Emberfall SMP

What Emberfall is

Emberfall is a semi-vanilla survival multiplayer world that has been running on the same map since early 2024. No world resets, no seasons, no fresh start every eight weeks. The spawn city, the rail network and the ugly cobblestone tower somebody built on day three are all still there, and that continuity is the entire point.

The server runs Paper with a light plugin set: land claims, grave keeping, a chest shop economy and a dimension-wide live map. Terrain generation, mob behaviour and redstone are untouched, so anything you learn here transfers straight back to single player.

What makes it different

• Whitelist with a real application. A short form plus a quick voice chat with a moderator. It takes a day or two and it is why the griefing log is basically empty.
• A player-run economy. There is no server shop and no admin-spawned diamonds. Prices for elytra, shulkers and netherite are set by the people who farm them.
• Build events every month. A themed district gets planned in Discord, plots are handed out, and the winning builds stay on the map permanently.
• Nothing sold that affects gameplay. Cosmetic tags and a coloured name in chat are the entire store.

The rules

1. No griefing, no stealing from claimed chests, no lava casting.
2. Ask before building within 200 blocks of somebody else's base.
3. Client-side mods are fine — minimaps, shaders, Litematica in view-only mode. Auto-clickers, x-ray and fly are instant bans.
4. Farms that tick more than a few thousand entities get asked to redesign. Server performance is a shared resource.
5. English in global chat so moderation can actually read it.

How to connect

Apply on the website, wait for the whitelist confirmation in Discord, then add play.emberfall.net on port 25565 in your Java multiplayer list. Bedrock players join through the Geyser bridge on the same address. If the world looks empty on first join, walk out of spawn — the active districts are a two-minute rail ride north.