Minehut

Overview

Minehut is a Minecraft server network where users can have endless fun playing with the Minehut community, experience new play styles across the servers, or let their creativity show by crafting their own server for others to play and enjoy!

Minehut was founded on November 28th, 2014 originally as a PvP server by Luuke known as Warzone before releasing its server host feature on January 23, 2015. Server hosting originally began as a prototype and there was little to no plugin support. Each server was known as "kingdoms" and PvP was still a prime focus of the Network until being acquired by Super League Enterprise in July 2018. Minehut was then acquired by GamerSafer, in February 2024.

Minehut has hosted over 11 million Minecraft servers and over 7 million Minehut users. Minehut reached its all-time highest player count on February 20th, 2021, with over 30,000 players online.

You can join the Minehut server using the IP minehut.com or bedrock.minehut.com if you are using Bedrock.

Vintage Minehut (Luuke)

November 28th, 2014 to July 17th, 2018

2014

Prior to creating Minehut, Luuke had ran a server called Snicktrix Towny, a towny server. This server is not what Minehut used to be, instead being a separate server, however a lot of the players from this towny server would follow Luuke to Minehut.

On November 28th, 2014, Luuke released Minehut. At this time, it was not a server host, but rather a PvP gamemode known as Warzone, a team-oriented PvP server. Minehut's original website, hosted on Enjin, was launched for the first time on December 6th, 2014.

2015

On January 23rd 2015, Minehut released server hosting for the very first time, originally named "Kingdoms" instead of servers. Users could create their own Minecraft server through an in-game GUI, which unfortunately had very limited plugin support and features. From the lobby, they could use the commands /kingdoms create, /kingdoms join and /kingdoms reset. Plugins were not enabled initially. On April 21st, Minehut switched to using XenForo forums. In Summer of 2015, Luuke began college and shut down Minehut as it was high maintenance, but he wanted to stay in server hosting and continue the project.

At the end of summer and early autumn of 2015, Luuke released prohost.gs, which wasn't Minehut, but was still a server host that was panel only (no in-game lobby) and served as a traditional server host. Luuke missed playing Warzone, so he released mcwar.us as a server on the new aforementioned server hosting platform. Later in 2015, as prohost.gs (Prohost) was custom coded, it had a ton of security flaws and had a big data leak. This led to it being shutdown and mcwar.us (Warzone) became a permanent server. The community of the server host fully migrates to mcwar.us (Warzone) at this time.

At the end of 2015, Luuke starts mchost.co which was a continuation of the original Minehut, returning to in-game server hosting with a lobby. This is where the current MongoDB database of Minehut began tracking for things such as join dates.

2016

Early in 2016, Luuke had two separate servers running: mchost.co (Minehut) & mcwar.us (Warzone) and decided he wanted to unify the two servers and merge them into stormnet.io, however, later that year, Luuke would decide to change the name of the network to just Minehut Network because he disliked the name stormnet.io.

On October 28th, 2016, Luuke would introduce the lifetime VIP & PRO ranks. They would have cosmetics like /ely and they were designed to show a player's support to Minehut. Luuke also promised that these ranks would allow the user to gain access to team selection on Warzone. If you had a premium server plan active during this change, you received a free lifetime rank. VIP rank was given to tiers 1 & 2, PRO rank was given to tiers 3 & 4.

On November 9th, 2016, Luuke released a patch that supported Minecraft 1.10.2 on Minehut. On November 18th, a new patch was released supporting Minecraft 1.11 on Minehut. This patch dropped support for Minecraft 1.10 as Luuke wanted Minehut to run exclusively on newer versions. On November 27th, Luuke introduced the lifetime Legend rank. This rank originally did not have any extra perks compared to VIP or PRO. The very first person to purchase the Legend rank was Faacto, who would eventually become a Minehut staff member. On December 24th, 2016, Minehut would update to Minecraft 1.11.2 network-wide.

2017

On January 2nd, 2017, Minehut would hit a new concurrent player record of 800 players. On January 11th, Minehut would receive a website update. On January 13th, notifications were introduced, featured servers and friends were reintroduced to the Minehut lobby. On February 12th, Minehut would break their concurrent player record once again, this time with 930 players. To celebrate this, Minehut gave away the Pro rank on their twitter account.

On April 30th, Minehut would add a brand new tier 5. This would come with many new cosmetics and gadgets, being the first time Minehut would use a video to release patch notes. On June 3rd, An updated chat filter was introduced. On June 15th, Trent would join the Minehut team as a co-owner. On July 4th, Minehut would restore permanent tiers. It would only apply to people that had already purchased permanent tiers, however, permanent tiers would not be for sale again. On July 7th, Minehut would remove world borders for existing servers. On August 4th, Minehut would be updated to Minecraft 1.12.1 and players would have to update their Minecraft version to connect. and two days later, server icons would return to Minehut. The very same day, Luuke added support for Minecraft 1.8 as requested by the community.

On October 2nd, Minehut would publish the initial version of their Minecraft: Bedrock Edition iOS App, downloadable on the App Store. This day also saw the creation of the support.minehut.com email address for support concerns. Five days later, on October 7th, Luuke would announce the addition of server subdomains. If you had a server, you could now directly join that server using the format ServerName.minehut.me instead of using /join in the lobby. Warzone was given a special subdomain of warzone.network since it was an official server.

On October 11th, Android support was added for the Minehut app. On October 14th, voting for uptime was removed as Luuke felt it wore off and caused new players to be frustrated with the service. Minehut also enabled the old castle lobby. On November 27th, Minehut would release another update. This update included network settings, the /ignore command and a change which made anti-cheat plugins not count towards the Minehut plugin limit.

On December 28th, Minehut would start giving out credits for previous tier subscribers. In order to receive credits, they would have to have purchased a tier between November 22nd and December 27th.

• For the Bronze tier, 466 credits were given out.
• For the Silver tier, 1406 credits were given out.
• For the Gold tier, 2250 credits were given out.
• For the Platinum tier, 3562 credits were given out.
• For the Diamond tier, 5437 credits were given out.

This update was met with a lot of backlash, so much so that one of the Minehut developers would actually be hacked and Luuke was banned from Minehut by the hacker. This was quickly resolved after the hacker was banned by a moderator and Luuke was unbanned.

Minehut also launched a brand new control panel and there was a massive server rewrite. All existing servers were converted to legacy servers. These servers were downloadable in the lobby using the /legacydownload command. The very first server to be created following this server rewrite was the server Particle, owned and named after ZeroParticle.

2018

On January 8th, 2018, the brand new File Manager feature was rolled out. This allowed players to edit configuration files through an easy-to-use file management interface. On January 15th, Minehut released yet another server configuration update. This update made it so that players could configure world generation throughout the web panel. Players could navigate to the Server Properties part of the dashboard, click the Level Type and select their preferred generation type. Once that was complete, players would have to reset their world using the World Settings section, then restart their server. The very next day on the 16th, a new Repair Server button was rolled out in the Danger Zone section of the control panel.

On January 24th, Lucas/Gamer would announce that the friends system had returned to the network, promising that friend-specific settings and /friends teleport (allowing players to teleport to their friends across the network, if settings allowed it) would come in the next few days.

Although Patron rank had existed for a while at this point, it was only given to players who had spent an incredible amount on Minehut. On February 15th, the Patron rank was made purchasable.

On March 19th, Luuke announced the creation of forums.gg which was a brand new way to create a community website. On April 2nd, the Minehut forums would be changed to use this new forums software. The next day, Minehut would switch back to the 2016 Minehut Lobby and chat was changed so that default users had grey chat and staff/ranked users had white chat. On April 14th & 16th respectively, Luuke announced some minor updates where the storage backend was upgraded, the homepage of the website was redesigned, bugs were fixed, quality of life changes were added, a push notification with sound was added when the server had completed startup and the shop was redesigned in preparation of adding credit card purchases. On June 6th & 10th, more things were achieved. Minehut hit 1000 concurrent players for the first time, 466 concurrent servers and the dashboard layout was redesigned.

On June 22nd, 2018, Minehut formed a partnership with Super League. This partnership would eventually see Minehut acquired by them on July 18th, 2018. New developers would be working on awesome features, faster servers would be added to the network and more room for plugin updates would be added.

Throughout years of change, Minehut kept evolving from an in-game GUI to a website, and features were slowly added throughout the years. Work done by Minehut administrators such as Luuke, MatrixTunnel, ZeroParticle, iSprux, Lucas/Gamer & Trent helped to push Minehut beyond its limits before it was acquired by Super League.

Luuke's Update Logs

Main article: Luuke's Update Logs

Classic Minehut (Super League)

July 18th, 2018 to February 26th, 2024

On July 18th, 2018, Minehut was acquired by Super League Gaming (later renamed to Super League Enterprise) Afterward, Trent took the role as Product Manager of Minehut until retiring in January 2023.

With the Minehut Unleashed update under SLE, Minehut users now had the ability to create networks, upload any custom plugin to their server (which, prior to this, they could only download from a list of Minehut-chosen plugins), select custom versions, have access to a live server console, and much more!

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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Super League Update Logs

Main article: Super League Update Logs

Modern Minehut (GamerSafer)

February 27th, 2024 to Today

2024

On February 27th, 2024, Minehut was acquired by GamerSafer, the current owners to this day. With this acquisition, many employees left Minehut as they stayed with Super League or went their own separate ways. As familiar faces left Minehut, new faces arrived such as stifflered, Minehut's Product Manager or Rodrigo & Maria Tamellini, the co-founders of GamerSafer. From all of the Administrators that had left Minehut, the only remaining ones were Puremin0rez, jamieisthebest & _Gingey_ handling support tickets with _Star & pop4959 handling development.

To begin with the GamerSafer reign, the co-founders of GamerSafer and stifflered hosted a live voice call in the Minehut Discord to answer any questions that the community had regarding the acquisition. The #gamersafer channel was also created to answer community questions.

On March 4th, a brand new Spring themed lobby was delivered to the community featuring a brand new parkour course. On the 11th, Minehut transitioned to using a brand new ticket system under GamerSafer systems and with this, came some downtime for the support email.

In April, a brand new event came to Minehut, called the Duckerations. This event featured a group of Moderators consisting of Azuyamat, Kailum, lilrosalyn, Outspending, Phantom_Fire7, Phrogolotl, Preceding, PoikNerd, Reassembly, rosabel, Santio71, SolarStephen, _Tarna_, UnitAspect & UwUAroze called Team A battling against another team of Moderators led by DuckyProgrammer, also featuring stifflered, Jamie47 & Jaidzn. This team was called Team B. With this event came the introduction of the Duck & Crow tags to the Minehut lobby. As Team B won the community poll for the event, their build was added into the Minehut lobby.

On May 3rd, a massive update was announced. After listening to community feedback & requests, and compiling them alongside the information and data GamerSafer had collected from viewing how Minehut ran for the two months prior, they decided to fulfill two of the biggest requests:

• Deletion of old abandoned servers so that Minehut would run more flexible and lean, setting Minehut up for the future positively.
• Releasing the server names of these servers so that current Minehut players can use names that have been inactive for years.

Players had 27 days, from May 3rd until May 30th to keep their server if it was marked as abandoned. For a server to qualify as abandoned, it must not have been started by any player in the last 365 days / 1 year from April 30th. Owners of abandoned servers were emailed on this date to remind them to keep their servers if they wished.

To keep their server, all players had to do was log into their Minehut account and click Keep My Server to keep their server. Additionally, if they didn't care about their server being deleted but wished to keep the files for the future, they could click the Download My Files button, which was available for both free and paid servers.

The Mother's Day event of 2024 began on April 10th. This also brought the Boop Arena to the Minehut lobby. It involved an event where players could earn the Flower Tag by collecting 12 flowers throughout the Minehut Lobby, which was decorated specifically for the Mother's Day event.

On May 15th, there were some minor updates. It was announced Minehut would be going through a list of server names and suspending any servers with inappropriate names. Also announced on this day was a new onboarding process for the Minehut Discord which made it easier for people to know what roles to obtain if they wanted to be updated on certain things in the community, such as changelogs being released, status updates on Minehut's condition, things within the community such as new events, celebrating holidays and a brand new role for announcing Minehut events.

From May 15th to May 23rd, Minehut would unfortunately suffer downtime due to one of the racks of the machines being affected by a power cycle in the datacenter. This brought down the network cluster, which had problems rebuilding itself. During the time that Minehut was down, Puremin0rez hosted livestreams where he would go around to various different external servers and show off some really cool servers, such as, but not limited to: Cubed Community and LeoneMC.

During this time, a temporary lobby was set up using a host in Germany. This temporary lobby did not allow connections to Minehut servers, however, it was using the Minehut world and Minehut Staff had fun with the lobbies, even featuring GreyHashira doing a livestream for multiple hours.

On May 23rd, Minehut officially returned to normality. Stifflered announced reimbursements for paid plans and ranks affected by the downtime, which were doubled from what they would've been.

Following Minehut's downtime, the Server Name Reservation page on the Minehut Dashboard officially went live. The discord announcement for this featured a video from _Tarna_ demonstrating how to reserve a server name. This also coincided with the clean up of Minehut's discord, featuring a brand new channel called #admin-findings and the closure of #server-ads in favour of the more popular #servers and account migrations were announced.

With the arrival of June, so came Pride Month and Minehut celebrated Pride Month with a brand new Minehut lobby, however development was very busy at this time therefore Minehut would have to wait for the Pride lobby until it launched on June 14th. The Pride event for 2024 came with the classic Pride tag that had came with the Pride event in 2023, however, the coloured version of the rank was now available to all users. To obatin the Pride tag this time around, players had to complete the Pride-themed parkour course. The Pride Balloon was also introduced, obtainable by climbing up the rainbow bridge with 2 friends. With this change, also came the Father's Day event for 2024 in which players had to find all of the food items around the Minehut lobby to earn the Bacon Tag. The lobby for the Pride event was redesigned by the Minehut moderators.

Later in June, stifflered provided an update regarding Server Name Reservations. He informed the community at the time of announcement of June 26th, over 3 million server names & abandoned servers had been released. If a server name that a player had reserved was deleted, that player was now able to use the server name. Names would remain reserved for 30 days before they expired or they would be released back to the public. More names were to be released at a later date. This update also included the removal of the free server download limit, full account migration completed and the increase of hardware capacity for paid servers to reduce server queues.

On July 3rd, a brand new lobby was introduced and the 4th of July event began, in which players could launch fireworks.

This also featured many changes, such as the following:

In-game changes:

• Fully refreshed server browser menu.
• Brand new Control Center menu.
• Reintroduction of the Random Server portal.
• 1.8 PvP server category
• All players get the click-to-join feature on /ad.

Website changes:

• File Manager now displays folder sizes.
• Upgrading and managing server plans became much easier.
• Changing your server version became smoother.

More here: A New Lobby & More | July 3rd, 2024

On July 26th, two brand new tags were added to the Minehut lobby. The first tag was the Torch Bearer Tag, obtainable if the user had found all 15 torches spread across the Minehut lobby. The second tag was the Champion Tag, obtainable at first if the player had reached 500 high score on the brand new infinite parkour, however, its requirements were changed and it was changed to 500 total blocks of parkour. The Torch Bearer tag's event would end on August 12th.

On August 20th, Minehut was met with the sad news that Minehut Staff Manager & Support Agent _Gingey_ would be leaving the Minehut team to seek new adventures elsewhere.

A brand new changelog was released to the public on August 23rd. This changelog included updates such as, but not limited to:

• /wiki command that brought you to the Minehut Wiki.
• New warnings feature added for moderators to ping rule-breakers before a mute/ban.
• File Manager received improved performance and reduced risk of Out of Memory crashes.
• Optimized backups system and added better handling of errors.
• Improved server downloads and speed on startup.
• An error message now appears if the server is not fully started yet in the file manager.
• File Manager now estimates the size of very large folders with many files instead of perfectly calculating the size.
• Falling off the parkour now teleports the player right to the start so they can jump back in faster.

On August 29th, a massive update was finally brought to Minehut. Sub-users was added to Minehut officially since it first being suggested on the Minehut Meta github page in 2020. It was rolled out for paid server plans only whilst Minehut rolled the feature out and improved it. This day also saw an update in cosmetics as the autumn cosmetics were released.

Since GamerSafer acquired Minehut, they have been focused on stability updates and community events.

GamerSafer Update Logs

Main article: GamerSafer Update Logs

Gallery

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  A Minehut logo used on the Minehut website during 2015, at least April 2015.

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  The logo of Minehut during the Luuke era, featuring the old logo and text about Minehut.

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  The very first and oldest Minehut logo under the Super League era, just after the acquisition.

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  The logo of Minehut during the Super League era, featuring the Super League lighting bolt.

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  Minehut's current logo under GamerSafer today, in Minehut's iconic light blue colour.

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  The Abandoned Server Deletion email when sent to owners of abandoned servers.