Kettlewood, a cosy 18+ Minecraft SMP

A cosy, adults-only SMP with one persistent world, a real town and no pay-to-win. Slow builds, long memories.

Server address play.kettlewood.org Java Edition 26.2; 26.3 clients welcome Survival SMP · 18+ · English · 10 × 10 km world · no resets · no PvP · keep-inventory · no pay-to-win

Sunset over Kettlewood: the hot-air balloon above the harbour, the lighthouse and the white houses of the town. — Sunset over the harbour, the balloon, the lighthouse and the town. In game, no edits.

What is Kettlewood

One world, kept for good. No resets, ever. What you build stays, and nobody can take it: no PvP, keep-inventory on.
A real town to live in. Buy a plot around the village or open a shop in the market quarter, or claim your own corner of the wild, free.
Fair, and for grown-ups. Adults only (18+). Everything is earned by playing: the store only has cosmetic ranks and bonuses for the whole server.

What makes it different

The /quests screen in game: this week's errands for Odo the clerk and for the museum curator.

Errands every week

Two on the town board each Monday. Sixteen sheets of paper for Odo's registers, a piece for the museum. Small, done in an evening, and the town remembers who helped. Town life.

The /friends screen in game: Odo Fennimore and Brannoch Ashgrave, what they love and like, their birthdays and your hearts.

Friends in town

Odo the clerk and Brannoch the smith know what they like. Bring a gift, earn a heart; on their birthday it counts double. Hearts never go down.

The /calendar screen in game: Sunday soup tastings, new town orders, the Diggings renewed and the treasure hunt.

Sundays and seasons

Soup on the square every Sunday at six, new town orders on Mondays, the Diggings renewed on the 1st with a treasure hunt, all in /calendar, Central European Time.

A museum to fill. Give the first of every rare thing you find, music discs, sherds, armor trims, and watch the town's collection grow.
A treasure hunt every month in the Diggings, with clues that get clearer every week, and mob parties on the Mushroom Island, called by the players.
A resource world through the gate under the town hall, renewed every month, with four mines to open; mine all you like, the main world stays beautiful.
Embers (✦), a small player economy: a wage while you play, the town counter, players' shops.
A balloon ride to your own corner of the wild when you arrive, and guilds if you'd rather play together (entirely optional).

A look around

Screenshots taken in game, not mock-ups; the last one is a render of the whole town.

The bandstand and the town hall, by day
The market street
The town hall: a map on the wall, a clerk at every desk
The open-air theatre
The square after dark
Fireside in the outpost lodge
The jetty on the lake in the Diggings
The mine yard, after dark
The gate to the Diggings
The council room, fire lit
The whole town, from the air

Keeping Kettlewood running

Everything that matters is earned by playing. The store sells cosmetic ranks and bonuses for the whole server, and every purchase pays the server's rent. How it works.

Evening bonus shares fill a second bar: every 20 € lights a 3-hour bonus for everyone, at 8 pm.

How to join

Open Minecraft Java Edition 26.2 (26.3 works too).
Add the server play.kettlewood.org and join; you can look around right away.
Read the rules (two minutes, promise).
Confirm them; type /rules in game to get your personal link.
Build, mine, settle in. Welcome home.

Until you confirm the rules, you're a visitor: you can explore and read the chat, but not talk, build or pick things up.