RetroMC

The largest and oldest running English Minecraft Beta server

A mostly vanilla PVE Towny server for anyone nostalgic for Minecraft Beta 1.7.3, running since 2014. Found a village, trade in the player economy and build with friends.

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Beta 1.7.3

players have joined: 100,000+
hours played: 594,000+
blocks placed: 192 million
travelled by players: 3.1 million km

What you can do on RetroMC

Towny villages and land claims

Found a village with JVillage, our modern replacement for Towny, to protect your builds, invite members and grow a town, or even found a nation, the ultimate faction on the server.

A player-run economy

Earn money at /warp shop or /warp market, or by fighting hostile mobs, then open a ChestShop of your own. The Player Market Shop Finder shows what’s for sale.

Beta Evolutions 2

Fixes skins, capes and sounds, and adds optional proximity voice chat, controller support, a modern chat box and smoother performance, while still feeling like Beta.

The Skylands and Farlands

Two extra worlds to explore. The Skylands are based on Beta 1.7.3’s floating islands, with extra features and improvements, and the Farlands are generated from Beta-era code.

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Our server

RetroMC is a Minecraft Beta server that has been running since 2014. It started as a small community server and grew into the oldest running English server in the Beta community, kept going by a dedicated team of staff and developers. Our team also builds open-source tools used across the Beta community, including Beta Evolutions and Project Poseidon.

Strictly no pay-to-win. Every rank in our store is purely cosmetic, and purchases go toward the server’s ongoing running costs.

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