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Minecraft Survival Servers
Survival is one of the oldest and original gameplay types in Minecraft's history, revolving around collecting resources, building bases, fighting mobs and exploring the world. It has been around since May 2009, and continues to be a thriving gameplay type used in the community today.
Freedonia (MinecraftOnline) has the honor of being the oldest survival server It was created within 1 hour of the Minecraft's Survival multiplayer being available. Launched way back on 4th August 2010, it has never been reset and is still running today!
Best Minecraft Survival Servers
Without a doubt Hypixel is one of the most popular survival servers ever created.
WIth an all time peak of 216558 players online at one time just over a year ago (2021).
Other Notable Minecraft Survival Servers are:
- Mineplex
- The Seed
- The Archon
- MCHub
- Minewind
- Herobrine
Vanilla Minecraft Survival Servers
Vanilla servers tend to be quick and easy to setup and have no plugins that modify the game. This makes Minecraft the plainest or purest version of the game it can possibly be. Some people might call this ordinary or default
Most people tend toward setting up a semi-vanilla survival server that allow a few mods that help with gameplay and anti-hacker mods.
A couple of semi-vanilla servers to look out for are:
Vanilla Europa is a semi-vanilla Minecraft Server with simple mods for anti-griefing.
Simply-Vanilla SMP use minimal plugins and data packs. They and strive for a community-driven experience, similar to that of early hermitcraft/classic Minecraft multiplayer.
Minecraft Survival Servers Bedrock
Minecraft Bedrock Edition is designed to run on platforms such as Android, iOS, XBox, PS4, Windows 10 and other platforms.
One of the great Bedrock Minecraft Survival Servers has to be Mineplex. They have been active since January 2013 as a Java server but also host a Bedrock edition (which is far more popular) on pe.mineplex.com.
Minecraft Survival Servers Java
Herobrine is an urban legend within the Minecraft community that tells the tale of a player known as Notch (The creator of Minecraft) who left behind a hidden NPC in the game. This NPC was known as Herobrine, he would mess with the player in various ways such as copying the players inventory and destroying the player's creations. He has become one of the most talked about characters in the Minecraft community and has a huge fan base despite being fake (The whole thing started when one of Notch's friends who created a mod that included a hidden NPC in Beta called Herobrine) Herobrine has even had server dedicated to him as well as a dedicated Wiki all about him.
The Herobrine Server is one of the oldest running servers today and is running on Java.
Small Minecraft Survival Servers
The best way to find a small Survival Server is to jump on a Minecraft Server list and do a sort by players online. Small could be any server that has less than 100 players but that is purly down to you as a player. Due to costs servers need to have a certain number of players that can help support the ongoing tasks and fees associated to the server.
Minecraft Survival Servers Reddit
This website is a really large community of gamers from all over the world. They have a lot of different categories, including Minecraft and Servers. You can also find other gamers to play with on the Minecraft servers. If you are looking for a specific type of server you can use the filter to find survival, or something else you like. There are also a lot of tutorials and videos on the website.