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SteadfastSMP

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14players

Player History

24 Hours · Hourly

Now14
Average20
Daily Peak29
All Time Peak36
Uptime100.00%
3023158018:00Sep 806:00
LanguageEnglish
Minecraft VersionVelocity 1.7.2-26.2
LocationReston, Virginia, United States
NetworkOVH US LLC
FoundedFebruary 2026

About SteadfastSMP

SteadfastSMP is a hard-difficulty survival SMP built around long-term worlds. There are no seasonal resets, so towns, farms, shops, and large builds are meant to stay. Java and Bedrock players share one world, and no whitelist blocks new players.

Death still matters. Keep inventory is off, but a protected death chest keeps your items safe for 72 hours. GriefPrevention claims protect land, while PvP normally stays off unless players choose to fight.

The custom systems improve vanilla without replacing it. Steadfast Markets supports offline sales, rechargeable tools speed up established players, and portable villager traders help technical builders. The Crown adds a server-wide PvP hunt for players who want extra danger.

What Makes It Different

SteadfastSMP lets players keep the danger of hard survival without making every death destroy months of work. Claims and 72-hour death chests protect long-term projects, while opt-in PvP and the Crown create fights only when players choose them.

Its market is also unusually hands-off. Players set prices, sell while offline, and compete through supply and demand instead of relying on admin shops.

SteadfastSMP Gameplay

The main world uses hard difficulty, vanilla mob spawning, and an eight-chunk simulation distance. Mob farms are intended to behave much like they do in singleplayer. Stackable spawners are available for more compact farm designs.

New players can join immediately without a whitelist or application. Starter claim blocks and community help make the opening phase less punishing, but the world still expects players to manage food, gear, travel, and risk themselves.

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History of SteadfastSMP

SteadfastSMP launched in February 2026 with a commitment to keep its world running for at least ten years. Its central promise was permanence: builds and progress would not disappear in a seasonal reset.

The server paired that long-term approach with hard survival. Keep inventory stayed off, but 72-hour death chests gave players a recovery window after dangerous deaths. Land claims added protection for serious builds without removing the risks of unclaimed land, trusted players, trading, or PvP.

As the server developed, it added custom systems that stayed close to normal Minecraft. Steadfast Markets made player trading work across time zones by allowing offline sales and automatic price comparison. Rechargeable tools added 3x3 mining, tree felling, vein mining, and auto-replanting after players reached the late game.

The server also introduced portable villager trading blocks. These preserve vanilla trades while reducing villager pathfinding, supporting hopper automation, and letting players move their trading setups more easily. The SteadfastVillagers project was released as free, open-source software.

The Crown became the server's main competitive feature. One Crown grants buffs but reveals its holder on the live map and forces PvP, turning a normally peaceful survival world into a temporary manhunt when someone claims it.

Today, SteadfastSMP remains a permanent Java-and-Bedrock survival world with family tools, a player-run economy, protected claims, optional proximity voice chat, and a small-community style. Its systems are designed to make a long-running SMP easier to live in without turning it into a minigame network.

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