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In Java Minecraft click "Multiplayer" then "Add Server" and into server address input mc.piratemc.com.

After joining, Leave spawn to start building & surviving, Semi-Vanilla Minecraft with a Pirate Theme and custom mechanics.

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Ships & Cannons

Build your own custom Ship and sail the oceans, equip it with working cannons to sink rivals!

You can Sail and Steal small Dhows as soon as you spawn! /rank up in-game to use larger ship types, or /donate to bypass ranking and unlock all ships and cannons!

Learn Ships

Pirate Crews

Be part of an Empire, Build or join a crew of Pirates and play together. Crews get private chat, alliances, crew home, kills and stats tracking, crew member vitals and setting your own custom crew rank names!

Learn Crews

Protecting Builds

Pirates can protect their builds or plots of land easily on PirateCraft, no commands needed, just a golden shovel! More Claim blocks are awarded for game-play. Read further about Claiming Land and Builds on our guides page.

Learn Protection

Automatic Ranking by playing

Auto-Ranking gains homes, features, commands, kits and more permissions! Ranking is based on game-play statistics. Use /rank in-game to monitor promotion progress.

Learn Ranks

Pirate Marketplace

The PirateCraft Economy is fully player driven with a giant pirate marketplace to buy, sell and run a shop!

In-game Money

Custom Brewing

Brew custom pirate Grog! PirateCraft has 200+ custom brewing recipes! You can brew and barrel-age good hard booze!

Learn Brewing

Working Gates & Bridges

Build unlimited gates and bridges of any size for your castles and forts! Build a moat with a working bridge and working portcullis gate! All triggered by a simple lever or redstone! Get creative and build traps!

Gates & Bridges

Publications

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PCGamesN is a British online video game magazine.

PCGamesN - The best Minecraft servers

Sail, build, and plunder in PirateCraft, a server dedicated to the golden age of scurvy and theft.

PirateCraft is one of the most ambitious servers weโ€™ve played on and even has a fully-functioning ship-to-ship combat mechanic.

As with all Minecraft ideas of such magnitude, itโ€™s a little clunky, but it works. Ships can be built and sailed across the seas, cannons can be mounted to the hull, and then used to fire at enemy vessels.

PCGamesN is a British online video game magazine

On land, a simple but functional economy replicates the trade and booty of the period, and players can create their own Minecraft builds on โ€˜safe zonesโ€™ in order to bunk and store treasures in.

Safe Zones are protected from griefers, meaning you can build as much as you like without fear of others trashing your masterpieces.

Piratecraftโ€™s salty setting makes it one of the best Minecraft roleplay servers. Of course, if youโ€™re roleplaying a pirate thereโ€™s going to be some grief involved, and provided the owner is in a Safe Zone, other players can siege them. Attackers can destroy โ€˜softโ€™ blocks, and generally make a nuisance of themselves until they either walk away or the defender surrenders. Similarly, ships can be stolen, provided the owner is not onboard at the time.

So if youโ€™re looking for a PvP Minecraft server with a twist, this could be the buried treasure you seek.

PCGamesN is a British online video game magazine.

PC Gamer - The best Minecraft servers

Sailing a ship around in Minecraft is tricky, but in PirateCraft, they do a surprisingly good job of making it work.

As is often the way with these Minecraft survival servers, it takes a bit of time to get used to things, but itโ€™s well worth the effort if you like the idea.

The scale of the ships is impressive, as is the ship-to-ship combat. Just donโ€™t be surprised when someone nicks your pirate ship. Thereโ€™s no honour among thieves.

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming.
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PCGamesN is a British online video game magazine.

RadioTimes - The best Minecraft servers

Pirate ships arenโ€™t the most compatible mechanic to implement to Minecraft, but Piratecraft does a surprisingly admirable job of bringing the golden age of piracy to blocky life.

The ambitious server does take some time to get used to, but is worth learning for the impressive ship-to-ship combat.

You can dock at ports also and join the other landlubbers to trade with a functional currency, and even store your treasure in safe zones.

In true pirate fashion, however, ships can be stolen โ€“ so be on your guard.

RadioTimes is a British weekly listings magazine. Founded in 1923
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๐Ÿ† September Build Of The Month (BOTM) entries have closed.

There werenโ€™t enough entries so I will be combining it with Octoberโ€™s BOTM. Dm @TobySF with any questions.

๐Ÿ† October Build Of The Month (BOTM)! ๐Ÿ†

The October BOTM is starting! Hereโ€™s the T&C's 1) Your Build has to be In Survival 2) All Entries must be acceptable (Pg) 4) Entries must be submitted by the 25th of October! 5) No specific theme is required, anything goes! 6) You cannot submit a previously entered build that placed in the top 3! 7) Your build cannot be built using tutorials or mods 8) One entry per person/group 9) The build must be claimed Any questions, please ask in #🏆๏ธฑcompetitions or dm @TobySF @Announcments Alerts @BOTM Alerts

Blog Posts

PirateCraft Arctic Event 2024: Conquer Glacial Highlands with Custom Mobs & Loot

Welcome to Glacial Highlands! ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ Ahoy, mates! At last, the long-awaited Arctic Event has arrived on PirateCraft! Prepare to set... View Article

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Introducing ‘Pirate Codex’: Your Treasure Map to PirateCraft Players! ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

Ahoy, buccaneers! We’re thrilled to announce the Pirate Codex. A profile and index codex for all players on PirateCraft. You... View Article

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June 2023 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!

Ahoy you Landlubbers and Pirates! Welcome back to Build Of The Month! Now let’s look at all this hot blocky... View Article

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New Pirate Marketplace /shop2 is open for business! ๐Ÿ›’

The /shop2 Pirate Market has been entirely redesigned at the pirate run marketplace and is now open for renting shops!... View Article

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August 2022 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!

Ahoy you filthy pirates! We are back with the last of our Summer Competitions! Now let’s look at all this... View Article

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July 2022 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!

Ahoy you filthy pirates! We are back with another Summer Competition! Now let’s look at all this hot Builds! Make... View Article

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Summer of Grog 2022 – Massive Brewing upgrade! ๐Ÿบ

Custom brewing is back on PirateCraft! Since the upgrade I made from 1.12 to 1.18 we lost the brewing plugin... View Article

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PirateCraft Creative rebuilt from the ground up for Minecraft 1.18.2 ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

PirateCraft Creative is back up and running 1.18.2 soon to be 1.19! PirateCraft Creative server has been re-built and is... View Article

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May 2022 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!

Ahoy you filthy pirates! Look at all the submissions of this month! These Pirates put all their effort in building... View Article

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April 2022 Build of The Month; Entries and Winners!

Ahoy you filthy pirates! This month we’ve had few Entries, but I must say that they all look really cool!... View Article

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