Frequently asked questions
What was TWiTcraft?
TWiTcraft was the official Minecraft server of the TWiT.tv podcast network, run by and for the network's chatroom community. It lived at mc.twit.tv, opened to the public in April 2012 (after an earlier private “ChatCraft” period that began in 2011), and closed on February 6, 2015. At its peak it had a town called Leoville with a flea market, a department of transportation, a sky tram, a museum, malls, its own podcast and monthly town-hall meetings, and over its life more than five and a half thousand different people logged in.
Who ran it?
The server was founded and administered by Curley (in-game name panntz) and moderated by a rotating group of volunteers from the community — VanteS, Robrotheram, asim0v, TehRage, ipodparf, blendermf, Cheeetozz, LeonimuZ, t2t2 and others. It was featured on OMGchad's OMGcraft episode 146. It was never an official TWiT product in the sense of being staffed by the network; the network lent its name and its chatroom.
When did it run, and why did it close?
Public from April 2012 to February 6, 2015. The world was reset once, in January 2014, for Minecraft 1.7; the October and December 2013 snapshots of the old map are preserved alongside the final worlds. The server ran down through 2014 as the administrator's attention moved elsewhere and the community's requests to hand it over went unanswered; on January 30, 2015 Curley announced the shutdown, backed up every world and released the files for one week. The history page tells that part plainly.
What does this archive contain?
Everything that was released, and everything that could be reconstructed from it: all the world files (the final January 2015 worlds plus the October and December 2013 snapshots, twenty-two worlds in all, and a reconstruction of the Oct-2013 spawn without its Halloween decorations); a complete static copy of the phpBB forums (1,321 threads, about 8,500 posts, 2012–2015); the town-hall and podcast audio with transcripts; browsable 3D web maps of every world; and the pages on this site, which are built from the server's own files — player files, statistics, signs, chests, books, maps, pets.
How do I visit the worlds?
Two ways. In a browser, open the web maps. In Minecraft: Java Edition (any current version), add the server twitcraft.dio.gg — you arrive in the original lobby, and each portal takes you to one world at one date. Everyone is in adventure mode with flight, so nothing can be broken. If you played on the original server, logging in with the same name hands back your old inventory, armour and ender chest the first time you enter each era, and the guide book you are given knows where you last stood and where your bed was.
Can I download the files?
Yes: the original release is at Download the archive (about 6.5 GB), exactly as Curley published it, plus the two 2013 snapshots. The datasets behind this site's pages are at /data/ as JSON. Curley's own terms were “you guys are welcome to do whatever you please with the maps and files.”
Where did the files come from?
When the shutdown was announced, community members mirrored the archive within hours. Three of those four mirrors are gone; the French one, run by Immortal Tools, was still serving the files eleven years later, and that is where everything here was recovered from in 2026. The forums were preserved as a static crawl. Nothing was edited: the worlds are the released files, upgraded only as far as a modern server requires to load them, and any change made for the archive server (a portal hub, the spawn reconstruction) is labelled as such.
What is not preserved?
The server's plugin folder was never released, so everything that lived in plugin databases is gone: coin balances, chest locks and who owned which chest, the block-change log, permission ranks, ban reasons. The IRC channel, the Mumble server and the 2014 shop-guide site are gone too. Where the pages here say “probably” — whose storage room this was, whose shop that was — it is inferred from signs and beds, and the evidence is shown.
I played there. Is my old inventory really public? Can something be removed?
The world and player files were published by the server's administrator in 2015 for anyone to use, and everything on these pages is read from those public files; nothing private was added. If something here concerns you — a book you wrote as a child, a name you no longer use — say so through the Add a Memory form and it will be dealt with.
Who made this site?
Dio (in-game diocia), who played on the server from 2012, ran the Black Market beside the Flea Market, argued on the forums for it to be handed to people who would maintain it — and, eleven years later, went looking for the files. It is an unofficial fan archive with no affiliation to TWiT.tv or Mojang. Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang / Microsoft.
How do I cite or link to this?
Link to the page you used; every page has a stable address, and map links open at exact coordinates. The name is spelled TWiTcraft (the forums also used TWiTCraft and TwitCraft, and the pre-2012 server was ChatCraft). For the datasets, the data index describes each file and how it was produced.
The pages
The Full History — the narrative, April 2012 to February 2015, with sources. Landmarks & Places — the builds and events, with map links. The Last Day — the final 24 hours from the player files.
The Players — all 5,544 names. Server Records — leaderboards from the statistics files. What They Carried — every player's last inventory. Pets & Spawners — every pet and its owner.
The Library — the books written in-game. Player Maps — the paper maps players drew. The Economy — every shop sign and price. The Vault — every chest, counted.
Forum Archive — the phpBB board, every public thread. Add a Memory — send screenshots, stories and corrections. Data — the datasets.