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In 2020 MrBeast raided Minecraft servers with 10,000 fans. Six years later one of those servers — Simpcraft — is still online. This is the full source trail: a thirteen-question interview with the admin who runs it, six years of his own Discord posts, the community's own museum of its history, and the live server itself. Everything below is organised by how strong the source is. Where a claim rests only on the community's account of itself, it's marked as such.
Server at a glance
The core idea
The easy version of this story is that a corporation left a bill on autopay and nobody noticed. That version is wrong, and the primary source says so directly. The hardware and the domains were always Plutoren's — the admin who built Simpcraft for the raid video and has run it ever since on his own machines. MrBeast revisited a week after filming, told the players the server would stay up, and Plutoren treated fulfilling that promise as part of his job. He then kept treating it that way for six years, through moves, dupes, resets, and a full engine rebuild.
"After 6 years of MrBeast abandoning it… it's clearly 100% my server."
What makes the story stranger is that the strongest witness and the community disagree about their own history. Plutoren has never heard of the "Colo War" the museum treats as a defining event, and doesn't remember running the 2021 reset poll his own Discord shows him posting. The video presents both without resolving it — and so does this page.
1 · Primary source
Plutoren built Simpcraft for MrBeast's 2020 raid video and has run it ever since. He answered thirteen questions for this video over Discord in August 2026. The screenshots below are his unedited answers; the full text is being published separately by the Simpcraft community.
MrBeast Gaming had no dedicated servers at filming — theirs ran on shared hosting. Plutoren was already running his own hardware for his server SnapMC and offered it. The server has always run on his hardware and his domain. simpcraft.com was a domain he'd bought for a friend who abandoned a server project after ~two weeks. His verdict after six years: "100% my server."
He learned MrBeast was returning from players involved in filming. A former MrBeast admin offered a one-time payment to cover the expected rush; he spent all of it on the server, then rebuilt on Folia 26.2 with a proxy, lobby and queue. Players built the lobby in under a week.
World ~5 TB on two NVMe drives; it reached ~16 TB before a chunk trim cut it to 4 TB. Cost: just under $5,000 for 2026; just over $7,000 already paid for 2027. His framing: "ask a golfer or a TCG fan how much they spend in a year."
He does not know what the Colo War is, and does not remember running the December 2021 reset poll — both of which the community and his own Discord treat as real. Presented unresolved.
2 · Primary source
From the #announcements and #change-log channels of the official Simpcraft Discord. All dated, all posted by the server's admin.
| Date | What it shows |
|---|---|
| 9 Aug 2020 | /spawn offered as a reward if players plant 200,000 trees |
| 12 Aug 2020 | Community poll — includes "add a queue like 2b2t for when the server is maxed out" and a question about paid ranks, noting monetisation would need clearing with the MrBeast team |
| 17 Aug 2020 | "This is not an official MrBeast project, I am just running this server for fun in my free time… I'd like to keep it running" |
| 18 Aug 2020 | Entity cramming set to 4000 for the raid event; vanilla Minecraft uses 24 |
| 19 Aug 2020 | View distance at 2; fluid flow paused when TPS drops |
| 20 Aug / 1 Sep 2020 | Voting added to help the server "grow, or at least die slower" |
| 23 Dec 2020 | First major dupe. Chest rollbacks for abusers, no bans — "in the spirit of anarchy" |
| 3 May 2021 | Server moved to a new machine — his own ran out of disk space |
| 27 May 2021 | Moved again after power issues; new machine has 4TB |
| 10 Oct 2021 | Updated to 1.17.1; world border raised to 100k |
| 23 Dec 2021 | Community poll on wiping the server and starting over |
| 4 Apr 2022 | 1.18.2 with no reset; community pyramid challenge announced |
| 26 Mar 2023 | 1.19.4 |
| 3 May 2023 | World border increased to 400k in the overworld |
| 5 Sep 2023 | 1.20.1 |
| 31 Jul 2024 | 1.21 |
| Aug 2024 / Mar 2025 | Mace nerf polls — voted down, then voted up; both outcomes implemented |
| 28 Dec 2024 | Storage post: 6 drives, 21.6TB capacity, 14.4TB used, weekly backups |
| 31 Dec 2024 | Server MOTD: "True anarchy, minus the hate" |
| 30 Jul 2026 | "I intend to update the server to 26.2 in the next week or two, if it's at all even possible currently" |
| 31 Jul 2026 | Update brought forward to that Friday |
| 1 Aug 2026 | Folia 26.2; new lobby server and queue; four players credited for building the map |
| 2 Aug 2026 | "I won't be working on og queue for a few days… I'm a little burnt out" |
| 3 Aug 2026 | Veteran queue implemented; Patreon planned with no in-game benefits |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Spawn RTP radius changed repeatedly as new players kept arriving |
Note: the 28 Dec 2024 post refers to total drive capacity, not world size. Plutoren clarified in interview that the world itself is around 5TB.
3 · The community's own account
Built by players in the server's lobby in late July 2026. This is the community's account of its own history — attributed as such in the video, not treated as primary fact.
Created 28 July 2020 for the raid video; the team returned about a week later and decided to keep it online.
TheBeastMC Builders founded Spawn2.0 and asked for spawn protection; a group called R.O.B. (Revolt On Builder) declared war; the monument was destroyed and the builders retreated to Builders Base.
Team Trees vs Team No Trees; 200,000 trees planted; the reward was never added, to avoid further conflict.
An 18-hour book dupe; factions The Balance and Team Brazil exploited it; some players quit over the economy.
SHG founded to maintain Nether 0,0; Team Goose; the server's first sky art; and Colo, a monument surrounding MrBeast's original bedrock block, protected and rebuilt by the SPA (Spawn Protection Association).
Deku___ repeatedly attacked Colo; the SPA used a Discord bot to ping defenders when he logged on; he returned with a team, destroyed Colo and Coral Cliffs, and was revealed as Jxfitz; activity dropped afterwards. Plutoren says he has never heard of this.
Players voted no; the closest the community came to losing everything.
Founded by brothers Ironspider1515 and MushySwarls; recruited new players with full gear rather than killing them; later joined by Mightyhulk01 and AvengerSpencer; built Fulcrum 2.
Founded by DylanSkin; exploited a poorly-coded /vote feature to glitch items into inventories.
zorz_ contacted FitMC in February 2023 and invited him to the server; Fit's video followed and, per the museum, passed 8 million views.
Announced April 2022 as a community challenge; motivation lagged; six months to place the final block; Plutoren placed bedrock at the summit and zorz_ chose the community prize.
A separate gallery room in the lobby frames the server's landmark builds: The Colosseum, The Water Cube Spawn, Balance End Spawn, Balance Pyramid, Brazil, and others. Where the museum and Plutoren disagree — the museum treats the Colo War as a major event; Plutoren says he has never heard of it. The video presents both without resolving it.
4 · In-game & live server data
Confirmed in-game: Minecraft 26.2, Folia with a Velocity proxy. The rules board bans harassment, racism, excessive toxicity, doxxing, harmful links, and selling in-game items for real money (permanent ban); it also restricts automated base-hunting and mapping.
5 · External sources
MrBeast Gaming, 8 August 2020 — the origin video.
Fan-wiki record for the 2020 raid video.
Contemporaneous reporting, incl. fans still building on the servers a week after filming.
MrBeast Gaming, August 2026 — the return video.
Post from MrBeast about the return.
The 2023 video credited with bringing the server back to life.
First-hand video from a player during the return.
yhvr's blog post on visiting the server.
"1000 People Simulate Civilization" world, preserved by third parties.
Credit
Plutoren — for answering thirteen questions, unpaid, during the busiest week the server has ever had. zorz_, AvengerSpencer, Mightyhulk01 and Sodapop107 — who built the Simpcraft lobby in under a week. The museum builders and historians, and everyone maintaining simpcraft.wiki. And FitMC, whose 2023 video brought the server back to life.
PlutorenAdmin — built & runs the server
zorz_Invited FitMC · lobby build
AvengerSpencerLobby build
Mightyhulk01Lobby build · The Balance
Sodapop107Lobby build