Join us and discover The Ancient World; The Oldest Minecraft Roleplay Server still online today.

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The TAW Codex contains a wealth of information on the history of our server as well as useful resources such as our world map and server rules.

The Ancient World is one of the oldest Minecraft worlds and longest running public servers known today, with the map first being created in July 2010 using Minecraft Alpha v1.0.4 where it was primarily used as a single player survival world, then becoming a private server in early 2011 before finally becoming a public server later that year.

Maintaining a world from July 2010 places The Ancient World in an elite tier of internet history, predating even 2b2t (December 2010) and sitting alongside MinecraftOnline (August 2010) as one of the oldest surviving Minecraft worlds in existence.

The Ancient World is filled to the brim with rich player history with countless stories both told and untold. A strong sense of this can be felt in the environment as you traverse the landscape and explore its many desiccated ruins.

Every ruin tells a story and much of the worlds history has been documented and archived in the form of The Codex, which is constantly being added to.

But The Ancient World is more than just another survival multiplayer world to build on. Since it’s original inception, our world has drawn inspiration from great games such as Wurm Online and Black & White, introducing roleplay themes to Minecraft which remain unique on our server to this day, including Gods, Prayer Logic, Rifts, and the passage of time whose effects can be seen across the entire world.

The Ancient World is always in a constant state of change and doesn’t remain stagnant for very long as it takes on a life of it’s own.

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Just because The Ancient World is over a decade old, doesn’t mean it’s a fossil. While our world has never had a full reset, it continuously shifts and evolves over time. We do this as a means of simulating the passage of time, which keeps the world moving in a dynamic way that keeps it fresh and interesting while still retaining its identity as one of the oldest Minecraft worlds.

New lands rise and fall from the oceans, continents re-arrange themselves, and biomes shift across the world – what was once a dense forest, now might be a vast tundra. What was once a dry desert, could become a wet rainforest. The Ancient World is not only persistent, but it’s also ever-changing.

World Events are the catalyst for change.

For example; the Age of Darkness is a global ice age triggered by volcanic eruptions. Forests die and turn once vibrant biomes into cold and desolate tundras where the only safe refuge from the freezing cold is deep underground. Players can no longer recognize the surface world as they struggle to explore and survive a world with changing rules.

The Ancient World is more than just another Minecraft map – it’s a living world. This is our vision and our dedication to maintaining the most persistent and emergent Minecraft world in existence today.