Explore the archive
Everything on this site was read out of the server's own files — the worlds, the player files, the statistics, the forums — and put back where people can find it.
The story
What They Got Up ToTwenty-five stories of what the community actually did — the races, the contests, the companies, the disasters and the memorials — each traced to a post, a line of chat or a sign. The Full History9 April 2012 to 6 February 2015, from the forums, the town-hall recordings and the world files. Landmarks & PlacesA field guide to the builds, cities, malls and events, with map links and forum sources. The Last DayJanuary 30, 2015: who was on, where they stood, and who logged out last. About & FAQWhat TWiTcraft was, who ran it, how to join the archive server, where the files came from.Things that happened
Trivia NightSeven quiz nights in the autumn of 2013, rebuilt question by question with the scores — and the 377-question bank behind them. The Wither Attack9 September 2013: somebody logged in as the admin. The wrong man blamed, the honour system, and the dragon nobody ordered. Worth KeepingAsked which builds were too important to lose, ten people answered — and five of them refused to name their own. The GeocacheA chest hidden somewhere on the map every month of 2013. Six of the logbooks are still in them.The people
The Players5,544 names, April 2012 – February 2015 (ChatCraft accounts included): the top 100 by hours, the first arrivals, the full roll call. Server Records65 leaderboards from the statistics files: the most hours, the longest walk, the most diamonds. What They CarriedEvery player's inventory, armour and ender chest at the moment they last logged out. Pets & SpawnersEvery dog, cat and horse and who owned it; the named creepers; 57,912 mob spawners.What they left behind
The Library210 books written in-game, readable page by page in the game's own font. The Chat400,000 lines of in-game chat, June 2013 to March 2014: searchable, browsable by day, player by player. The DatabaseEverything above in one SQLite file: search every chat line, forum post, book and sign at once, run your own queries, or download it. Player Maps680 paper maps players drew, and the explored extent of each world stitched from them. The Economy7,262 shop signs: what a diamond cost, the TWiTMART price list, the markets, the ATMs. The ShopsEvery shop sign and price, in the JSON format VanDerProtofsky wrote for it, running in the viewer built to read that format. The VaultEvery chest opened and counted: 26 million items, the diamond census, the great storage rooms.Community
Forum ArchiveEvery public thread of the phpBB board, 1,321 topics from 2012 to 2015. Add a MemoryScreenshots, stories, corrections — anything to add to the record. Mark Your BuildPut your own house, shop or monument on the web map — paste the map link, name it, done. Data downloadsThe datasets behind these pages, as JSON, for researchers and the curious. CreditsWho backed it up, who mirrored it, and how it came back.Join the archive server
The old worlds are back online as a walk-through museum. Nothing can be broken, nothing needs to be built — just wander.
- Open Minecraft: Java Edition (any current release — the server accepts modern clients).
- Multiplayer → Add Server → paste
twitcraft.dio.gg. No port needed. - You'll spawn in the Lobby. Each portal is labeled with a map and a date — step through to visit that world as it was.
What to expect
Everyone is in adventure mode with flight enabled, so you can fly around builds and go through doors but can't place or break anything. Use /spawn or /lobby from anywhere to get back to the portal hub, and /warp to jump straight to a world. Mobs don't spawn, it's always daytime, and PvP is off — same as the last week of the original server.
Played here before? Log in with the same name and your old inventory, armour and ender chest are handed back the first time you enter each era's worlds, and the guide book you're given knows where you last stood and where your bed was.
The game server and the 3D maps run on their own machine, separate from this website, and are occasionally offline for maintenance. If the server doesn’t answer, try again later — the archive pages, forums and downloads here stay up regardless.
Archive maps
Every world in the archive, browsable in 3D from your browser (no Minecraft needed) or reachable by portal in the lobby. The 2013 and final survival maps are dotted with labelled landmarks — open a map and click a marker to jump to that build's story.
new_survival Final · Jan 2015
Open web map →outworldland Final · Jan 2015
Open web map →lobby Final · Jan 2015
Open web map →somewhereelse Final · Jan 2015
Open web map →flatland Final · Jan 2015
Open web map →survival Oct & Dec 2013
Open web map →pvp Oct 2013
Open web map →Download the archive
These are the exact files released when the server closed, plus two earlier snapshots. Mirror them — that's how they survived the first time.
Final maps — backed up January 30, 2015 (Spigot 1.7.5)
| File | What it is | Size |
|---|---|---|
| new_survival_final.tgz | Main survival world (overworld) | 826 MB |
| new_survival_nether_final.tgz | Its Nether | 31 MB |
| new_survival_the_end_final.tgz | Its End | 1.5 MB |
| outworldland_final.tgz | Second survival world | 50 MB |
| outworldland_nether_final.tgz | Its Nether | 4.9 MB |
| outworldland_the_end_final.tgz | Its End | 154 KB |
| lobby_final.tgz | The hub world | 184 MB |
| somewhereelse_final.tgz | Creative world | 8.6 MB |
| flatland_final.tgz | Flat build world | 528 KB |
| spigotroot.tgz | Server root: spigot.jar (#1387 / MC 1.7.5), configs, 88 WorldEdit schematics. No plugins folder was ever released. | 22 MB |
Earlier snapshots — 2013
| File | What it is | Size |
|---|---|---|
| twitcraft-10-16-13.zip | Full server root, Oct 16 2013: pvp, survival (+Nether/End), lobby, somewhereelse — plus chatvival and fertalized, the worlds of ChatCraft (the 2011–12 predecessor, not part of TWiTcraft; download-only, not on the archive server or the web maps) | 3.86 GB |
| survival-12-05-13.zip | The survival overworld, Dec 5 2013 | 1.45 GB |
| survival-end-nether-12-05-13.zip | Its Nether and End, Dec 5 2013 | 138 MB |
Total ≈ 6.5 GB. Worlds are Anvil format and load in any modern server or single-player; they'll be upgraded on first load. Grab everything at once: wget -r -np -nH -R "index.html*" https://twitcraft.dio.gg/archive/
Also preserved: the phpBB forums (static copy, every public thread — browse by forum index or the original board), the TWiTcraft Podcast and the Town Hall recordings on the Internet Archive, plus machine transcripts of all seven surviving recordings.
History & credits
TWiTcraft was TWiT.tv’s official Minecraft server, run by and for the network’s chatroom community. It opened on 9 April 2012 and ran for almost three years — through the ChatCraft days, five episodes of its own podcast, a dozen town halls, and an appearance on Chad Johnson’s OMGcraft.
- Apr 9, 2012The server opens at
mc.twit.tv— 175 accounts log in on the first day — first cut together on Curley’s own desktop, then moved onto donated Server Central hardware. The Flea Market — its first commercial district — follows in May or June; the TWiTcraft Podcast starts in June and the first Town Hall is held on 8 December. - 2013The busiest year: 4,321 forum posts, the survival and pvp worlds at their peak, the Diamond Grief incident in September, and the decision in October to reset everything for Minecraft 1.7.
- 2014Server moves to Spigot 1.7.5. new_survival and outworldland become the main worlds. Featured on OMGcraft episode 146.
- Jan 30, 2015Curley announces the shutdown, backs up every map and posts the archive at
mc.twit.tv/archivefor one week. - Feb 6, 2015Server, forums, IRC and Mumble go offline.
- 2026The archive is recovered from a surviving community mirror and brought back here.
"As far as I'm concerned you guys are welcome to do whatever you please with the maps and files I offer — host em yourself, play on em in single player, blow things up… Be awesome to each other." — Curley, January 30, 2015
The detailed account, built from the forum archive, the town hall audio and the world files: the Flea Market, the Department of Transportation, the town halls, the Diamond Grief, the 1.7 reset, the Plank of Shame, and the coordinates of everything worth visiting.
Credits
This archive exists because of the people who made copies. VanDerProtofsky, Robrotheram, Gamealition and Immortal Tools mirrored the files within hours of the shutdown announcement in February 2015 — three of those four mirrors are long gone, and the Immortal Tools copy is the one that survived eleven years and made this site possible. SkyerCorp kept his IRC client’s logs of the #twitcraft channel — 631 days of the server’s own chat relay, June 2013 to March 2014 — for twelve years and gave them to the archive in 2026, and NgtFlyer added the only surviving fortnight from 2012, the server’s first spring; The Chat is their contribution, and it is the only record of what anyone said on the server.
Curley backed up every world and released them with no conditions attached, which is the single decision that made preservation possible at all. VanteS moderated to the last day and the forums are close to unanimous that he stayed long after everyone else had stopped. Chad “OMGchad” Johnson and the ChatCraft regulars started the whole thing, and TWiT.tv kept the machine running for three years after the show that justified it had been cancelled.
The ending was not gracious, and this archive does not pretend otherwise — the community spent the last nine months asking for the server to be handed to someone who would maintain it, and never got an answer. That part of the story is told in full here, from the threads themselves.
This is an unofficial fan archive and is not affiliated with TWiT.tv. Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang / Microsoft.