Hidden Sanctuary [SMP] [Vanilla+] [NEW] [1.21.8]

Tired of servers that disappear after two weeks or bombard you with pay-to-win nonsense like lootboxes?

Hidden Sanctuary is a true Vanilla SMP experience, enhanced just enough with quality-of-life plugins to improve multiplayer — without breaking the core gameplay loop.

A server hosted and developed by a Minecraft lover, with lots of prior mc server experience. Many server owners never even play their own game. I do. I'm constantly improving Hidden Sanctuary from within, based on real gameplay. Hidden Sanctuary is a living project that evolves with its players.


✅ Why would I want to play on Hidden Sanctuary?

100% FREE TO PLAY - No P2W, anywhere, ever!

Actively maintained and hosted until AT LEAST July 2028 on a custom VPS plan (Hostinger).

The server is hosted in France, providing great ping for EU and US players — and likely decent for many others.

Strong server hardware - Online 24/7 with TPS never dropping below 19.8

A server that communicates and asks its players for feedback and opinions.

Player feedback is actively considered by the Hidden Sanctuary staff.

If players demand certain functionality or a change and the majority agrees it is very likely it will change.

Lots of flexibility offered by our serversoftware PurPur. Did you know we were able to ride Ghasts for years already ;)

Whenever you die in any of the worlds all of your items, and 75% of your experience are stored safely iside a grave that spawns on the death location.

You can make land claims in all of our worlds that let you customize your claim by turning on or off things as natural mob spawning, pvp etc..

A mature community filled with a bunch of really good minecraft players. Casual players are more than welcome too!

You start with a 6*9 row immortal backpack. Any items stored in the backpack are safe from death.

We just updated to Minecraft 1.21.6, and launched a brand new 10k x 10k size survival overworld, generated by default vanilla minecraft worldgen:

Our main overworld is generated by a worldgen called Terra (our own config pack) with:

A 20k x 20k custom overworld,
A custom nether (Incendium datapack)
A custom end.

All these worlds share inventories and EXP, but KeepInventory is off.

A roadmap can be found on our discord with many things to come such as: Ingame GUI that shows all the servers core features & commands. Custom enchantments, custom mobs, custom blocks, custom items, an additional customized hardmode world (known as the aether that can be accessed after killing the ender dragon several times), a hardcore mode, more servershops, an unrenewable blocks, custom currency system (essence), duel arenas for PVP wager matches, player shops, voting for free ingame cosmetics and much more. These features are actively being ported over and deployed over multiple patch cycles.

All major (and most minor) changes are logged in patch-notes. No surprises.

PvP is enabled everywhere (except in claims and creative), and all builds/bases are protected against griefing via the land claim plugin, and tools like CoreProtect + Rollback support.

We also perform daily backups for peace of mind.

We organise fun events for our community every now and then like for example Minecraft Skribble.


📜 Server Rules (Short Version)

Always remain respectful, civil, and helpful towards other players on the server.
No hacks, exploits or griefing (has exceptions such as TNT duping for a tree farm, ask if not sure).
No lag machines or obscure redstone builds that.
Only speak English in global chat.
No doxxing or impersonation.
Don’t spam 1x1 towers or build eyesores.
Have fun — it’s required!

🧭 Join Hidden Sanctuary

We’re looking for chill, respectful players who enjoy long-term vanilla-style SMP with meaningful additions. If that sounds like you — Join us:

IP: hiddensanctuary.net
Discord: discord.gg/ms3w9rFA6k

Est. 2021 | Created by Knetterkoekje