Mineplex

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Mineplex is a Minecraft minigame server created in 2013 by Gregory Bylos and Jarred van de Voort. The server was shut down on May 11, 2023. In 2016, Mineplex had millions of unique players monthly. At its peak, the server had around 20,000 concurrent players at any given time. Mineplex won the Guinness World Records award on January 28, 2015, for having 34,434 concurrent players, the most on a Minecraft server at the time. This record was later lost to Hypixel the same year. The server was later purchased, and relaunched in 2026. Mineplex's popularity on the Java Edition of Minecraft rapidly declined after its peak years, while the Bedrock Edition counterpart averaged 4,000+ concurrent players. After years of decline, Mineplex abruptly ceased its operations on May 11, 2023. Following the closure, former admin and Overwatch content creator Samito stated on social media that he had acquired Mineplex and plans on re-opening it sometime in the future. Mineplex underwent a rebuild and modernization effort. The Closed Beta began on August 9, 2024. Access to the server was locked behind a paywall, set to relaunch to the public sometime in the future. On March 7th, 2026, Samito announced in the Mineplex Discord server that he and the team had recognized that their strengths and the direction they were building toward, being a professional cloud infrastructure company, did not align with what long-time players expected or what Mineplex was historically. Samito passed the assets which were acquired by James, confident in his ability to build something memorable. The same evening, James followed up with his own announcement stating that their goal was to fulfill the promise to bring Mineplex back as promised, and to build a community-driven server packed with both classic and modern content. Since then, many staff positions, social media...