I’ve recently been playing Minecraft SMPs a lot more than before.
SMP stands for “Survival Multiplayer”. It’s a type of Minecraft Servers where it is based around playing Minecraft survival mode together.
There are many types of SMPs but the ones I play the most I own and run on Exaroton. I try to keep people from fighting but my friends just keep fighting so it’s very hard. So that’s why I decided to turn on KeepInventory so that after we die the person that killed us can’t take our stuff. But the problem with that is that if you die from a natural cause like falling off a cliff or fighting a monster then you keep your stuff which is half considered cheating in the Minecraft Survival Community.
The other setting I changed in game rules is MobGriefing. The reason is because a lot of the members of my servers don’t fill up the creeper holes and also don’t keep the landscape clean.
Some SMPs are public where anyone can join with the IP address and usually griefing is not allowed and you can only build on your plot of land. There are also annoying plug-ins that let you teleport to anyone from anywhere.
Even though there are these annoying restrictions there are some servers with no rules. For example the popular Minecraft Survival Server 2b2t has nearly no rules. You can Hack, there are no chat restrictions and you can kill anyone. The only rule on this server is that you can’t cause a lot of lag and crash the server.
One of the most famous Minecraft SMPs out there is HermitCraft. They mostly focused on building and redstone. They are currently on Season 9. The SMP has been going on for more than 10 years. Some of the people from the MindCrack SMP joined HermitCraft as well. On average HermitCraft is inviting only one member every couple of years. It is a private whitelisted server and it’s extremely rare to be invited to join it. The members of HermitCraft are arguably the best Minecraft players and are very committed and enjoy playing vanilla(No mods, original and plain) Minecraft a lot.
I think the most important thing about SMPs are to keep the SMP in good condition and not abandon it. You need to think about what kind of an SMP it is and what kind of people should be in it. For example if it is based around war and fighting, you shouldn’t invite people that want to peacefully build and play the game. And if the SMP is based around building and having fun then you shouldn’t invite people that want to have wars and destroy what you have built. The hardest thing is to choose who should be in it. If you have the wrong people then it will never work out. And if you don’t have enough people then it was stay dull, grim and lifeless.