Hidden Sanctuary SMP

Tired of servers that disappear after two weeks or bombard you with pay-to-win nonsense such as lootboxes? Are you looking for an up-to-date Vanilla SMP that stays true to the core Minecraft experience — with just enough plugins to make multiplayer a smoother and more fun, diverse experience? Oh and as a bonus: future plans to add custom content which fits the vanilla minecraft gameplay loop?

Welcome to Hidden Sanctuary!

What is this server about?

A passion project turned whitelisted community — now opening back up to the public. This server is 100% FREE TO PLAY. A server made by a player, for players. There is no expiration date. Hidden Sanctuary will always receive active maintenance and updates as to fit the demand of its players. Our customized server plan for the VPS we use (hosted at Hostinger) lasts until July 2028. This could provide you with a tangible reason as to why this server will not be a two week vacation.

Today we have updated our serversoftware (PurPur) to 1.21.6. Now that all of our core plugins are supported by Minecraft 1.21.6. To celebrate the new patch we have opened a brand new vanilla survival overworld (10k*10k), which links to our existing custom generated overworld (20k*20k), custom nether and custom end world. All the portals to the SMP are found at spawn. Which is where you will find yourself when you first join Hidden Sanctuary.

All of these worlds share inventories and exp. KeepInventory is turned off. All players start with an immortal backpack that can store up to 9 rows of items which are always safe from death. Players can make, maintain and customize claims in all existing worlds, safe from griefing using the /lands system. PvP is turned on everywhere, except for in claims and the creative world. Our server has daily backups in case something were to ever go wrong, however using tools such as CoreProtect and custom rollback plugins usually solves any issue to do with griefing.

This server is intended for chill gamers, those looking to have a good time playing vanilla Minecraft SMP with a bunch of quality of life features and plugins that make multiplayer more fun.

We also have a creative world which you can gain access to by playing on Hidden Sanctuary for at least a month, and being active in the community.


Server Background & Roadmap:

There is a lot of information about all the features and plugins, but it would be too much to cover it all in this server post. We have a detailed overview of all our server information on Discord, in the #server-info channel.

This project started early 2021. Over the years it has seen several itterations. I have learned a lot about hosting and developing a Minecraft SMP. I have spent a lot of time developing assets for my SMP, from custom monsters to NPCs to quests to the spawn, custom world generation configuratons using Terra and so much more..

Hidden Sanctuary has been revamped as a whitelisted community server for my Twitch / YouTube community, with the longterm plan of making it a public server once ready. The time has arrived to do so. A lot of features from older iterations of Hidden Sanctuary will be rolled out over time.

These feature's include: 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, a servershop, an unrenewable blocks shop, voting for free ingame cosmetics and much more.

Rarely do server owners/devs partake in the gameplay on their own server. Even if its in order to improve, and make it better. I think because I do play on my own server it really helps me understand what people look for in a good Minecraft SMP.

Server Rules:

- Be civilized and respectful of other players, in whatever way possible.
- Do not start verbal fights with other players.
- Do not ask for free items, asking for help is always fine!
- No NSFW or Political discussions in the global chat.
- No cheat clients or hacks of any kind (some custom clients are allowed).
- No griefing of any kind.
- Try not to build any obnoxious crap in clear sight such as 1x1 towers, and if you have to just remove it after.
- Always speak English in the global chat.
- Do not dox or impersonate anyone, ever.
- You are required to have fun on this SMP.

JOIN US:

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

Hidden Sanctuary – Est. 2021 | Created by Knetter