History of Minecraft SMPs in 10 Minutes 

CORRECTIONS: - A lot of the Hermitcraft adjacent SMPs and youtubers were left out - Dream SMP ended for a variety of other reasons I didn't mention, including Technoblade's death - Scripted SMP content stopped being made because kids content was more profitable - wow that dream joke did not age well

I love how Minecraft SMP’s we’re all over the place while hermitcraft is just vibin off camera

Grian's __ Life SMP series definitely deserves recognition. It's a simple but unique premise, and the way that all the storylines emerge completely on their own, without scripting, is amazing. Also, Empires. All of the scripted roleplaying of the DSMP with very little of the drama and toxicity. While we're on that topic, X Life/Origins/Afterlife/New Life. That shit slaps.

Hermitcraft is just perfect in almost every aspect and is actually a very peaceful server with mature and entertaining members. There are several OGs like Docm77 and Ethoslab. RU-vid Giants like Mumbo and Grian. And overall, a great person who manages the sever and has amazing leadership skills, Xiumavoid. RIP to TinFoilChef, we lost him a few months ago, truly a Hermit. ❤

As some who was really into the Dream SMP, I feel as if the fanbase didn't die from Jikishi, but more of from Technoblade's passing and 3 of the main members (Ranboo, Tubbo, and Tommy) gradually stopping making content together. Technoblade especially though impacted it, as most of the people I've seen in the fandom left after his passing and the remaining few left after Dream's grooming accusations.

crazy how skyboi invented minecraft smps. very informative video!

This is amazing!!!! This must have taken a lot of time to research. And I'm sorry to say this, but another factor that somewhat caused the DSMP to not continue was Techno's death. Once he died, nothing was going to be the same. Ph1lza and Nikki saw this after Dream brought up the fact for the next season that everyone had to forget their memories of Techno. Which cause them to basically say no, I'm not forgetting everything that he did on this server. Causing them to be the second and third person to quit. After they left, other people began to see this problem, causing a chain reaction.

Really cool video, it’s so interesting to see how lots of smaller SMPs either have led to/were a cause of other SMPs. Surprised there wasn’t more coverage on the Hermitcraft side of things - especially with the 2 related series of Empires SMP and The Life SMP (Third/Last/Double/Limited Life)

Lifesteal: Competition and Stakes QSMP: Lore and Events Hermitcraft: Collaboration and Community I think each stands as the pillars of what makes an SMP fun.

I'm shocked that Empires, the life series like X and New Life, and the other life series like Third and Last Life weren't mentioned. That's a WHOLE section of SMPs and creators with big fanbases that were completely left out Great video otherwise though!

this is super well researched. i've mostly,,,, absorbed all this info through just being in the mcyt space over the past three years but i dont think i could have made such a succinct timeline. gg dude i kinda wish there was more coverage of hermitcraft-adjacent smps like empires or the life series etc but it might not fit into 10 minutes then lol

Hermitcraft has and will always survive every SMP.

Really cool video but it kinda sucks to not see Mianite on here :p. It should definitely be up there as one of the most iconic Minecraft SMPS and literally 2 of the top 3 twitch streamers in 2015/16 got their viewers FROM Mianite (Syndicate & CaptainSparklez). I really think it's the blueprint for what comes after, and sets up the roleplay aspect that the DreamSMP later used. It deserves some credit!

When you think about how old some of the bigger servers are, or when you started getting into them, you feel old. I mean I started watching Hermitcraft at the beginning of Season 6, and the Lifesteal Smp like mid to late season 3. And those events happnend a while ago, but they feel like yesterday.

2009-2012 - Wild West Age (MC Online, Mindcrack) 2012-2015 - Hermitkraft Age (Hermitkraft, Attak of þe B-Team) 2016-2018 - Dark Age (???) 2019-2020 - Resurgense Age (SMP Live, SMP Earþ) 2021-2022 - DreamSMP Age (DreamSMP) 2023- - Post-DreamSMP Age (LifestealSMP, QSMP)

Watching this makes me wonder what kind of SMP content will surface after the Lifesteal era inevitably ends.

I stuck around the DreamSMP mainly because of the roleplay. I don't know if the other SMP's had the same aspect, but the fact that after Wilbur joined they started organizing plots and storylines with scripts and people playing characters drove by immaterial motivations rather than just competition to see who is the strongest, was really something that I miss. I still remember how cool was it that Tommy or Quackity would go on to do their character's projects even if they were wearing some iron boots and having only stolen items on them, to move the story forward, yet you still had Technoblade (RIP king) or Ph1lza who you could watch if you wanted to see them grinding as the pros they were.

It was good video I feel like one smp that didn’t get mentioned was Mianite. Unless Mianite isn’t classified as a SMP, but that was one of the servers that showed what was truly possible with live streaming a server.

Nice video! To be honest, there is a funny problem with small SMPs - Lifesteal SMP Made the idea of SMPs so big, that people kinda lost the meaning of SMP and now for them its just "kill, grief, team, betray".

Only the OGs remember Mianite. The server walked so then the Dream SMP could run. I will remember those days o7 By the way, great video!

you didn't mention techno's death as a reason the dream smp died. rip techno

arch voicing tommy is hilaroious

As a hermit craft guy, I liked dsmp and still occasionally watch lifesteal, but man i do love me some HoImYcWaF!!! ( good job if you know who coined that)

I think the scripted videos (or at least the popular ones) stopped because they either moved on with their lives or had moved to non scripted content and since there has to be quite a few people it probably wasn’t worth it anymore.

I don't know if anyone remebers the "How2Minecraft" SMP/Series around 2015, it sort of filled a gap in minecraft content that was not Hypixel related. The youtubers on there are some of the biggest Creators on the platform today and have mostly moved on from Minecraft including people like Preston, JeromeASF, Lachlan, Ali-A, BajanCanadian, Vikkstar123, PeteZahutt etc. I know not everyone watched this but I think it had a relatively big impact on the community at the time, especially because interest in Minecraft was fading

Dude major props for this this was a really good video damn

1:15 the usage of ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny omg

Very nice video! Also unrelated, but love how at 6:08 you used that aria math breakcore remix that has been underground up until recently

What about the life series's? Whilst they werent exactly game-changing they were quite notable in terms of gaining a fan base

2:00 omg the cube smp!! they were my introduction to mcyt, glad they got a cameo here :D awesome video, you can tell you put a lot of research into this

Your presentation and charachter is great, and you have a decently good voice. I'm looking forward to more videos like this and probably the more mainstream ones as well, a bit more research would be nice next time.

Well made video! Really cool looking back at where I was when all of these SMPs were (and still are) existing xD.

Very good video, that summed it up really well, have never heard of the qsmp but there is an smp called the outcasts thats pretty cool

This video was actually rly great, good work sky

Banger vid and pacing was awesome would love to see the retention chart

Amazing content tho, i can guarantee you that this will hit millions and millions of views, so informative, entertaining and well put. Rise to the sky SkyBoi. ❤

Bro 2:15 was so true for me LMAOO I got bullied out of two different channels before this one XD

DAMN all of this in 10 minutes and it held my attention no way, this is really well made and , from what i can tell, accurate :D

8:10 I was 💀💀💀

I really enjoyed this video amazing job BoiSky!

It's crazy how smps have been around for more than a decade. banger video

This video is *pure* 🔥, great job! :D

Another reason why hermitcraft is so popular is because hermitcraft member have friends and are in other amps like empires or life series expanding to a wider audience

5:56 I mean there was definitely more to the rot, but I really think the end of the server was because of technoblades death, even if it was rotting anyway if he had lived then the server definitely would have chugged along longer RIP.

Finally got round to watching an smp related video and I'm not disappointed, very well put together video

ppl are talking about the relatively recent ones left out like the ___Life series and Empires, but I’d also like to note the Yogscast’s SMPs, as insular as they may have been given how they ran as a self-contained set of creators, still were notable for their pre-MC-dark-ages time otherwise, well done! Good video :3

NAHH I WASNT EXPECTING THE COLLEEN DRAMA TO BE IN HERE 😂😂😭😭😭 5:43

8:24 LOL IS THAT SLORDFIGHTER MY ARCH NEMESIS THANK YOU LMAO awesome video btw the editing was hilarious

Epic editing honestly I thought this video had like 200k views then I saw it only had 7K it deserves so much more frfr

Amazing backstory! ❤ earned a sub!

it must have taken huge amounts of research to make this video quite amazing i must say! Editing is quite extraordinary too

To me Mianite was probably the most influential SMP as it was practically the most popular minecraft content on Twitch up untill that point where all members were very significant personalities on the website back then (Syndicate and CaptainSparklez being both top streamers back then and Firefox as top female streamer for a bit). As twitch later became the fundamental website for most minecraft SMP content, it feels like SMPLive and consequently DreamSMP capitalized on how well smp content works on twitch and streaming as a whole

I loved this video. It just told me sm about how much mc has grown.

Love the addressing of the scripted videos B) Honestly really accurate timeline wise as well as how concepts came to be via the SMP genre's.

Good Video, went over everything you would ever want to know, 10/10. Free entertainment as well.

BANGER VIDEOO🔥🔥🔥 i remember when this had like 25 views and when i finally got around to watching it, it has a well deserved (almost) 100k :D i have no idea what the next big content idea is gonna be but this video definitely has a lot of information packed in to think about!

crazy good vid bro. I wish for one day there will be a humongous every-creator smp at the center of it all.

Lifesteal on top. Amazing video, good research. Good Job. I can tell you put a lot of work into this video

I feel like you should've talked about Grian's life series (3rd life, Last life, Double life and Limited life). It's sort of like lifesteal, but with people who aren't very good at pvp. It's something that definitely should've been mentioned. Good video nonetheless.

can't wait for the 'creative mode' multiplayer servers

Neues Video! Super :) Deine Videos sind so unterhaltsam!

More so than the reasons mentioned in the video, the biggest reason for the Dream SMP going downhill was because Covid started to ease up. While everyone was in lockdown, RU-vid and twitch blew up in terms of active users per day. That brought the perfect opportunity for the dream SMP to blow up. Then you include the storylines. Once the major storylines ended, and the world opened back up, that’s when the Dream SMP closed down

This was a banger of a video cant wait to see more like this

if it's not to hard to ask can you make a part 2 of this with more of the less known SMP's like bear smp? and maybe add in the life series? (3rd life, last life, double life and limited life) but other then that. great video!

Disagree that most of the dream smp fans moved over to lifesteal. Most of them either continued watching those creators and QSMP, or moved over to watching the hermitcraft side of things (especially the Life Series, which had a huge overlap with dream smp fans)

the mindcrack disrespect is crazy

Great vid man, super entertaining.

"History of the last 3 years of minecraft SMPs in 10 minutes" would be a more accurate title

exactly 10 minutes. so satisfying

this was SO worth the wait

this was actually an awesome recap omg

Amazing video sky noice editing 😊

The thirdlife series by Grian and the empires SMP both are very popular as well

We really do have the the holy trinity of SMPs right now. "Hardcore"-LifeSteal, Vanilla-HC, Worldwide talent-QSMP

This is actually accurate! Nice job!

10/10 video, this should blow up!

Hermitcraft, empires, and all the smaller smp’s made of people in both are just kind of vibing in the background

Wow. Another amazing youtuber. Earned a sub

Bro this is such a banger, first even vid I watched from you and im insta subbing. underrated as hell

There was also Minecraft Daily at one point. Even Skydoesminecraft participated in a few of the episodes. They also had roleplaying and stuff like that.

This is a great video, really well made!

Great intro man

In my opinion, the hermitcraft, is the best style of smp content. Its just so fun when Grian, Mumbu Jumbo, Bdubs or (insert gigachad music) Ethoslab uploads and it just them building, farming, mining, or just pranking or playing games with eachother.

Great video, I rly enjoyed it, earned a sub and I hope you make more content like this.

yeap you most likely deserve a biger audience GOOD JOB

i used to be on a server called the awaken smp, but i only ended up posting one video because i tried to do everything in legit survival, whereas everyone else was just making their videos with commands. i just stopped posting minecraft altogether cus it got boring and later started this channel

As someone in the twilight smp ( 9:05 ) I’m happy we have been recognized

Thanks for the info, you are a very underrated RU-vidr❤

Amazing video keep up the great work

I love that you use the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny as background music, great choice

I love the use of Terraria music in the background, good job with the edditing!

1:58 OMG SKYBOI USED AN IMAGE I SENT HIM IN THIS VIDEO, truely amazing this image has gone from some random counterstike steam post to a minecraft video it is truely an hounor to have this image in such a great video.

This video was awesome dude!

Weirdly enough, I honestly don't think the poor treatment of women, mistake of trying to add Jikishi to the server or immense hatred for the Dream SMP actually contributed to its decline in any meaningful way (granted you meant decline as in viewership and not just decline in reputation). I'll go point by point: - The female members were treated incredibly badly by many fans and reportedly some members ever since the start, but it was brought to the forefront once the SMP was already mostly dormant as streamers reflected back on their time in the server. However even when some members such as Nihachu (one of the most well-known female streamers on the SMP) spoke about the misogynistic treatment she received, speaking on the matter as far back as at least February 2021, it didn't affect the server's continued support and success. That said once the server had died down, it did actually raise awareness to larger issues within the MCYT community, as the same creators faced similar issues in other major spheres such as by fans when they participated in events like the MC Championship and when featured in MC collab videos. In short, the horrible sexism was present and brought up early on but never actually impacted how well or active the SMP was. - The incident with Jikishi took place in October 2021, but Dream SMP continued to find massive success after that point, such as Technoblade's jailbreak livestream in November 2021 that amassed over 15 and a half million views. So while it was a big drama at the time, it was just one in a long list of controversies rather than playing any part in the decline. - Finally, the hatred was also around for a long while before the decline too. Dream's speedrun cheating allegations took place since October 2020, and along with many other Dream-related controversies (i.e. Dream's mask video, tweets and general parasocial behavior) largely contributed towards alot of the hate for the Dream SMP. However it never affected output, content or quality from the other creators involved, with the Dream SMP's biggest viewership happening in January 2021. All in all, given the amount of diehard Dream SMP fans as late as early 2022, the only thing that actually killed the Dream SMP was the lack of communication between members; Dream failing to properly manage the server in any meaningful way beyond vague promises of future plans; and the slow migration of creators away from the server for various personal reasons along with pressure surrounding the need to do lore-related content without damaging legacy builds (with activity going from daily streams from multiple large-scale members to sometimes no stream from any large-scale members for months). It initially had plans for a season 2 and some members did finales for their characters for the sake of giving fans closure, but with no proper organisation, communication or interest from the streamers themselves, it never went forward.

Great video, although you did forget about some SMP's. Heres a few that were forgotten: - Content SMP - They have one of my favorite ideas for a SMP. The Youtbubers can add mods to the server and also make mods - FoolCraft - Modded, Has Iskall85 and Xisumavoid and some others from hermitcraft - Empire SMP - Very cool building SMP with the same level of story as the Dream SMP, also has a crossover with Hermitcraft - Last Life SMP - Limited Lives, Boogyman is selected every once in a while - The Ripple Effect SMP - 20 smaller content creators in a smp - MineCrack - Although a Old SMP it was probably the first SMP many long time viewers saw - Mianite SMP - Not entirely sure but I hear it was a good one - SciCraft - You know that video where you see the million mobs come out of a farm. That but more mobs the SMP - Vault Hunters - This covers a few diffrent SMPS. Currently Iskall85 is running a Vault Hunter SMP that is very well done - Evolution SMP - SMP that started in the earliest version of minecraft and progressed versions over time - Legacy SMP - Lore/Fantasy SMP - Orgins SMP - SMP with Mod that gives players specal ability based on Orgin Chosen These are some of the more notable SMPS I can recall.

ahahah I really enjoyed you poking fun at Dream and you’re overall a pretty entertaining guy. I’ll stick around

A really interesting watch, though I will say as someone who's been in fandoms and is now in the hermitcraft fandom that "character x reader" gross erotic fanfics and things are nothing new and I don't think they're new to minecraft fandoms either (unfortunately). I do think its interesting how minecraft smp videos have evolved, and in some way I do miss the more simple Let's Play videos like Hermitcraft, which seems to be one of the few SMP video series' that have stood the test of time and keep with the original format. Not to say the Lifesteal SMP videos are bad or anything, I get why people are resorting to catchy clickable or awesome ideas and I don't blame them, plus I watch a lot of those videos too. It's just kinda interesting and maybe a little sad to see the evolution of these videos and how if you wanna grow your fanbase usually the older lets play format doesn't really work much.

love the new style :D

Amazing video skyboi

i loved it when dream smp'd all over the place