GunColony Minecraft Shooter

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Welcome to GunColony, Minecraft's #1 FPS Server.

Founded in 2015, we are the most popular gun server to focus on bringing a fully-featured First Person Shooter (FPS) experience to Minecraft.

Ever wanted to play Call of Duty in Minecraft, or shoot and survive waves of monsters in a sandbox arena? Then GunColony is for you!

We are also the only Minecraft server powered by a custom game engine. Our new Place engine will allow us to bring the GunColony experience beyond Minecraft and into to our future standalone game, allowing for free access in the browser and full cross-play with the existing Minecraft server. All of your account progress will carry over - get a head start on progression in our upcoming game by playing GunColony!

Mob-Arena

Survive waves of monsters in Mob-Arena, including custom mobs and bosses.

Pick your level of challenge with two difficulty options in each of our 28+ unique arenas. Defeat the final boss to win in Normal and Expert Mode, or fight off endless wave of mobs in the Endless Mode.

PVP

PVP - Fight against other players in classic Call of Duty gamemodes.

• Team Deathmatch
  
• Free For All
• Domination
• King of the Hill
  
• World War II Scenario Mode
• Mine-Spades: shoot, place, and destroy blocks for victory.
• Rare arcade modes: Juggernauts, One in the Chamber, and more
• Regular limited-time events - holiday maps, Ender Pearl mode, Elytra Fighter Jet mode, etc.

Competitive - Inspired by CS:GO. Fight in one-life modes with no sprinting, buy weapons with cash, and learn your grenade throws. Rank up on the leaderboards and prove yourself to be the best shot!

• Elimination
• Demolition
• Defusal
  
• Scenario Mode: play Defusal with weapon loadouts from CS1.6 and CS2!

History

It's very hard to create a fully-fledged and polished shooting system in Minecraft, but we have tried our best for five years to do just that.

2015
At launch, we were the first server in the world to feature 3D gun models (outside of modded servers).
We were also the first server to add dynamic spread to our guns depending on how quickly you shot them - Mine-Strike was a close second.

2016
We were the first server to add hitscan projectiles in Minecraft. Jectile would follow soon after with its own version.
We added recoil patterns a few months after Hypixel Cops and Crims, but our system was better and followed CS:GO recoil perfectly.

2017
We were the first to add a scope overlay using client-side hand held items that few gun servers have even today. This recreated the scope border of ACOG and Sniper scopes in then-popular FPS games.
We added a grenade bouncing algorithm that allowed for more precise throws than solutions used by other servers.

2018
We added a firemode system that allows guns to have semi-automatic, burst, and full-auto modes.
We added a feature that allowed for an arbitrary amount of zoom in sniper scopes independent to movement speed.
We introduced a modification system that allowed you to add attachments to weapons that change their in-game stats.

2019
We introduced a realistic sway and recoil system - a secret sauce behind our unprecedented FPS gameplay .
We added realistic sounds to our weapons, which follow the speed of sound and can be heard from hundreds of blocks away.

2020
We introduced dynamic crosshairs in hipfire, and realistically glowing reflex sight reticles. Both were previously thought to be impossible without mods.
We made our gun system async and run at a 120 Hz tickrate, making for the most responsive gunplay possible in Minecraft.

2021
We developed the first full staff building system in Minecraft. Community staff members can build and playtest maps with unprecedented ease.

2022
We introduced new staff building tools as well as support for Mob-Arena in the staff building system.
We began development of the Place engine, a revolutionary new game engine designed to support cross-play between our Minecraft server and future standalone game.

2023
We finished a multi-year rebalance of every weapon in the game, as well as new gameplay features like Hipfire Recoil.
We became a recipient of Epic MegaGrants 2023 to bring the GunColony experience to Fortnite UEFN.

2024
We applied the Place engine to the live GunColony server for the first time, powering gameplay features like block destruction and a web-based scoreboard. We also added our first Community Map, kickstarting our effort to encourage community contributions to the game.

2025
As we celebrate GunColony's 10th Anniversary, the Place Engine now powers important game features, Discord linking, and our website. We are working on the engine's mod support including a Kotlin runtime and Bukkit-like modding API, upon which both official and third-party mods will rely on. We aim to rewrite significant parts of GunColony's gameplay logic in the Place Engine by end of year and release an alpha version of our standalone game in 2026.

Today as a result of 10 years of innovation, GunColony is far ahead of our competition and the only place where you can find a complete FPS experience in vanilla Minecraft.

The Best Part? It's Free!

• The server requires the Java Edition of Minecraft. If you already own Minecraft, joining is completely free
• The server is updated at least monthly, if not more often. In the last three months there have been 13 updates, which is roughly once every week!
  
• There is no pay to win whatsoever. All ranks are cosmetic-only. We are a community working together to create the best Minecraft shooter in existence

Server Address: guncolony.com