The Other SMP

A survival server built around community, exploration, and shared progression.

Welcome to the server!

We're a friendly SMP server here to vibe, have fun, and build together. We hope you enjoy.

The Other SMP is more than just survival — it's a living world shaped by its players. Feed The Core to earn server-wide buffs and push the world border further out. Build and manage Towns to claim land and grow with friends. Climb daily task boards, trade Essence with the community, and set up player warps for others to visit.

Whether you're a builder, a trader, or just along for the adventure, you'll always find something worth doing.

The Core

Feed materials into the Core to charge it up. As more players pitch in, the Core's energy builds toward a critical point — and when it hits full capacity, it triggers a surge.

During a surge, all online players receive a temporary boost: faster mining, health regeneration, improved tool efficiency. Once the surge ends, the Core resets and is ready to be charged again.

Every surge also expands the world border. The more the community charges the Core, the more of the world opens up to explore.

Work together, and be rewarded.

Gameplay Tweaks

Natural Paths

Walk enough over grass and it naturally degrades — first to dirt, then coarse dirt, then a dirt path. Your world tells the story of where you've been.

Instant Plant Harvesting

Right-click a fully grown plant to instantly harvest and replant it. Yields 1–3 items with an increased chance of multiple drops.

Double Door Sync

Double doors open and close simultaneously — manually or via redstone. No more awkward half-open doors.

Button Container Sorting

Press a button to automatically sort all chest-like containers within a 1-block radius.

Item Finder

Use /finditem to search nearby containers. Or shift-right-click any item in your inventory to find matching items in nearby chests.

Heads Menu

Access over 32,000 decorative player heads via /heads. Exchange a bone for the head of your choice.

Fast Minecarts

Minecarts carrying passengers travel at twice the normal speed, making rail travel a genuinely viable option for long distances.

Death Graves

When you die, a grave spawns at the exact location of your death containing all your items. Only you can open your own grave, so your belongings are safe until you return.

Each grave displays a hologram above it showing your name and the time of death, making it easy to locate when you come back to retrieve your items. Retrieval is free — just walk up and open it.

Graves expire after 7 days. If a grave isn't collected within that window, the items drop to the ground at the grave's location.

Voice Chat

No mods are required to play on the server. Everything works out of the box with a vanilla Minecraft client.

That said, we strongly recommend installing the Simple Voice Chat mod. It adds proximity-based voice chat — only nearby players can hear you, and volume fades naturally with distance. It makes the server feel a lot more alive, especially when building with friends or stumbling across someone in the wild.

We've put together a recommended Modrinth modpack with Simple Voice Chat and a handful of nice optimisation client mods. Install it in minutes and connect as normal — the server handles the rest.

If you're using the mod and would rather not hear a specific player, you can silence them for yourself without affecting anyone else.

Discord

Our Discord is the main hub for the community — it's where updates drop, players chat, bugs get reported, and decisions happen. If you're playing on the server, you should be in the Discord.

You'll find channels for general chat, server announcements, trading, and more. It's the fastest way to get help, stay in the loop, and connect with everyone else on the server.

Live Map

The server runs a live 3D map of the world, updated in real time. Explore the terrain, find player builds, scout out towns, and get your bearings before you set off.

The map shows player positions, town boundaries, and the full overworld layout in real time. Useful for planning your next build, scouting out towns, or just seeing how far the world has grown.

Towny

Claim and protect your land by joining or founding a Town. Towns pool resources, grow their borders as more residents join, and can unite with other towns under a Nation.

Towns have a daily upkeep drawn from the town bank — keep it funded or risk losing your claims. As your town grows in residents, it levels up and unlocks new titles for its mayor.

Managing your town is straightforward — use /tm to open the town menu, /nm for the nation menu, and /plm for your plot menu. Everything you need is a click away.

Daily Tasks

A fresh set of tasks is generated every day at midnight. Complete them to earn XP and Essence — and if you finish all of them, your achievement is announced to the whole server.

Tasks cover a range of activities — gathering, crafting, hunting, exploring — so there's always something relevant to what you're already doing.

Town Tasks

Towns have their own set of daily tasks, completed collectively by all residents. Rewards are paid directly into the town bank — a great way to cover upkeep without anyone needing to manually deposit.

When all town tasks are completed, an announcement is broadcast to the server.

Player Warps

Create a personal warp point that any player on the server can visit. Point it at your base, your shop, or anywhere worth sharing.

Every visit costs the user a small Essence fee — which goes directly to you. A passive way to earn from a popular location.

Bounty Board

The Bounty Board lets players post item-want listings — request specific items from the community and offer Essence in return. The Essence you offer is set aside when you post a listing, so whoever fills it is always paid — and you get it back if nobody does.

A small listing fee applies when posting a bounty.

Seasonal Events

From time to time, the server runs special events that give everyone a boost while they're active. Each event is different — but they all make the usual things you do a bit more rewarding.

Some events also include a server-wide challenge — a shared goal that everyone works toward together. Your progress is shown on screen while the event is running. When the goal is reached, every player who pitched in gets an Essence reward, even if they're not online at the time.

Essence

Essence is the server's currency, earned through gameplay and spent on features like town creation, plot claiming, warp usage, and more.

Send Essence to other players to trade, tip, or pay for services.

Essence Lottery

Each week, a lottery draw takes place at Sunday noon. Players can buy tickets beforehand, and one ticket is drawn at random — the holder wins the entire pot.

Tickets cost 50 Essence each, with a maximum of 5 tickets per player per draw. You don't need to be online when the draw happens — if your ticket wins, the Essence is added to your balance automatically.

If no tickets have been purchased, no draw is held that week.

Custom Items

Sickle

Harvest crops in a radius with one click. Gold cuts fastest and widest. Wood and stone? Not so much.

File

Adjust connections between fences, walls, stairs, and panes. Precision shaping, one click at a time.

Trowel

Places a random block from your hotbar — great for mixing textures. Shift-right-click in your inventory to change the source.

North Compass

Always points north. Simple, reliable, and bound to the world it was crafted in.

Slime Bucket

Carry a tiny slime around — it wiggles when you're in a slime chunk. Deploy it or use it as a slimeball.

Pouch

A compact early-game container. Open from your hand or drop items in with a right-click.

Backpack

Bigger than a pouch, handier than a chest — just don't try placing it down.

XP Bottles

Store your experience in bottle form. Some XP is lost in the process, but you can carry it and use it later.

Netherite Elytra

Combines elytra flight with netherite armor toughness. Soar with style and safety.

Ancient Tome

Found in old ruins and dungeon chests. Unlocks powerful custom enchantments.

Ancient Tome of Knowledge

A crafted upgrade to the basic tome. Essential for mid-tier enchantments.

Ancient Tome of the Gods

Rare. Powerful. Combine two enchanted books to craft this and unlock legendary enchantments.

Custom Enchantments

Wings I–IV

Sneak mid-flight to get a burst of speed. Higher levels increase boost strength and control.

Angel I–V

The pinnacle of elytra enchantments. Sneak while flying to soar faster than ever.

Grappling Hook I–III

Reel yourself forward with a fishing rod. Higher levels reduce cooldown and increase range.

Hells Bent I

Protects you from elytra crash damage. No more faceplanting into cliff faces.

Leafchopper I

Cuts through leaves instantly with an axe, dropping the same loot as natural decay.

Seeding I–IV

Right-click crops with a hoe to auto-plant nearby farmland. More levels expand the radius.

Rake I–IV

Till dirt into farmland in a circle with a single click. Works like Seeding, but for tilling.

Soulbound I

Keeps your item on death and prevents accidental drops. Requires a Curse of Binding book from a villager.

Takeoff I–III

Launch into elytra flight directly from the ground. Sneak to launch without a speed boost.

Unbreakable I

The ultimate enchantment. Your item no longer takes durability damage.

Be Yourself

We're an inclusive and supportive community — everyone is welcome here. Make the server your own: set a nickname so people know what to call you, and set your pronouns so they know how to address you. Your pronouns will show beneath your name in the world and in the info panel when someone hovers your name in chat.

Ranks

Progression is earned through time and dedication. The longer you play, the more you unlock — no paywalls, just playtime.

Nomad

Everyone starts here. A fresh face in the wild.

• Basic commands
• Access to /nick
• Land claiming via Towny
• 2 home locations

Settler

You've put down roots and started building your place in the world.

• Access to /hat
• Access to /heads
• List 2 bounty requests
• 3 home locations

Dweller

No stranger to the land — a master of your surroundings.

• Access to /craft
• Access to /condense
• 4 home locations

Resident

A trusted, established player and valued member of the community.

• List 5 bounty requests
• 5 home locations

Relic

A legend — time-tested and respected. A symbol of perseverance on the server.

• Access to /enderchest
• List 10 bounty requests
• 6 home locations

Staff

A helper keeping the world fair and fun, with only the tools needed to moderate — no spawning items.

• Moderation tools
• Warp management
• Cool player tag

Donation ranks may become available in the future, but will only offer cosmetics. No pay-to-win.

Bug Hunt

While we strive for perfection, even the best worlds have a few cracks. If you find a bug or glitch, let us know — we appreciate it.

Players who report real, reproducible bugs may receive a reward as thanks. Use common sense: exploiting bugs will result in punishment, not prizes.

Help us make the server better for everyone.