Welcome to PirateCraft

PirateCraft is a pirate themed minecraft survival server, where you can build and sail your own ships as well as blowing each other up with cannons! Check out our Guides and Information pages for more information.

Build Working Ships & Cannons

You can sail your own custom built ships, and fire a range of working cannons on PirateCraft. Hoist your sails, and load the cannons, the seas are rough!

Learn to build and sail a ship

Auto Ranking System & Statistics

Work your way up the Pirate ranks, Earning yourself bigger sail-able ships, More working Cannons, permissions and kits. Check out your Statistics profile for in-depth detail on your gameplay.

Ranks and Commands

Vibrant Community

Build great things together, The PirateCraft community are always working on large projects and Crews always have projects ongoing, we have some fantastic settlements to explore! Head on over to the Map for a quick sneak peak!

Join a crew!

Competitions

Win yourself some booty! We have lots of open competitions to join, Check out the competitions forum for all the latest competitions.

What competitions are on?

mc.piratemc.com

Mature Pirate themed Minecraft Server with working Ships and Cannons

Connect & Play

Open Minecraft » Multiplayer » Add Server » Put our IP: mc.piratemc.com in the server address. After joining, Leave spawn shipwreck and start building, 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!
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Pirate Crews

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

Auto-Rank up the Command hierarchy to gain features, commands, sethomes, kits and more permissions! Ranking is based on game-play statistics, Check out Rank features and how to obtain a promotion. Use /rank in-game to monitor promotion progress.
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Statistics Tracking

Game-play Statistics are tracked live! PVP, Travel, Deaths, Builders, Mining, Gametime and much more are available in game with /stats and, we use this data to auto-rank players.
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Custom Brewing

Brew custom pirate Grog! PirateCraft has 86 custom brewing recipes! You can brew and barrel-age good hard booze! Learn more on the Brewing page.
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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 triggerd by a simple leaver or redstone! Get creative and build traps!
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Recent Changelogs

Christmas world now Lootable! in-game /Wiki is back! January 12, 2019 Alpha Ship Plugin LIVE, Help test! Removed Christmas Event January 10, 2019 January Maintenance #1 January 8, 2019 New Lighting clean plugin, Removed /coin, Missives updated, Crates updated. January 3, 2019 Deckhands can create crews, Reduced Deckhand & Cadet rank-up time, Updated vote info, Added 15 vote milestones December 15, 2018 New Xmas Treasure Chest & Vote Chest, /vote rewards changed! December 9, 2018 Updated online pirates micro mobile website with sort & search December 3, 2018 Changelogs have moved out of the forums to their own blog category November 27, 2018 New addition, 19000+ Custom heads with search on Creative! November 27, 2018 View All Changelogs

Blog Posts

Pirate Auctions, bid for unique & hard to get items!

I am super excited to announce Pirate Auctions /auc, built for PirateCraft by the wonderful @creepermorderen. Pirate Auctions allows me... View Article

Posted on December 10, 2018, 2:00 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Updates. Leave ye` thoughts

Santa’s pirate kit 2018

Time to start opening Santa’s gifts early! We are delighted to announce that advent calendars are making a return to... View Article

Posted on December 2, 2018, 11:45 pm by Published by GodsDead in Events, PirateCraft News. Leave ye` thoughts

Halloween Event 2018 – Elite Mobs

PirateCraft has been taken over by Elite mobs this Halloween month! Elite mobs are more powerful Minecraft mobs that will... View Article

Posted on October 31, 2018, 2:55 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft News. Leave ye` thoughts

Website Redesign

From 2012 to 2018 I spent the last 3 months building the website design from the ground up to bring... View Article

Posted on September 5, 2018, 1:27 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Updates. Leave ye` thoughts

August 2018 Build of the Month Competition

Greetin’s! We had a huge amount of entries for this competition, ranging from ships, entire bases to scorpions! You can... View Article

Posted on August 28, 2018, 10:19 pm by Published by Maximus Terragon in PirateCraft Build of the Month, PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Updates. Leave ye` thoughts

February 2018 Build of the Month Winners!

Bombarding the vote system from a new angle, staff were the deciding factor that cast the four winners for PirateCraft... View Article

Posted on March 12, 2018, 10:31 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft Build of the Month, PirateCraft Build of the Month Winner, PirateCraft News. Leave ye` thoughts

100,000 Unique Pirates!

100,000 Unique Pirates joined PirateCraft! On the 2nd March 2018 we had our 100,000th unique pirate join PirateCraft. Reaching this... View Article

Posted on March 2, 2018, 10:06 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Server News. 8 Comments

February 2018 Build of the Month Competition

Greetings! The first build of the month in many months, with entries ranging from a pagoda to a garden. For... View Article

Posted on February 24, 2018, 10:42 pm by Published by Maximus Terragon in PirateCraft Build of the Month, PirateCraft Build of the Month Winner. Leave ye` thoughts

Splice the mainbrace its a pirate Christmas!

Merry Christmas From PirateCraft From the whole team at PirateCraft we wish you all the very best for the holiday... View Article

Posted on December 24, 2017, 8:00 pm by Published by GodsDead in Events, PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Server News, PirateCraft Updates. Leave ye` thoughts

PirateCraft Advent Calendar 2017

Time to start opening your advent calendars! We are delighted to announce that advent calendars are making a return to... View Article

Posted on December 1, 2017, 10:55 pm by Published by Charlie in Events, PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Server News, PirateCraft Updates. 8 Comments

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Recent forum topic replies

North End of Claim Messed up by MABturquoise
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Discord

Join the PirateCraft Discord server! discord.piratemc.com

Teamspeak 3 Voice Server

Talk or chat with players and staff on our TeamSpeak server. You will need the TeamSpeak client then you can click the IP below.
ts.piratemc.com
For more information and to see a list of our channels with who's online visit our TeamSpeak page.