How to Make an SMP (That Won’t Die)

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SMPs are extremely diffucult to make, and nearly impossible to do well. But what are some of the ways you can get started to make sure your SMP has a chance? How do you make an SMP that won't fail? Let's find out...

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This video is advice on how to create a good SMP. It’s just what i’ve learned over the years i’ve run SMPs. It's also good for if you're bored in Minecraft and just want to have fun, because this video is all about just making a fun SMP and is not entirely focused on the content side of it.

A few tags:

How to make a fun Minecraft server
What to do when you're bored in minecraft
Things to do in survival Minecraft

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Lupus Nocte - Time Attack (Downloaded without Vocals from Epidemic Sound)
Little Big Planet - The Orb of Dreamers
Rovio Retry - Neon nights
Ducktales - Money Bin
Break Fast
Pizza Tower - Pepperman Strikes
Netherverse Theme Song - @evilanvil
Rovio Retry - Love is Gonna Make Us Stronger
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McNatty - teaching me everything I know about SMPs
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Dr. G - My Epic English Teacher who edited this script
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0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Inactivity
1:48 - Concept
4:25 - Content
5:26 - Community
6:10 - Subscribe?
6:27 - Applications
7:17 - The End?
8:15 - End Screen

[avatardotpng]

I think you absolutely nailed it with this video. Activity, Concept, and Community are the biggest shortcomings of every smp ive seen

[DiamondDepthYT]

I just wanna say thank you very much for this. Some of the info you spoke about is stuff I never really thought about, but makes a lot of sense in hindsight!
The SMP I'm in has yet to hold applications, we've been an invite only SMP forever now. The SMP is over a year old now. I wouldn't say we're going strong, but we are very unique in that we're all responsible for the server. We all have our roles, we do what we can. We all trust each other, we hold polls to make sure everyone agrees, we have weekly meetings to keep everyone interacting.
And now I'm sorta taking on the role of community manager for our discord, in that I will be holding events to keep our community active.
We're a very small community, considering we're on Bedrock. But that's okay. We'll push through and make an impact.

[MooreGaming]

Good tips and pointers for future smp creators/owners! A big thing that also affects it is practice. You won't always make a great server first try, but experiment, learn different styles, figure out what the players/viewers actually like!

[TGMons]

This couldn’t have come up at a better time I’m just trying to start an SMP right now this is really helpful because I’m struggling to get people to join

[Dark-Davey]

I have a realm on Bedrock that has technically been running for over a year. It has a long, rich, troubled, and joyous history. The first four months, from June 8 to December 1st 2022, were what I'd consider the Golden Age of the realm. In December one of my two admins left, leaving a huge gap. So I decided to close the realm for a while. Then in May of this year, I got it back up and it became active again. On the one year anniversary of the realm, the player count peaked for the first time ever, and it was an amazing event. In the months since then, it's had a few new people come and go, but I still have a couple people that have been there since day one. I never expected it to last as long as it has, and what blows me away is, it's the only realm I've ever ran that didn't die in the first two months. And the best part is, it's still going, albeit a bit slowly as members are experiencing real life at this time. Despite that I'm keeping it up for them to join at their convenience. It's a very small community, and we all trust each other, so griefers and thieves have never been an issue. I am so grateful and blessed to have the community I do, and it goes to show that amazing things can happen even when you're not expecting it

[kartolul]

This video is super well made! I hope it gets more views, you really deserve a lot of recognition

[RyantheGamer]

Great advice! My friends and I have created a SMP together and started earlier this year and we’re still going strong. I have been creating videos on it throughout the months starting in April to show off my building skills and other things and I hope other people will be able to watch and see how good the series actually is. I am hoping that the more I make videos the more that I will gain and build on my channel.

[MVSteven.]

8:03 - Netherverse tells you to give up

[biffy_tk]

It's time for ICan'tThinkOfAName SMP to shine

[superpixel_]

I love this video! thank you so much!! you deserve more views and subs!

[theauthor]

Great vid, always wanted to start one of these but never got the chance or the time to put in it. Might send it to a friend though.

[OmegaKatana]

Great video - has inspired me to try and fix my smp

[Luminous_Tater]

LOVE THIS VIDEO, im in the middle of making a heavily modded mc smp, Im gonna take your advice and really give it my all for this!!!!

[enderform]

Honestly, I think all you need to build a strong SMP is just to get a good group of friends, a few mods if you want, and a great community. I just started up a small one with just three people on my own PC, and it’s honestly great.

[TimeForTechMinecraft]

Me and an online friend are making a smp rn I hope all this info helps us.

[shortsrandom]

In my community Spanish community in 2020 there was an smp that was like the lifesteal smp for us the server was called permadeath smp a hardcore Minecraft server were every 10 days for 110 days the game would get harder and harder until it was imposible to play now if there is a new smp most likely it is going to be with that concept

[Limenadesfishing_log]

I will make a server, also thank you because this will be a fun server (it’s only open in the summer and called summer vacation SMP it hasent been made yet tho)

[gabmar]

happy to be your 1000'th veiw on this vid (was watching from youtube home page and saw 999 so I clicked and it says 1k) this video is really well made and you deserve more

[inkbright_]

a big issue with the SMP i was in is that no one else was trying to make good content, i was the only one who inputted the most into my videos, which is why my videos are the only one's up about the server, for other people there was nothing going on in the videos, and not surprisingly it got shut down less than a month of it's creation

[Mongcal-bD]

I love you video btw you inspired me to continue it.