downward unless the target sits above natural terrain such as grass, dirt, or sand. Iron doors cannot be destroyed by explosives.
RustV2 progression is driven mainly by gathered resources, schematics, loot, equipment, raid keys, and faction perk points. Tournaments also award minigame points that can be spent in a reward shop.
Events include air drops, military air drops, King of the Hill, Bounty, Stronghold captures, Emissions, Meteors, and automatic tournaments.
Tournaments can include duels, air battles, Rebirth, and battle royale. Strongholds and other faction events can award perk points used to improve faction abilities.
Players can use the MineBuilders Discord, forums, community polls, support tickets, ban appeals, reports, and suggestions. Faction chat and allied factions support organized team play inside RustV2.
Faction claims protect player building areas, but raid-eligible structures can still be attacked with C4. Doors, blocks, explosives, team sizes, protection mode, and FairPlay combat each have specific limits.
The server also restricts some third-party clients and supports vanilla-style clients, LabyMod, and the MineBuilders client for its custom gameplay.
The store sells permanent ranks, tradable rank vouchers, RustV2 and Trios items, land reserves, account products, and unbans. Ranks are one-time purchases rather than recurring subscriptions.
Store payments are handled in USD, and purchases are normally final unless an administrator approves an exception.
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History of MineBuilders
MineBuilders was running by February 2012 as a faction-oriented survival server. Its early identity centered on plugins, protected building, shops, staff ranks, and player-run factions.
By 2013, MineBuilders had grown into a broader hub with several game modes. Survival remained important, while SkyBlock, GhostCraft, and other minigames expanded the network beyond one world.
The Rust-inspired mode emerged publicly in 2014. It used a prebuilt map, blueprint-style crafting, radiation towns, custom mobs, and a resource pack. Players could search dangerous areas for rare gear instead of relying only on normal Minecraft mining.
During 2015, the Rust mode developed into a more complete custom survival game. Guns, Kevlar armor, faction warfare, block protection, tiered building materials, raiding, dynamic resources, map cleanup, bosses, and random events became central parts of the experience. Normal and hardcore-style modes gave players different levels of risk.
Over the following years, RustV2 kept its focus on custom combat and base warfare. C4, reinforced construction, special armor, vehicles, dungeons, bosses, and faction systems made progression more involved than standard survival. Wipe discussions and resets became a recurring part of the mode's life.
The network's current structure includes RustV2 and Rust Trios. RustV2 supports faction claims, loot zones, tournaments, account security tools, and a large collection of named bosses and events. Trios provides a smaller-team variation of the same Rust-like idea.
The July 4, 2026 RustV2 update added the Docks ocean loot zone, a rebuilt Nuclear Power Plant, the Hollow Moon boss, Reinforced Chests, longer caves, critical-hit combat, and FairPlay balancing for uneven fights. MineBuilders now stands as a specialized Java survival network built around custom Rust-style systems rather than ordinary vanilla progression.
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