Clockwise from top left, middle last: New Leningrad, Kappi, Breslau, Orion, Bryn, Holy Tree, Catalonia, Carson, Newtro, Aurora.

All of these are cities in Civcraft, built, maintained, governed, and defended by players, and players alone. There is no moderator help or intervention.

Civcraft is a political and civilisation simulator which uses Minecraft as a platform. Unlike most computer games which have pre programmed cities, non-player characters to interact with, quests to fulfill, Minecraft allows players to construct their own worlds, be their own people, gather their own resources, farm their own food, mine their own minerals, and build their own cities from an empty, randomly generated wilderness.

Civcraft takes Minecraft a step further. In Civcraft, it's not just about the world you walk around in. It's how you live, and interact with that world. Unlike most Minecraft servers, Civcraft does not ban thieves, murderers, vandals, or other criminals. In Civcraft, it's up to the players to band together and create peace.

Players create and enforce their own rules entirely in game, entirely without the intervention of game moderators or admins. Different groups and different ideologies take different approaches to this task.

Civcraft has thousands of active players, and almost always a hundred or so logged in at a time. The Civcraft world is a circle with a 30,000 block diameter, with players and cities spread out throughout the world. Unlike vanilla Minecraft, biomes are thousands of blocks across.

Several plugins have been introduced to enable and encourage civilisation to really take place, such as 'prison pearl', where you can imprison other players by killing them with an ender pearl in your hotbar, or RealisticBiomes, which drastically reduces the rate at which crops grow and animals breed, and makes it depend on the biome as well. Plugins such as Citadel allow players to use resources to reinforce doors, walls, and chests, which makes it difficult (but not impossible) to break in and steal.

There are several tens of active, inhabited large cities in Civcraft, and many more small towns and villages. There are also abandoned settlements, each of which has been wiped out for its own reasons. There is a very broad range of political ideologies in practise in Civcraft, and there are active cities at all ends of the spectrum.

Here is an album of a few of Civcraft's cities.

Here is a well used political map of Civcraft

Civcraft can be found at civcraft.org, though our subreddit, /r/Civcraft is much more widely used and up to date.

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask myself, or /r/Civcraft.