EarthMC:About EarthMC

Welcome to EarthMC, a geopolitical sandbox server for Minecraft Java Edition. Create a town, join a nation and explore the custom earth map with your friends. The current map is Terra Nostra.

• Unique players: Over 1.3 million
• Online since: 2016 (10 years)
• Server version: 1.21.11
• Wiki articles: Over 2700
• Map scale: 1:300
• Total playtime: ~590 years

Why you might like it here

• The community - Community is ranked as the most liked aspect of EarthMC according to player surveys.
• The original - EarthMC is the first and largest Minecraft earth server.
• The map - Highly detailed and custom made earth map.
• Longevity - EarthMC has been around since 2016. We're in it for the long run. We run the same map for years. There has been a total of three map resets, one in 2018, one in 2022 and the last one in 2026. The oldest map 'Classic' and the map 'Nova' are both still downloadable by players.
• Server economy - Minecraft gold ingots are used as currency. The economy is inflation resistant with gold taken out of the economy at a similar rate of gold entering the economy. The economy is run by players, there are no admin shops.
• Expensive history - The rich history of the server is being constantly recorded on the wiki.
• Fair monetization - EarthMC is funded through Premium, a rank that gives players convenient features and cosmetics. It is however not possible to buy progress.
• Easy to get started, difficult to master.

Honest list of drawbacks

• The server is hosted in Europe. Players on other continents will experience high latency.
• The map can become static in popular areas of the map. It will be difficult to claim land at these locations.
• There are no "traditional" wars. It's unsustainable tying gameplay progress to PVP, as it's easy to gain unfair pvp leverage through cheat clients. This is why there isn't a war feature already. Conflicts are usually settled through diplomacy. A war system might be introduced in the future.
• Server TPS might be under desired value (20) for extended periods of time. Hundreds of players are spread out on a huge area on one server instance resulting in degraded performance. We have introduced several custom server-made patches to accommodate for this, but sometimes it's not enough.
• Cannot be joined on Minecraft bedrock edition.