McMMO Minecraft Servers for 1.20

Skills that level up while you play

McMMO adds RPG skills to survival. Mining, woodcutting, excavation, herbalism, fishing, swords, axes, archery, unarmed, acrobatics, taming, repair and alchemy each level as you use them, and each unlocks an ability you trigger by right-clicking with the matching tool in hand.

In practice it changes what your hours are worth. Super breaker turns a mining trip into a much larger haul, tree feller drops a whole spruce at once, and a high swords level with serrated strikes shifts PvP enough that most servers have to balance around it. Party chat and shared experience make it a group activity rather than a solo grind.

Ask two things before settling in: the experience rate, and whether power level is capped. A server at ten times vanilla rates is a different game from one at standard rates, and an uncapped leaderboard on a two-year-old world means the top ten are out of reach. Some servers also disable McMMO inside PvP arenas.

Where 1.20 servers sit now

Trails & Tales was the archaeology update: brushes, suspicious sand and gravel, and pottery sherds you assemble into decorated pots. It also added cherry groves, camels, the sniffer, bamboo and cherry wood sets, hanging signs, the chiselled bookshelf and armour trims, which together gave builders more to work with than any release since the Nether Update.

Two of its point releases mattered more to owners than the headline features. 1.20.2 changed how clients negotiate a connection, and 1.20.5 replaced item NBT with data components, which broke a great many plugins and forced a long wave of updates. Servers that parked on 1.20.4 usually did it for exactly that reason.

Plenty of servers still run 1.20 because their plugin stack works and their players do not mind. Expect something stable and well tested, with no trial chambers, no crafter and no mace. Check whether newer clients are allowed in through ViaVersion before you go and add an old profile to your launcher.