Evercraft started small as a group of Minecrafters from around reddit. Back in September of 2019, I put out my first "Looking for Players" post on reddit with nothing more than a bare bones world and a bare bones Discord server. We have been growing consistently through the same grassroots methods ever since.

In just two short months Evercraft had developed from a new realm to an active and thriving community. Our Discord server grew to accommodate our player base, and we started to develop our democracy system. One of our first votes was whether or not we would continue pure vanilla, or give up achievements in favor of "Vanilla+" plugins. The community overwhelmingly voted to go Vanilla+ and our realm evolved from there.

Since a recent update to Minecraft was causing major issues with our standard survival realm, I began looking into creative ways to run an ultra-lightweight world that would still captivate players. The result was a superflat survival world where you could mine cobblestone to sell to a server shop, and in return buy items and special power ups. Overall the project was a success but is temporarily shelved.

During the 2 month period between the closure of v1 and the opening of v2, one of our moderators at the time opened a pure-vanilla realm called North Haven Forge. This realm acted as a sister realm where most of our community played on during the downtime. The realm focused heavily on themed builds and towns, and brought a lot of talented builders into our community. The main town on the realm, North Haven, heavily inspired the aesthetic of Evercraft, and is also the reason Evercraft uses our "towns" system today.

Evercraft v2 was originally planned to launch at the beginning of January 2020, but due to a number of setbacks, was delayed until mid February. When the realm finally did launch, new moderators were brought on and within a month our playerbase doubled in size.

After a short week of downtime, Evercraft v3 came back with a bang. To build hype for the upcoming Nether Update, we have installed a couple special modifications to create a truly unique experience. Version three actually takes place in a time before the nether exists.

Portals will fail to light, and as a result nether materials are much harder to find... but not impossible. Luckily for us, there are time travellers wandering around who might be willing to sell you what you need... for a steep price. Additionally, without nether network travel, unconventional methods of travel like boats and horses are once again relevant. As well as elytra being even more important than ever.

With the release of MCBE 1.16, v3 transitioned to v3.1. PortalWarden has been disabled, opening up access to the nether. An advanced nether network has been established, and some shops have even begun to be built directly in the nether hub. Our custom traders plugin has been updated with more relevant trades to reflect the new materials in the nether update. We've also decommissioned our custom LagClear system since mob despawning has been fixed.