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

Build of the Month competition: July/August 2016

Welcome back! Yes, it’s been a while since we had one of these, but now Build of the Month is... View Article

Posted on August 11, 2016, 8:02 pm by Published by Charlie in Building, PirateCraft Build of the Month. 3 Comments

Regenerated The End middle island, Updated warps and chairs!

Changelog Regenerated the middle island for the end Chairs are back Deleted the old legacy warps, renamed a few, added... View Article

Posted on August 10, 2016, 4:56 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Updates. 1 Comment

PirateCraft Minecraft 1.10.2 update and world expansion

PirateCraft 1.10.2 update and World Expansion

PirateCraft has been updated to 1.10.2 and the world has been expanded! I would like to start off with a... View Article

Posted on August 8, 2016, 3:22 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Server News, PirateCraft Updates. 9 Comments

PirateCraft now compatible between minecraft clients 1.9 – 1.10

I have updated PirateCraft to allow Minecraft clients from 1.9/1.9.1/1.9.2/1.9.3/1.9.4 all the way up to 1.10 to connect, we are... View Article

Posted on June 14, 2016, 11:29 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Updates. Leave ye` thoughts

Monday Changelog

A small changelog of edits made over the weekend; Elytras restocked at the cove and an animated dragon head is... View Article

Posted on June 6, 2016, 1:40 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft News. Leave ye` thoughts

Updates: /warp ships; schooners are back on sale, with sailable demos!

Its been a very, very long time coming for me to get around to making these work again, the issue... View Article

Posted on June 3, 2016, 1:19 am by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft Updates. Leave ye` thoughts

Updates: New Chat events, New player Menu, Chairs are back & /back now has a warmup

First of all, I have decided it might be better to try putting my changes into the blog posts so... View Article

Posted on June 1, 2016, 12:08 am by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft Updates. 3 Comments

Overhaul of Crews!

Giant Crew update is now live! Wednesday evening we put a lot of work into transitioning from our old crews... View Article

Posted on May 28, 2016, 7:11 pm by Published by GodsDead in PirateCraft News, PirateCraft Updates. Leave ye` thoughts

February/March 2016 Build of the Month Competition

Reintroduction of Build of the Month! Welcome back! The long-awaited return on Build of the Month is here! The return... View Article

Posted on March 20, 2016, 5:22 pm by Published by Charlie in Building, PirateCraft Build of the Month, Settlements and Towns. 9 Comments

Houses: Better builds

Ahoy thar, ye landlubbers! My last blog post was about ships but I realise that not everyone wants to sail,... View Article

Posted on November 26, 2015, 3:00 pm by Published by Charlie in Building, Settlements and Towns. 3 Comments

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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.