mc.piratemc.com
Join the Vast Ranks of Over 450,000+ Adventurers - PirateCraft Awaits Your Arrival!
Connect & Play
In Java Minecraft click "Multiplayer" then "Add Server" and into server address input mc.piratemc.com.
After joining, Leave spawn to start building & surviving, Semi-Vanilla Minecraft with a Pirate Theme and custom mechanics.
Get StartedShips & Cannons
Build your own custom Ship and sail the oceans, equip it with working cannons to sink rivals!
You can Sail and Steal small Dhows as soon as you spawn! /rank up in-game to use larger ship types, or /donate to bypass ranking and unlock all ships and cannons!
Learn ShipsPirate Crews
Be part of an Empire, Build or join a crew of Pirates and play together. Crews get private chat, alliances, crew home, kills and stats tracking, crew member vitals and setting your own custom crew rank names!
Learn CrewsProtecting Builds
Pirates can protect their builds or plots of land easily on PirateCraft, no commands needed, just a golden shovel! More Claim blocks are awarded for game-play. Read further about Claiming Land and Builds on our guides page.
Learn ProtectionAutomatic Ranking by playing
Auto-Ranking gains homes, features, commands, kits and more permissions! Ranking is based on game-play statistics. Use /rank in-game to monitor promotion progress.
Learn RanksPirate Marketplace
The PirateCraft Economy is fully player driven with a giant pirate marketplace to buy, sell and run a shop!
In-game MoneyCustom Brewing
Brew custom pirate Grog! PirateCraft has 200+ custom brewing recipes! You can brew and barrel-age good hard booze!
Learn BrewingWorking Gates & Bridges
Build unlimited gates and bridges of any size for your castles and forts! Build a moat with a working bridge and working portcullis gate! All triggered by a simple lever or redstone! Get creative and build traps!
Gates & BridgesPublications
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PCGamesN - The best Minecraft servers
Sail, build, and plunder in PirateCraft, a server dedicated to the golden age of scurvy and theft.
PirateCraft is one of the most ambitious servers weโve played on and even has a fully-functioning ship-to-ship combat mechanic.
As with all Minecraft ideas of such magnitude, itโs a little clunky, but it works. Ships can be built and sailed across the seas, cannons can be mounted to the hull, and then used to fire at enemy vessels.
On land, a simple but functional economy replicates the trade and booty of the period, and players can create their own Minecraft builds on โsafe zonesโ in order to bunk and store treasures in.
Safe Zones are protected from griefers, meaning you can build as much as you like without fear of others trashing your masterpieces.
Piratecraftโs salty setting makes it one of the best Minecraft roleplay servers. Of course, if youโre roleplaying a pirate thereโs going to be some grief involved, and provided the owner is in a Safe Zone, other players can siege them. Attackers can destroy โsoftโ blocks, and generally make a nuisance of themselves until they either walk away or the defender surrenders. Similarly, ships can be stolen, provided the owner is not onboard at the time.
So if youโre looking for a PvP Minecraft server with a twist, this could be the buried treasure you seek.
PC Gamer - The best Minecraft servers
Sailing a ship around in Minecraft is tricky, but in PirateCraft, they do a surprisingly good job of making it work.
As is often the way with these Minecraft survival servers, it takes a bit of time to get used to things, but itโs well worth the effort if you like the idea.
The scale of the ships is impressive, as is the ship-to-ship combat. Just donโt be surprised when someone nicks your pirate ship. Thereโs no honour among thieves.
Visit PublicationRadioTimes - The best Minecraft servers
Pirate ships arenโt the most compatible mechanic to implement to Minecraft, but Piratecraft does a surprisingly admirable job of bringing the golden age of piracy to blocky life.
The ambitious server does take some time to get used to, but is worth learning for the impressive ship-to-ship combat.
You can dock at ports also and join the other landlubbers to trade with a functional currency, and even store your treasure in safe zones.
In true pirate fashion, however, ships can be stolen โ so be on your guard.
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PirateCraft Arctic Event 2024: Conquer Glacial Highlands with Custom Mobs & Loot
Welcome to Glacial Highlands! ๐ดโโ ๏ธ Ahoy, mates! At last, the long-awaited Arctic Event has arrived on PirateCraft! Prepare to set... View Article
Introducing ‘Pirate Codex’: Your Treasure Map to PirateCraft Players! ๐บ๏ธ
Ahoy, buccaneers! We’re thrilled to announce the Pirate Codex. A profile and index codex for all players on PirateCraft. You... View Article
June 2023 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!
Ahoy you Landlubbers and Pirates! Welcome back to Build Of The Month! Now let’s look at all this hot blocky... View Article
New Pirate Marketplace /shop2 is open for business! ๐
The /shop2 Pirate Market has been entirely redesigned at the pirate run marketplace and is now open for renting shops!... View Article
August 2022 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!
Ahoy you filthy pirates! We are back with the last of our Summer Competitions! Now let’s look at all this... View Article
July 2022 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!
Ahoy you filthy pirates! We are back with another Summer Competition! Now let’s look at all this hot Builds! Make... View Article
Summer of Grog 2022 – Massive Brewing upgrade! ๐บ
Custom brewing is back on PirateCraft! Since the upgrade I made from 1.12 to 1.18 we lost the brewing plugin... View Article
PirateCraft Creative rebuilt from the ground up for Minecraft 1.18.2 ๐๏ธ
PirateCraft Creative is back up and running 1.18.2 soon to be 1.19! PirateCraft Creative server has been re-built and is... View Article
May 2022 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!
Ahoy you filthy pirates! Look at all the submissions of this month! These Pirates put all their effort in building... View Article
April 2022 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!
Ahoy you filthy pirates! This month we’ve had few Entries, but I must say that they all look really cool!... View Article