The family Minecraft server

mage.net

One address, always the same, from anywhere. The server sleeps when nobody's playing — joining wakes it up. That's the whole trick.

play.mage.net

Vanilla Minecraft 26.2 — no mods or launcher setup needed. Invite-only (ask Dad to add someone).

Joining

If the server is asleep, you wake it just by joining

In your server list it might say 😴 mage.net is sleeping — join to wake it. That's normal. Join anyway. You'll float in a quiet purple void with this at the top of your screen:

  1. Wait about two minutes. Don't disconnect — the bar is a timer, not a loading measure, and the world appears on its own the moment the server is ready.
  2. If it says "Almost ready — reconnect in a minute!", it means the server needed longer than usual. Just join again.
  3. Already awake? You skip all of this and go straight in.
From Discord

You can also type /start in the family Discord and connect two minutes later, or /status to check whether it's up without launching the game.

Powers

Things this server does that vanilla doesn't

Skills/skills
Everything you do — mining, farming, fighting, fishing — levels a skill and grants small permanent bonuses, plus mana abilities as you climb. Open /skills to see the whole tree.
Vein miningalways on
Break one ore and the whole vein pops. If you ever want to mine one block at a time, /veinminer toggle switches it off just for you.
Tree fellingsneak = off
Chop the bottom log and the whole tree falls, and a sapling replants itself. Hold sneak while chopping to break single logs normally.
Homes & teleports/sethome · /home · /tpa
/sethome where you live, /home to return, /spawn for world spawn, and /tpa Qualan to ask to teleport to someone (they accept with /tpaccept).
Chess/chess
Real playable chess against each other or the computer. First make a board on flat ground: /chess create_board home north, then /chess set_checkerboard home, then /chess challenge cpu. Pro tip for every command on the server: press Tab mid-command and the game shows what it expects next.
The living mapbrowser
A 3D map of everything we've explored at map.mage.net:8100 — works in any browser while the server is awake.
Coming soonNova
The machinery for custom blocks and items is installed but empty — we get to pick the content packs together. Campaign for your favorites.
House rules, encoded

The world itself

This is Elizabeth's world, moved from her single-player save — spawn is near her original base. The world keeps your stuff when you die (keepInventory on), creepers can't destroy builds (mob griefing off), and there's no PvP. Terrain is generated with the Tectonic pack, so mountains are genuinely worth climbing.

Whitelisted players: Qualan · VetaPhoenix79 — adding someone takes Dad about a minute.