RIP Mineplex

I hadn't worked with Mineplex in many years, but it was one of the Minecraft servers I was most involved with in my time on YouTube so I figured I'd discuss.

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[andys]

I will forever miss this Mineplex server. RIP Mineplex 2013-2023.

[milan]

Mineplex was a place where I spent extreme amount of time, since like 2014-2015. R.I.P Mineplex

[SemiHypercube]

the most surprising thing was really that there wasn't even a proper sendoff for it. It literally was just that one day you couldn't connect to the servers anymore, and it disappeared from the Bedrock featured server list without any warning.

[eesh]

Moment of silence for the Giant Tree in spawn. It held endless memories of parkour, betrayel, and shenanigans. You will be missed <\3

[arthurmorgan]

Goodbye Mineplex.

Goodbye Mineplex community, there are so many of us it’s impossible to thank every single one. But thank you.

I played from 2014 to 2019, and I remember the 2015-2017 peak to this day, such a great time on the server.

I love you all. ❤ Take care, and I hope you Mineplex veterans will live a good life with many achievements.

I hate growing up.

[merry_ryan]

Rest In Peace, Mineplex. You were loved by many, and you didn't deserve to go out with a whimper.

[letseatvegemite]

Haven't played Minecraft like that in several years, but this really stings. Mineplex was my most played and favorite server when I was a kid. Some of my fondest memories with Minecraft were in Mineplex. RIP. Thank you for being a major part of my childhood.

[sadboy]

Dang, there goes 1, 900 hours of playtime and countless good memories. Knew it had to come eventually but it doesn't make it any less sad

[jimmy]

I know this is going to be buried, but I just wanted to say you were the first YouTuber I ever watched more than one video of jardon. My friend showed me your videos back in 2013-2014 about modded survival and whatever else you were doing that I’ve forgotten. I absolutely loved your hunger games videos and watched every single one of them. I remember you would always start with “in a world…” or something like that, and it made me super excited. Me and my friend used to call on our landlines, making our parents phone bill skyrocket 😂.
I eventually stopped playing mineplex and moved on to cubecraft eggwars, then hypixel skywars & bedwars, and now I mainly play hypixel skyblock. I also stopped watching your videos for a while. The I remembered about the troll craft videos with crainer and ssundee, and rewatched them all. Then I continued to watch ur new videos.

I know this isn’t much but it’s more a chance for me to say thank you so much for all the good times you gave me throughout the years. Thank you, and rip mineplex

[are_ari]

Ahh my childhood, played Mineplex when I was 12, now I'm 21 and it's gone, RIP Mineplex you will truly be missed by many. 💔

[improvementeachday]

Mineplex gave some of the most memorable memories, god were those times amazing, definitely one of the greatest servers to ever exist

[imshank]

I was part of the staff team of Mineplex for a short period of time in 2020 - 2021 and was a player on mineplex since 2014 this definitely stings to see it shutdown but there were numerous times where mineplex could have fixed itself and turned to the better but they failed every time. Eula situation deff was of the the first big obstacles that Mineplex faced at the time it was really difficult to gage and that is understandable, but even in recent times the owners of the server never involved them self to do anything with the community making the whole community in itself feel like they were only doing it for the money and didn't care about the player base or the server. Which I think was the biggest reasons for Mineplex's downfall, there are many other reasons which I wont get into but the staff team as wholesome as they seem from the outside, and efficient it looked, it was a whole diffrent story when you actual become staff. There were constant drama, fights and abuse of power going on within the staff team. Last thing I am going to touch upon is the lack of ideas... There was 0 new content they were creating at Mineplex it was the same 4 events they had every year with the same recycled maps and hoping for the best. They even got a saving grace on 2020 when there was a huge player surge because of COVID, but it wasn't a player surge that would last too long which turned into the demise of Mineplex. I am 100% going to miss Mineplex and all the memories that I have made on that server and all the people I have met on that server but this was a long time coming and I am surprised that it took this long for them to shut it down to be honest.

[ジョシュショート]

Goodbye Mineplex, you will always be in our hearts.

[wailingwolves]

I will never forget Mineplex. I used to play on it all the time in elementary school, and I won a rank via chest and made my siblings so jealous my mom had to buy ranks for both of them so they didn’t feel left out. I logged back into it like a year ago just to see how the server was doing, and I still have my rank, my pets, my morphs, my mounts, everything. Frozen in time. I’m a college student now, and seeing the server down knowing I’ll never get that back makes me sad. But it had an amazing run. RIP Mineplex, you guys were the OGs. o7

[chronosoul]

In the early years, the big 3 servers had their own big Minecraft content creator sponsor partner.
Mineplex had you, Jardon, CaptainSparklez, Hipixel had Tom, Syndicate, and The Hive had, Pat, PopularMMOs.

I found each server through each of their videos, and man were those good times, when they would each make their own competitively skilled based content around the mini games on the respective servers.

[merpqueen]

Man, tons of memories just came flooding back. Mineplex was the cornerstone of Minecraft before the Hypixel monopoly came around. It was a great time and a great server.

[Nik-]

"Dead people get more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude"

[goosapalooza]

I used to play this server so much and it was constantly full. I’m kinda shocked it’s shutting down :( RIP

[koreops]

I remember coming home after elementary school logging on to this wonderful server and playing Super Smash Mobs! Crazy to think I'm almost done with college now, man. It truly hurts me to see that it's shutting down, millions of memories over the years. I will forever miss this server and it will always hold a special place in my heart. RIP Mineplex :(

[dragonrykr]

Very true about the maintenance that a server requires. I used to own a Minecraft server of some 20-30 average players by the end of it, from 2012 to 2015. It was an amazing feeling, but very taxing. I could only do it while I was in junior high while my studies were not as demanding as they would later be. I still have videos from that server on my channel even though I haven't recorded anything in 8 years.

I often think about starting it all again, but the amount of plugin configuration, constant striving for perfection, more content, interactions with players, it can get overwhelming and draining. Not to mention the update procedure from version to version. My server died after updating from 1.7 to 1.8, due to it being a much bigger jump, lots of new things were added and it wasn't as simple to upgrade.

But at least memories remain. I even ended up writing a short book about all my doings back then, so that I can never forget it :)