Someone probably backdoored your server, it is not hard to backdoor a server.

Shame you feel this way :( we just recently started a survival + redstone server with a good set of plug-ins to protect from trolls and hackers. (+ a great dev managing it all).

In just a few days we built a small but fun (and well-behaving) player base ^_^ if you're interested in joining us I'd like to invite you to come play with us instead!

That is so true and so relatable. You'll spend hours and days working on something and then when it's finally ready to go to publish it and nobody gives a f***. #feelsbadman

I've been looking for a survival server that doesn't nerf mob spawns. I'd definately play online if it was actually survival and not just 2 hostile mobs if that per night... ;-;

Calm down. Maybe people just aren't interested in the type of server you're making, and would genuinely rather play on Hypixel. You can't expect people to come to your server just because it exists. People play on servers because it's fun, not out of goodwill. Maybe you're trying your best, but if your server isn't keeping people entertained or doesn't look attractive, they're not going to come. Also, complaining about it isn't going to get your server any players either.

Also, I think you might just be focusing on the wrong thing. You don't need a huge server to have fun, and having fun is the point of Minecraft, right? I used to play on a small SMP, it got maybe 6 players a day, and not a lot of new players, and it eventually went down. But it was still fun, and for a while was one of my favorite servers, even over bigger servers that I used to go to. My point is, you don't need to be hypixel or mineplex to keep players, and you don't need to keep players forever to have fun.

Minecraft SMP isn't going to die. Even if Mojang and Miscrosoft were to stop developing the game the SMP and modding community will continue to develop and adapt the game as we always have. The retro style of the game appeals to a large cross-section of ages and while children grow into and out of the game those of us who have always played it as adults aren't going to just forget about it. From my own experience running a server I hate to see someone essentially rage-quit their own server but if you have no desire to play your own server without other people there to make it interesting then you have to ask yourself what would make others want to? The servers out there that have custom mods and minigames have them specifically to set themselves aside from other servers and unless you're offering something unique or filling a niche then what sets your server apart from the rest of the crowd?


In the 9 years I've been playing this game I have never experienced a hack or griefing of a server that wasn't caused by personal negligence. 'Those fancy protection plugins,' as you call them, are actually very effective at protecting worlds as long as you cross all your Ts and dot all your Is. There are a lot to cover when protecting your server and sometimes what exposes you isn't the protection plugin itself but another plugin you hadn't even thought of digging through. I had one 'hacker' who was able to op himself and execute console commands due to an overlooked true/false setting through bungeecord and I've had numerous instances of people using commands like /kill because essentials and bukkit both gave aliases to commands that I didn't use or know to blacklist. These weren't hackers, they were simply players using an exploit that I had created by not completely understanding the interplay of the plugins. Hacking your own server should be a part of the update process both to determine the effectiveness of clients and to determine acceptable violation levels for events so normal gameplay isn't effected by anti-cheat plugins. The fact you can't look at your console logs and know exactly how, when and who griefed your spawn tells me you either missed something big or didn't look very hard.


You are correct that most public SMP servers are filled with children and they represent a large portion of the online community but that's just because adults prefer the stability and controlled atmosphere of whitelisted servers that are often aimed at players 18+ or 21+. Sure, I could play a public server (I played a public semi-vanilla SMP server for 6 years) but if that server is full of children littering chat with nonsense and doesn't offer a unique experience why would I? There is no shortage of whitelisted servers that are looking for new players and likely offer an experience you'd enjoy. Maybe the solution to your stress would be to open or play a whitelisted server rather than staying in the realm of public servers. At least when you have a new player on a private server you know they spent the time and effort to get whitelisted which really cuts down on the 'can I be staff?' nonsense.