
On the 17th of August 2010, the Lightstone project was started by Graham Edgecombe. Another wrapper that had existed from the 11th of August 2010 was MCAdmin by Doridian. Server wrappers in this form did not last too long, as they were quickly made redundant by the existence of plugins. Afterwards, many others created continuation projects. The earliest wrapper still available on the internet was Czahrien’s wrapper from early August 2010. The wrappers would then send console commands based on what it saw, such as giving the player a few items for kits or sending the player a rules message. Server Wrappersīefore plugins were around to handle kits and rules messages, a few projects popped up that wrapped the Minecraft server and listened for various lines of text in the chat. LlamaGrief was a jar mod, installed by copying the modified game files into the minecraft_server.jar file and deleting the Java metadata folder ( META-INF). Unlike today, this was not a plugin that could be installed simply to the server. It allowed server administrators to prevent common grief tactics such as starting fires, spamming lava, or spamming bedrock (known as adminium at the time).
#CALL ICONOMY IN PLUGIN MOD#
Two days after multiplayer launched, on the 6th of August 2010, a mod by the name of LlamaGrief was released by SuperLlama. As of writing, MinecraftOnline is running Canary on Minecraft 1.7.10. Due to this, it is the longest-running server for what we now know as Minecraft Java Edition. While not technically the oldest server still running, due to NerdNu existing during the Minecraft Classic era, MinecraftOnline launched on modern Minecraft before NerdNu did. After two days of private testing, the server released on the 6th of August 2010. On the same day, a group of people created a server by the name of MinecraftOnline. This release was the start of Minecraft multiplayer as we know it today.
#CALL ICONOMY IN PLUGIN SOFTWARE#
While 1.0.15 released on the 3rd of August 2010, it wasn’t until one day later on the 4th of August that the server software was released. Minecraft Alpha 1.0.15 was the first version of what is now known as Minecraft Java Edition to have support for multiplayer.

2010 - The Early Days Survival Multiplayer Releases To this day, the WikiVG project is the go-to place for technical information about Minecraft. The IRC channel also underwent a migration to Freenode at a similar time. The wiki migrated to the domain where it then resided on the 24th of October 2010. Initially launched at an unknown time in 2009 at the URL, with an effort to document the game’s protocol started shortly after. Thus, wiki.vg and the #mcdevs IRC channel were born. With a growing interest in Minecraft server modding, a few community members started a project to document the technical aspects of the game. Therefore, this is the oldest Minecraft server to be still running. NerdNu, known historically for c.nerd.nu and s.nerd.nu, first started on the 10th of June 2009. Out of everything that happened during the Minecraft Classic era, one notable server launched that is still online to this day. Survival mode was also not yet in the game. Minecraft was very different at this time, being a small in-browser game with a small following. Minecraft Classic had a version of multiplayer that was released back in 2009, on the 7th of June.

Minecraft wouldn’t be where it is today without the version that came before what we know today.

If you find something that you can verify is incorrect, please contact me. As with anything historical, it is always possible not to be entirely accurate. Also, while we’ve tried our hardest to make sure these dates are accurate and cited. If there is anything we have missed that you feel substantially impacted the survival multiplayer ecosystem, please contact me.
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I, as well as many other community members, have been tirelessly creating a comprehensive history of the Survival Multiplayer community.īefore I begin, this is a living document built to archive and share the first decade of Minecraft multiplayer with the next generation of players. As of today, August 4th 2020, Minecraft Java Edition has had survival multiplayer for a decade.
