Java: play.necrowing.devBedrock: bedrock.necrowing.dev Port: 58764Free · No pay-to-win · No modpack
Day 1
SINCE OCT 31, 2026
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SERVER STATUS
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DISCORD MEMBERS
33k+
LINES OF CUSTOM CODE
JAVA & BEDROCK CROSS-PLAY
How to join
On PC, phone or console, you can be in the world in under a minute.
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Get whitelisted
Join the Discord and post your in-game name in #whitelist-requests.
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Add the server
Go to Multiplayer → Add Server and paste play.necrowing.dev. No mods and no launcher needed.
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Pick your class
Use the emblem on your hotbar to choose one of seven classes, then head out.
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Get whitelisted
Join the Discord and post your gamertag in #whitelist-requests.
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Add the server
Play → Servers → Add Server. Address bedrock.necrowing.dev, port 58764.
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Pick your class
Tap the emblem on your hotbar to choose a class. Same world as Java players.
SERVER ADDRESS
play.necrowing.dev
Pre-alpha: expect bugs, changes and progress wipes. Report what you find in the Discord. Want voice? See proximity voice chat (optional).
VANILLA BASE · MMO SYSTEMS
Built for real MMO players
Every system was built from scratch to feel like it could've shipped in vanilla. Click any card to dig in.
📱CROSS-PLAYJava + BedrockPC, phone and console players share one world.
🧱NO MODPACKJust joinNo launcher and no 300-mod download. Vanilla client, MMO server.
Seven classes, each with a role in the group. You carry one emblem on your hotbar: use it to swap into stance, where your abilities live, then swap back to build and mine. New abilities slot in as you level.
Old-school MMO targeting, built on vanilla controls. Right-click a mob to target it (tap on Bedrock). There's no need to be in sword range.
CLICK
Right-click whatever's in your crosshair, up to 32 blocks away. Walls block it, and a miss keeps your target.
HIT
Hitting a mob targets it too.
CYCLE
The Next Target stance slot steps through mobs in front of you, nearest first.
ASSIST
/assist <player> takes the tank's target, so everyone hits the same mob.
WHAT YOU SEE
A compact target panel on the right of your screen shows the mob's name in its con color, its level, its health, and whether it's attacking you.
A marker over your target that only you can see.
Tank classes get a hate meter that shows who the mob wants and when you need to Taunt.
FIGHTING WITH A TARGET
Melee abilities fire the moment you select their slot.
Spells: select the slot, then right-click to cast. A cast bar fills, moving interrupts it, and taking damage might. Spells check range and line of sight to your target.
Heals land on the player you're looking at. Look away and they go to whoever in your group is hurt most, and they never steal your target.
/con sizes up your target before you pull.
GROUPS OF 6
/invite a friend. Group members near a kill share its XP and named credit, can't hurt each other, and show on your sidebar with their health. Classic roles apply: the tank holds hate, the healer keeps them up, and everyone else assists.
Optional. You can play fine without it. With it, you hear players close to you and their voices fade with distance. Callouts in a dungeon hit different.
Install the mod. Get Simple Voice Chat from Modrinth for Fabric, NeoForge or Forge, matching the server's Minecraft version. The Modrinth App or Prism can install it for you.
Join as usual. Connect to play.necrowing.dev. The server side is already set up.
Press V. This opens the voice menu. Pick your mic, test it, then choose push-to-talk or voice activation.
Java only for now. Bedrock players can still play normally, they just can't use voice. The mod's group chat lets you talk to friends from anywhere, and you can rebind any key in Controls.
GEAR DROPS IN FOUR TIERS
NORMAL
Plain vanilla gear.
MAGIC
1–2 bonuses like +5 STR or +mana.
RARE
3–4 bonuses. It glows when it drops.
UNIQUE
Hand-made items with their own icons and particle auras.
Hostile mobs drop Magic and Rare gear of their level. Named mobs camp fixed spots on respawn timers and carry their own loot tables, including the uniques.
It's all still vanilla gear underneath, so you can enchant, repair and mend it as usual. If you're under-leveled or the wrong class, only the bonuses go dormant.
IMBUING
Grind magic gear at a grindstone for Imbuing Flux. Then sneak + right-click an enchanting table with a full library to roll plain gear into a Magic item, or spend a Gem of Secrets (named mobs only) to reroll an item's bonuses and lock the one you like.
COIN & TRADE
Mobs drop copper, silver, gold and platinum. Coin you carry falls on your corpse when you die, so bank it.
A Banker in every village, a server-wide auction house (/ah), mail and player-to-player trade windows.
SKILLS BY USE
Swords, archery, dodge, mining, fishing and more rise as you use them. Gathering skills speed you up, double your drops and turn up rare finds like buried magic items and travel scrolls.
"Camp the named. Fear the corpse run."
You die. You lose 10% of a level's XP, and yes, you can lose a level. Falls, lava and the void all count. Dying is never a free trip home.
Your stuff stays behind. Your gear and carried coin stay on your corpse where you fell. /corpse points your compass at it.
Go get it. You have 2 hours before it rots and everything on it is gone. Bring friends if it's somewhere nasty.
Or find a Cleric. A Resurrection brings back most of the XP you lost and moves you to your corpse. You can also pay for a trip back to your corpse right after you respawn, but that won't return any XP.
CON BEFORE YOU PULL
/con colors a mob from gray (no XP) to red (run). Mobs get tougher the farther you go from spawn, and mobs keep a hate list, so the tank has to hold aggro. Some levels are hell levels that need 50% more XP.
Deaths to other players cost no XP.
Travel is earned. There's no /warp, /home or /tpa. Walking is the default, which is what makes corpse runs, far-off camps and Wizards worth something.
WAY HOME
WHO
HOW
Bind
Everyone
Sleep in a bed. That's where you respawn and where Gate takes you.
Gate
Wizard, Cleric, Necro (lvl 5)
8s cast back to your bind. Any hit breaks it, and it has a 15-minute recast, so it won't save you mid-fight.
Song of Homecoming
Bard (lvl 15)
The Bard's Gate. Stand still and sing yourself home.
Soulbind
Necromancer (lvl 8)
Binds you or a friend to the exact spot, such as a camp out in the wilds.
Combine Port
Wizard (lvl 10)
Opens a portal for the whole group to any active beacon. Costs mana and coin.
Scrolls
Anyone
Blank Scrolls are rare fishing and digging finds. Inscribe one at a beacon to make a Scroll of Port. A Scroll of Return takes you home.
BEACONS ARE THE PORT NETWORK
Build a beacon, give it a name, and it shows up on everyone's map and becomes a Wizard port. You can see the beam from far away, and the Nether Star cost keeps the network small.
★ SERVER FIRST
Some titles exist once per server. The first player to earn one keeps it, the whole server hears about it, and everyone after can only see who got there first. the Merchant Prince goes to the first player to spend 100 platinum. Who claims it?
TRY ON A TITLE
Your title shows above your head and in chat, in full color. Gradients included. Big ones also change the color of your name. Pick one:
Hit level 50 and your class itself takes a new name, so Warriors become Knights and Necromancers become Hexed Ones. Some titles stay secret until someone earns them.
LEADERBOARDS
The server counts everything you do, and /top ranks it. Every board is empty right now, so every #1 spot is up for grabs.
⚔ MOBS SLAIN
#1 unclaimed
☠ NAMED SLAIN
#1 unclaimed
✚ HEALING DONE
#1 unclaimed
⛏ BLOCKS MINED
#1 unclaimed
🎣 FISH CAUGHT
#1 unclaimed
⚰ CORPSES RECOVERED
#1 unclaimed
✦ RARE DROPS
#1 unclaimed
⛃ PEAK WEALTH
#1 unclaimed
There are dozens more boards, including damage dealt, dodges, crits, distance traveled, blocks placed and time played. Open /records in game and click any record to see its board.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Achievements in Adventure, Combat and Loot tabs, with progress bars. On Java they also show up on the advancements screen (L), with toasts.
Prefer to stay mysterious? /anon hides your level, class and title.
THE OLD-SCHOOL PROMISE
Earned, not bought
Most servers fund themselves by selling power. This one won't. Every item, title and #1 spot is earned in game, the way MMOs used to work.
✕No pay-to-winMoney can't buy gear, levels or stats.
✕No crates or keysNo crate keys and no daily key grind.
✕No loot boxesGear drops from mobs and named camps, not from spins.
✕No ranks for saleYour title is something you did, not something you bought.
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What you get instead: drops you camped for, a Cleric who rezzed you, a corpse run you survived, and a title that means something. The server is free to play, and every reward is earned the old-school way.
THE STORY SO FAR
Built in the open
One dev, one idea: an old-school MMO that lives inside vanilla Minecraft. Here's how it's going.
OCT 31, 2026
First line of code
Development starts on Halloween, naturally. The Paper plugin begins with classes, stats and levels.
EARLY NOV 2026
The MMO takes shape
Stances, targeting, corpse runs, loot tiers, travel, achievements and titles all land, and AI bot swarms playtest the server before any human does.
NOV 12, 2026
The Discord opens
The Necrowing.dev Lair goes up as home for players and the devlog.
NOV 13, 2026
play.necrowing.dev goes live
The server gets its own address and this site launches.
NOW · DAY 1
Pre-alpha playtests
Founding members wanted. Join the Discord and be one of the first.
GOT QUESTIONS?
Frequently asked
What is Necrowing?
Necrowing is an indie dev building blocky worlds. The first project is a Minecraft MMO server at play.necrowing.dev, inspired by old-school EverQuest: classes, groups, named camps, loot and corpse runs, on a vanilla base.
Is it free? Is it pay-to-win?
It's free, and it isn't pay-to-win. There's no store, no crates, no loot boxes and no ranks for sale. Everything is earned in game.
Do I need mods or a launcher?
No. Join with a normal Minecraft client. The only optional mod is Simple Voice Chat, if you want proximity voice.
Can I play on Bedrock (phone, console)?
Yes. Add bedrock.necrowing.dev with port 58764 and you'll share the same world as Java players. Voice chat is Java-only for now.
How do I get whitelisted?
Join the Discord and post your in-game name in #whitelist-requests.
Is it finished?
No. It's pre-alpha, so expect bugs, changes and progress wipes while systems are tuned. Your feedback shapes what gets built next.
Where can I follow development?
The #devlog channel in the Discord, plus TikTok, Instagram and YouTube at @necrowing.