STURDY

About

A small network, on purpose

Sturdy is one Minecraft: Java Edition network with three game modes in the making, run by people who play on it every day. Built to still be here next year.

The idea

Survival is the first mode: a towns and nations SMP where you claim land, found a town and grow it into a nation, with an economy that players run. Heist, a comedy crime city, and Mob Wars, an army-versus-army strategy game, are being built on the same network. You arrive in the hub, pick a server, and your Gem balance and your purchases follow you between them.

The name means what it says. Sturdy is built to last: a home world that is never reset, purchases that are never lost to a relaunch, and owners who are on the server, not just running it. You will find the owner around spawn as Kilstrom.

What we promise

  • The home world never resets. Seasons on Survival are the resource world and events, never the towns.
  • The owners play. Most evenings, US time. Questions get answered by someone who knows the server.
  • Ranks are perks and cosmetics. Survival's rank ladder is earned by playing and is not for sale; premium ranks sit beside it, never above it. Every crate shows its real odds, and everything in a crate can be won by playing.
  • Nothing bought is ever taken away. A rank or a Gem balance survives every update.
  • Small on purpose. A network that knows its players beats a crowd that leaves.

Timeline

Sep 19, 2026The network is decided: every game mode behind the same address.
Sep 20, 2026Sturdy Survival opens to everyone at survival.sturdymc.com: the whitelist comes off.
Sep 24, 2026Listed on the server lists; the first strangers arrive.
Sep 28, 2026The store opens with crate keys and Gems; the Beta Sale runs to October 12.
Oct 4, 2026Survival's six premium ranks go live in game; staff applications open.
Oct 5, 2026Heirlooms on Survival: engraving first, then stats and tiers (Oct 6) and the enchant ladders (Oct 7).
SoonThe official launch date, Heist and Mob Wars. The Discord hears first.

Under the hood

For the players who like to know: every server runs Paper on Minecraft 26.2 behind a Velocity proxy, so one login reaches every mode and your identity is checked with Mojang once. The network sits behind DDoS protection, every server is backed up nightly with the backups mirrored off-site, and the restore has been drilled. Bans are shared across the network; mutes and game rules are each server's own.

Contact

  • Players: the Discord, #help for questions and #reports for players, #bug-reports for exploits.
  • Store and account problems: [email protected], with your Minecraft username and the time of the purchase.
  • Creators, press, partnerships: the same address. We work with small streamers on creator codes.
  • Social: @playsturdymc on X and on Instagram.

Sturdy MC is not an official Minecraft product and is not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.