Mineplex - The True DEATH of a Minecraft Server... 

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I used to have so much fun playing games with my friends in Mineplex, it's sad to see it lost its touch. RIP Mineplex

2015 Mineplex was the 'golden days' of my Minecraft experience through the years. I met many people during it especially from being staff at the time and I look back very fondly. Sad to see that it has suffered such a death ever since

I really miss the castle siege minigame from mineplex, there was just something special about 100 players on a map. 1/3 which are defending a castle of hordes of zombies, it felt like such a unique fun experience. the map was structured really well, the kits were fun, and fighting alongside many people to defend a big castle, while everyone else is a real player, it was really special to me unfortunately that minigame is long gone, I joined mineplex recently, and apparently it was removed, and it wouldn't have enough players for it anyways.

I really enjoyed when Mineplex and Hypixel were big competitors because it was very interesting to see the unique gamemodes each respective server came up with to keep an edge over the other. That was truly the peak of minecraft server innovation.

I don't think it's too late for Mineplex. If they play their cards right, they can slowly build up a new and positive identity separate from their current one. I personally think the server still has lots of potential, but it will be a massive uphill battle. I can only hope for the best for Mineplex moving forward.

Would love to see this kind of analysis on other large servers. There are so many good ones that I have fond memories of, yet nowadays I hardly even remember their names.

I miss playing Mineplex, (Rest in peace HiveMC, will be missed on Java) but it was heartbreaking to come back to the server in 2018 and seeing the mess of what it used to be, I even remember some mods going around giving people free ranks in order to boost player interest in the server, that was how I got Ultra.

used to do videos on mineplex, it’s genuinely crazy to see how times change

I really hope some kind of resurgence comes about, looking back I didn't know how good I had it. Even having to wait 30-60 minutes for a game of champions 5 years ago is better than a few days

I genuinely really miss mineplex, I've tried to get into hypixel but it's just boring to me, mineplex was really fun, its such a shame

Makes me pretty sad, some of my favourite multiplayer games were unique to mineplex namely halloween havoc, Christmas chaos and super smash mobs and I hate that they are going to be pretty much gone forever if this keeps up

Mineplex holds a special place in my heart for providing minigames Hypixel wouldn't at the time. And there are still a few minigames on Mineplex I don't think I've seen on any other big server but would love to see. I used to be absolutely cracked at that minigame where you get a small build you get to look at for a few seconds and then have to mimic that build as fast as you can, and a lot of my memories with minigames stem from that. Though I do have a same fondness for Hypixels Build Battle, it's not the same as that minigame.

No king rules forever. Thanks to everyone for the fun memories I created playing on Mineplex.

I left mineplex after being an active player for about 4 years in december 2019. My brother was at one point on the staff team, and also left at a similar time. Hypixel was just too much more advanced and had modes like skyblock which were just more enjoyable. The lag on mineplex, and before i got my new pc a year ago i had a laptop, which was strong enough to run mc. I could hold about 15 fps on mp and 40 with the same settings on hypixel. I was getting 130 ping on mp and only 90 on hypixel. Alot of the most known members of mineplex left after hypixel blew up, and i would guess about a 1/3 of the staff team resigned or were demoted in that year. The problem was never the staff team or the fact that there were too many hackers, it was the fact that there just werent enough devs and admins to control the server, and we got maybe 2 minor updates that year. A small part of me still misses gamemodes like dominate, but there was no point in staying, because we were seeing 500 players when there would have been 5 thousand 2 years prior. They tried to save it with the immortal rank, which was pretty much a subscription rank on top of eternal, like mvp++, but although people bought it (myself included), that only lasted a few months and to be honest i considered the server dead before i joined hypixel.

i must have thousands of hours on mineplex. i remember their minigame Wizards was wildly popular until they pulled it for seemingly no reason. the server definitely holds a special place in my heart, as my friends and i spent countless hours goofing off in middle and high school. it's still at the top of my server list, and it makes me sad to see the numbers slowly decline

At one point in time, I was running a community build team and community game insights team for Mineplex in an effort to bring back a game mode called Castle Siege. After about a year and a half of getting nowhere due to nobody listening to us, I basically just left the server in its entirety.

Nearly all of the friends I know were from Mineplex; some I still keep in touch with, and at least one I still hang out with on a daily basis. I've always considered it to be the king of minigame servers because the minigames had a solid identity and level of polish that contributed to a central "skylands medieval fantasy" theme that I absolutely loved.

i used to grind mineplex years ago. good times. i hate the thought of it shutting down and i hope somehow it can come back

Clans was the shit, it was such a unique take on the Factions game mode. Despite not every game mode in MP being fun to me, there was something for everyone, and every game mode was populated. I've made many friends on that server that I still play with today in other games. But yeah... a lack of updates and support/polish as well as corrupt staff made the server pretty dully towards the beginning of its decline.

Man I am so sad about this server. It was by far my most played server. I remember back in 2015 like you mentioned in the video on Halloween was the first time Mineplex hit 40 000 players online. I was with my friends in the lobby at that time, talking over Skype and waiting for the big 40k. I remember it like yesterday and it feels magical. We also got rewarded with 5 or 10 ancient chests, the second tier out of 3. Now those chests are pretty useless. I hope that this backend rewrite is going to go through well and potential new youtube collabs are going to work out in the end. I would hope to at least have 1000 active players...

I remember playing on Mineplex back when I first got Minecraft all those years ago. Had so much fun playing Super Smash Mobs and that castle siege one (Even saw someone who was one hundred percent hacking in that one.) It’s always will be the server I remember the fondest. Hope to see it back in the limelight like it deserves

I feel very sorry for the people trapped in the "popular" thing category. (The people who play the most popular thing.) They would feel like they wasted part of their life on something, I wish people didn't do this like some people I know.

honestly at the minimum, i just want these minigames to be preserved, one of the things Mineplex had over Hypixel was that it had completely new and different minigames, and.. i don't want them to be forgotten

I've actually been binge watching minecraft content of all kinds for the past few months but only since watching this video do I realize none of them advertised a server to join when it used to be a common occurrence. Most projects seem to be on closed servers with a small network of creators and friends, I cant remember the last time I saw a public server ad.

I remember breaking the letter D on my keyboard while playing build battle on mineplex

Now it really is the true death of Mineplex. Gone, but never forgotten. Mineplex will always be one of my favorite servers to have played on, right up there with Wynncraft. Weep not for what we have lost, but smile warmly for the memories we may treasure.

im STILL on Mineplex!!! this is so weird to see because i never found out about any of this story until just this instant, and ive been wondering why the server has been dead for years! it is so amazing to see a retrospective like this!

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss I hope that someday Mineplex can rise back up again. No matter what the devs do, it's the players that'll keep it alive, which I hope all of us will strive to do.

The bigger they are (or were) the harder they fall. Sadly the same seems to be true for Mineplex. Next time i want to be depressed i'll make sure to watch a TheMisterEpic video sheesh

Mineplex was one of the servers automatically added to the bedrock server list. A lot of great memories. Me and my brother would put arrows in our off hand, and it wouldn't clear your off hand, so we got arrows every game.

I have over 1k hours on Mineplex after playing it so much over the years, I’ve had so many good memories on it and really hope Mineplex comes back to life so that I could possibly make a few more.

Today is the sad end of a server

Man it’s crazy how fast popular things can just die like that

I remember when I played Mineplex on MCPE, good times

I remember playing Castle Siege - it had balance issues sometimes, but the main problem was that too many people didn't know how to defend effectively. When you had a core group of defenders who knew how to play and you didn't have fly hackers on the attacking side, it made for some great battles. Hopefully it can come back strong enough to make even games like Castle Siege that need a big crowd viable again. Either that or maybe someone else can make a similar game?

God I loved playing mineplex so much, best memory was during a Halloween event they had a new rank that was about the top rank at the time, and during the event and playing with a friend I ended up getting the rank from a crate and freaked out for hours as it was seen as really rare at the time. Rip mineplex you made my childhood amazing

how.....:(, I hope they comeback because then otherwise I would say that don't be sad because it ended smile because it happened.....

this is so tragic, i use to play on there with my cousin all the time. the waiting room before games is so nostalgic

Recently whenever I tried to play any gamemode on Mineplex, it just wouldn't start up. I couldn't any mention of the issue online, any couldn't get a response on the forum, so I just stopped playing. Issues like that generally cause people to stop playing which is sad because I love Mineplex.

Mineplex was one of my favorite servers growing up. I remember that day when it peaked at 43k players, it was insanely laggy, but still fun.

The correct path is to make cakewars the key minigame. On bedrock it’s the most popular minigame and is no doubt the most fun. Adding new kits would improve the games quality and give players a chance to adapt and play to unlock them. Fixing the noticeably odd lag and hit detection to match servers like Cubecraft and the hive is a big point for me. Revamping the shop again and some of the kits as well will fix the issues that it suffers with builder kit being the only useable one.

Some of my favorite childhood memories are playing on mineplex with friends. My favorite game was definitely the hide and seek one (I can’t remember the name it’s been years lol). I loved the trails/effect things you could get, I had a really sick looking fire one that a really cool almost x shaped pattern when you stood still and would trail behind when you’d move. Sometimes we’d just hang out in the lobby doing the parkour stuff. It’s sad to see that it’s gone downhill but Minecraft multiplayer in general has changed a lot. Maybe it’s the nostalgia talking but I don’t think it’s as fun anymore

its sad that when you search mineplex on yt, the videos which are shown first isnt the server’s minigame itself, but videos about it’s history, downfall, etc

i miss that minigame where you either had to defend the castle from monsters, or be a monster and get past the knights to kill the king, all before sunrise, when all the monsters die. i think they removed it, and it was one of the few games I played there. anyone know what I'm talking about and remember the name? it was great and I have so much nostalgia for it.

Just wait until Mojang _truly_ forces chat reporting (like ways of preventing the modding or circumvention) and *all* servers begin to die...

Considering this was one of my favourite childhood servers, it's especially depressing to see the state it's currently in

Thinking about Mineplex and The Hive makes me tear up. Those were my first experiences to true gaming that started in 1st grade. Now that ones shut down and the other is going to shut down, I feel like I'm physically losing a part of my childhood

Share all my respect tto chiss, running 20 players is hard for a normal person, but he hosted 30k, Real Gigachad

I remember making an MPS and getting like 16 people on it to play games. Now I can't even play a game of Block Hunt without begging people to join, as most people are only in the lobby.

I was in contact with a Former Mineplex developer. Who worked for Mineplex's Bedrock Server. He said that there was a serious shortage of developers. Admins were only there for money. And now there's only one person working for the Mineplex Bedrock Server. Edit: I tried applying for developing it but I was rejected not just me I've heard multiple getting fired for different ideas or not being accepted.

As a former Magma Cube main in SSM, it's sad to see what happened to this place. Changing times I guess

Mineplex paintball has been some of the most fun I’ve had playing Minecraft. I’ve spent tens of thousands of hours on Hypixel and still I feel mineplex paintball is a pretty perfect game. In all the time I played it, I almost encountered no hackers, and more importantly, it is a game that hacking didn’t effect much. I haven’t played it in a few years. No one plays anything on mineplex anymore. There simply isn’t enough players.

Tragic tale of mineplex was the first video I watched on your channel and I instantly fell in love with your content. Keep up the work king!

about 2 and a half minutes ago now, i watched a video about the tragic tale of mineplex.

5:20 One of my hundreds of forum posts actually got me a cameo. But for real, what's happened to Mineplex over the past 5-6 years is tragic. Not even releasing their first new game in over 3 years can save them now.

I like how Bedrock Mineplex’s only update for the whole year was the option to play Solos in Cakewars. Half the Duos Game I played at the time made me a solo..

They released Death Run as their last result. Yeah it’s pretty decent gamemode but it’s a little too late.

Mineplex was my favourite server growing up, I would spend hours just exploring the hub

I stopped playing like a year ago, and I don't remember it being anything like this. Crazy how fast things change.

Been watching & subscribed since the original Mineplex video (when you had like 2k subs) so nice that you've got so far!

As a Bedrock player I've actually been playing Java for the past week simply because Bedrock is in such a boring and lifeless state. No new content there for the past year. Really sucks because I've been playing it since it was still Pocket Edition. At least Java functions and is playable unlike a large portion of Bedrock

I remember playing mineplex bedrock back in 2017-2018 and it was some of my best memories of playing minecraft, it's sad to see it dying.

I tried to play on mineplex just the other day as I haven't played minecraft in years not knowing this and I was absolutely shocked at the complete lack of players

The wizards minigame was basically the only thing i played, once they removed it, they in turn "removed" me. I would still log on from time to time hoping the minigame would be back, in case they were just doing maintainance. Needless to say they never added it back

2.5 years ago?? It's been that long? WOW. I remember when it came out!

Love the Re:Zero music added during the last segment! Instantly recognized it after the first two notes

i remember playing so much turf wars and housing parkours, i really hope Mineplex can do something.

Poor Mineplex, I miss it dearly. I miss the old lobby and tree, I miss a ton of the retired minigames. This is truely a sad day and I'm legitimate crying a bit over it.

This is so sad, I remember hearing and playing Mineplex so long ago. After I had stopped, I had always wondered what on earth had happened to it. Now I know thanks to this informative video. I've always wanted a Hypixel like experience on Bedrock and I believe that Mineplex can definitely deliver. Let's hope this new, improved, optimised code can help restore the server to its once former glory and players can enjoy the server the way it was suppose to be played.

I used to love speed builders and the block hunt I think it was called but now, with that being really the only game modes mineplex has that hypixel doesn't, I just never feel a reason to log onto mineplex instead of hypixel

I think you should do another one of these on Shotbow. That really was one of the best PVP servers back in the day. All of their game modes were amazing. They had precursors to modern Battle Royale games, a clone of some of the more intricate Arma game modes, unique game types, etc. Definitely have a lot of good memories about that server but I just can't remember what killed it...

I used to love playing on Mineplex back in the day. My favorite game to play was turf wars, I could play it for hours and never get bored. I also made a friend on Mineplex, Dragonsouls2002. I absolutely loved playing him, we lived in different states though and different time zones as well and didn't have a way to contact each other besides the ingame chat. I miss playing with him..

Mineplex on mcpe used to be my favorite, I used to play skyfall all the time

Who is watching it after Mineplex is shut down? it's kinda sad. RIP Mineplex.

some of the earliest minecraft screensshot that i have saved for years hopping through different computers over time were of mineplex. its sad it see it go and fade away

There is a much lesser known version of this story that happened to the once largest plot creative server in Minecraft, Edawg878 The slowdown of 2016, combined with horrible administration that was extremely overzealous over moderation against anything that made them look bad or that they found even slightly offensive, combined with a rather weak back end that only got worse as they shifted into a hub server, resulted in the place crumbling down to just a shell of its former self

i really loved this server back then. specially the christmas and halloween events.

My heart fucking broke when i saw the thumbnail of this video. Anybody remember the coin party bombs? That shit was wild Edit: Just watched the video, I think the fundamental issue was also the moment they gave up on management issues and killed off many popular games, which was the final nail in the coffin, pissed off way too many people, and made it go from tens of thousands to only 1k average (at the time) in less than a week.

I loved playing on mineplex back in the day, survival games, the little wall gamemode, turf war, it had so many fun mini games. Sad to see that it’s gone this far downhill

Back in the day i used to play Turf Wars like everyday on mineplex, i was reminded of this a few days ago and decided to try to check it out again, but was surprised when literally no one was playing it. It was sad to see the state of the server compared to how it used to be.

I’ve just been binge watching by all your videos 🍿

I will forever hold onto the memories I’ve made with my friends on MP :)) miss u guys so much

I remember playing champions with my friends for hours on end, it looks like I won't be able to relive that anymore. Mineplex was my childhood and I miss it.

god the bandicam clip with the high pitched voice was so relatable, i still have some of my old dumb bandicam recordings of minecraft

i hope we can keep mineplex. for nostalgia yes. but also from the POV of a player, steep competition results in the best experience, don’t let hypixel start slackin keep them on their toes, keep them innovating

Let’s do everything we can as a community to save this server from fading into history!

It's so amazing to see so many servers doing cross-compatibility! Few years ago when the concept was shown I saw it as the first step to actual crossplay. Too see it become popular is so amazing to me

Great video, and I miss it a lot. Me and my friends were super active in the forums and stuff and I knew it was going downhill when constructive criticism started getting banned. The mods were super bad too, I am network banned from a long time ago for pretending to cheat and reporting myself on the forums 😆. Was a 24 hour ban but for me I got network banned for "forging evidence" (on myself). Ill never forget it and im thankful to have a lot of privated videos where I used to upload mineplex with my friends, because we'll never get something like that back again.

Idc what anyone says Death Tag was my absolute favorite Mineplex game I binged it

It's kinda of tragic how one popular server would end up like this..

I still remember playing turf wars all the time on Mineplex. I probably wasn't very good at, but I did win more than I lost. I personally choose to believe they have a chance at a comeback, and I hope for them to succeed, no matter how small that chance is. A server isn't really dead until it shuts down.

its sad how it fell off like this because I have great memories playing around in the servers hub parkour minigames and the other game modes

Mineplex's problem with management and messed up priorities killed the entire server Poor Chiss 😔i miss ausmc and nautilus clans is dead champions is dead every gamemode is dead without update and being neglected

After Losing the hive, the only idea of mineplex dying and disappear from java Is actually scaring me... i don't play mineplex, because i'm more of a pvp guy, and not a mini-games guy, but seeing what made history fall so deeply in ruins... idk man, but this looks like the fall of the Legacy, with Minecraft's attention span Also declining, idk if mineplex Will manage to save itself...

I use to be a massive mineplex clans player, basically the only game I played for many years. I started playing clans around 2015 at the end of beta and near the season 1 release, I was never that good of a pvper but was more of a builder. I kept playing on clans untill last year when season 6 part 2 came out, everything was normal until the season lasted more than six months, then eight months, then until now two years later there has been no talk of an upcoming map reset. It truly is sad to see the server I literally grew up on just up and die without the owners even putting any effort in trying to bring back old games or updating ones that we already have.

Wow. I remember having so much fun on memories on that server, so many memories. It’s sad to see the state Mineplex is in right now and I had no idea!

It's a shame what Mineplex has become, I didnt even know how dire the situation has become with only 300-400 players online. I really do hope that they can turn things around and be able to compete with hypixel again as competition is always a good thing for the consumer. I remember that the older mineplex video was how I first discovered your channel two years ago, its incredible to see how much the channel has grown!

I remember playing mineplex as one of the first servers when I got MC in 2013-14. Had no idea they had deathrun now which is was my favorite java hive gamemode. I might actually go online and check it out again to see if it hopefully queues. The only reason I would have to play mineplex on bedrock over other servers is their hypixel housing ripoff but I could just play hypixel for that :/

I can remember me playing Minecraft for the first time on my dads work computer and him finding Mineplex for me to play online. I vividly remember getting stuck on lilly pads when I didn't know how to change the version to be suitable. Good old days.