Anarchy Minecraft Servers for 1.17

No rules, no claims, and nobody coming to help

Anarchy servers have no rules, no claims, no staff intervention and usually no bans. Griefing is allowed, cheating is generally allowed, and the only protection you have is not being found. 2b2t has run this way since 2010, and everything else in the category gets measured against it.

Play accordingly. Do not build near spawn, travel out along a highway for tens of thousands of blocks before you settle, never share coordinates, and assume any screenshot you post can be reversed into a location. Duping and lag machines are part of the culture here rather than an exception to it.

The practical barriers are the queue and the client. Popular anarchy servers have queues measured in hours, and most regulars run a movement mod for the long trips out. Older servers stay on old versions deliberately. Read the server wiki first; it usually explains the ruined map you are about to land in.

1.17 is deliberately half an update

Caves & Cliffs Part I shipped in June 2021 with the blocks but not the terrain. Copper, amethyst geodes, deepslate, candles, the spyglass, the lightning rod, powder snow, axolotls, goats and glow squid all arrived. The new cave and mountain generation was held back to 1.18, six months later.

That split is worth knowing before you join. You can mine copper and amethyst, but the world still generates the old way, with a floor at Y=0 and the narrow cave systems of earlier versions. Ore distribution follows the old curve too, so diamonds sit at the depths people learned in 1.16 rather than down near the new bedrock.

Very few servers stay here by choice now. The ones that do are normally running a modpack or a plugin that never got updated, or they are an established world that did not want a visible 1.18 terrain seam through the middle of it. It plays fine — it is just an unusual place to start.