THEYRE BRINGING MINEPLEX BACK THIS SUMMER
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THEYRE BRINGING MINEPLEX BACK THIS SUMMER
Going back to my roots, drawing commissions for Mineplexians xD
The past few years I've been mourning the loss of old school minecraft minigame servers. I remember playing on the Hive and Mineplex and a bunch of other servers for hours because there were so many silly unique games to play.
But in the past few years I've found that there's really not much of that anymore. The Hive shut down and is only on Bedrock now (no hate to Bedrock but I personally just prefer Java and the Bedrock hive just looks like there's a different vibe), Mineplex shut down, and I feel like the minigame market is just dominated by Hypixel. I love hypixel, I grew up on it just like the other servers I mentioned, but let's all be honest here, it's really not as fun when there's only one place to go. (Also I'm super petty because their version of hide and seek is atrociously boring and I miss the Hive's hide and seek. Or even Mineplex's version with the mobs. This is the case with a lot of other gamemodes where I feel other servers did it better unfortunately.)
I know minigames aren't in the spotlight as much anymore. With the uptick of SMP content, that seems to have taken the forefront of the server market from what I've seen. And no hate to SMPs either, I love that kind of stuff, but I really do miss the variety of minigames.
So I really have to ask here, does anyone know any minigame servers other than Hypixel for java minecraft? Stuff that's not painfully competitive (Another of my issues with hypixel), maybe some classic survival games? Hide and seek obv, party style games, TTT, basically anything with the vibe of mid 2010s minigame servers because I've been looking for ages and for the life of me I can't seem to find anything and I'm desperate.
Before Hypixel took over the Minecraft Server meta, there was Mineplex. Mineplex had two gamemodes I really liked: Hunger Games and Wizards.
Hunger games was well known; played by many. Start off with nothing, find chests with items, kill all other players. I remember running into GameKnight999 once, a star and creator in his own Minecraft book series.
Wizards was one of a kind. Hunger games but instead of items, you collect spells. There were 27 unique spells that you had to collect and manage. It was chaos, and I loved it.
I cried when it got removed.
2013-2014 Lobby, Mineplex, Minecraft
Have you been here?
I have been here
I have not been here
RIP MINEPLEX
Man rip Mineplex, that shit was my entire childhood tbh. Sad to see it gone but I think it's about time unfortunately, felt like watching a slow and painful death so I think it's good to be officially over with now. You will be missed o7
Y’all I’m really sad right now

Mine Plex shut down for days ago, and I never thought the shut down of a server would make me so upset, and the countless hours I spent on there, playing block hunt and other mini games  it’s just all gone now just a memory you know 10 years from now almost no one’s gonna remember this thing that millions of people enjoyed and thrived on and logging onto it in the last year or two it was just dead and desolate  and now it’s just a memory. It really makes me sad. It reminds me that nothing is forever and that you have to cherish what you have in the time.  it really shows me that my childhood is basically over mine Plex had a good run may the memory live on. 🥲