Blocktopia

Hi everyone,

After many wonderful years, we're making a significant change to the forums. We're so thankful for all the incredible contributions you've made, from sharing your amazing Minecraft creations and server ideas to creating fully immersive and realised mafia games before anything like Among Us became popular. This community has been a fantastic hub for all things Minecraft, gaming and history.

Starting on August 8, 2025, we will be transitioning the forums to read-only mode. This means you'll still be able to access and read all of the existing discussions and resources. However, you won't be able to create new posts or reply to old ones. The forums will remain as an archive of our community's valuable conversations and shared knowledge.

Government overreach and how it affects us

I wish I could continue to allow the forums to function as they have for 14 years...

Hey fellow Blocktopians!

As an end of year special event, we're bringing back Lava survival! All your favourite maps are there, and updated to 1.19 so you can use all the latest blocks! Check /meltable list in game for a full list. We'll be opening our doors at 8pm UTC on Saturday 17th December. You can convert to your timezone here.

While a re-release of a lava survival server was deprioritised over the summer, there had been a lot of work put into the server at that point, and we had a lot of requests to bring it back. So while it may not be the...

Welcome to EscapeRestarts Monthly Newsletter! This is where we round up everything important that happened in the previous month, so that you all know what is going on and that things are happening. We are going to start off with some general community news below:

Rebranding to Blocktopia
We have been called EscapeRestart for a good handful of years now, and while the name is not a bad name by any means - the staff team have all come together and decided to make a community vote to see how everyone feels about going back to the name Blocktopia.

Make sure to check out the thread where we go a bit more into detail, as that is where the current community vote is being held.

Staff...

Details
After discussing between our administrator team, we have decided to ask the community how they feel on going back to the name Blocktopia for our community. We also brought this up to controllers, and the general consensus was a yes, but we also want to ask the community on how they feel. We already currently own the correct domain to make this process possible as a safeguard, but it does not mean we have a solid decision.

Why?
The thing about the name EscapeRestart is it is essentially synonymous with our failed rebrand and expansion into other games. While the name isn't exactly a bad name, it's definitely one that has some controversy tied around it.

Not only that, but since we are planning on sticking to Minecraft the name "EscapeRestart" just doesn't make too much sense, as it has no relations to Minecraft in anyway. Another thing I noticed...

Welcome everyone! I hope you all have been enjoying the TownySMP. It's definitely got a few tweaks, but hopefully a lot of them will be addressed here. This update is themed around Exploration and Economy, as per the title. I have a handful of new features coming to the server, so lets break them down below!

Jobs
Introducing a new way to make money, Jobs! By default, players can select one job to start with and level up. You can access the jobs menu by typing /jobs in-game.

As you rank up, you will be able to join more jobs consecutively, as a way to earn more money. Your pets can also earn you money if they fit the bill, like killing mobs...

Introduction
Welcome to EscapeRestart's Towny SMP! Towny is a survival experience that encourages players to build up towns to protect themselves and their land. This is a fairly laid-back survival experience, but there's a ton of things for players to do, explore, and grind!

Rules

• Griefing / Stealing is allowed when it isn't claimed
  • While you can, please don't utterly destroy / decimate - do what you need to take the items and leave.
• PvP is allowed outside of unclaimed areas
• Towns cannot steal / raid / kill each other unless established enemies
• Please keep chat respectful
• Make sure you are following our Community Guidelines / TOS
• Constant harassment of specific players / groups is not allowed...

Introduction
I know a lot of you were very happy about the event SMP and saddened to know that it wasn't exactly a long running SMP. That's why we have decided to run a temp SMP until our current SMP is up and running. This isn't a super advanced SMP by any means, but it has basic functions and is built around towny - a plugin that encourages community-built towns. There is also going to be a few other neat features to keep players occupied though, more info will be coming with the official release thread.

Rules
The full list of comprehensive rules will be released with the official release thread, but as always make sure you are following our community guidelines.

Note about 1.19 Hardcore Event
If you're wondering why the event just...

Event Details

It's finally time to say goodbye to one of our longest running SMP's. We will be celebrating by doing the classic, blowing everything up!

When you join the server on August 7th, you will have the ability to set your own gamemode, enter creative, and use whatever blocks / items you want! Always wanted to blow up that on persons base who stole your sheep? Now is the time to do that!

We will also just be hanging out on our Discord, talking about old memories from the server, and if anything else pops up we will lead with that as well! This is definitely a more laid-back event, but I hope ya'll can enjoy the final moments with SimpleSMP.

Closing Statement

SimpleSMP was really fun to make, and I'm really happy that so many people enjoyed the server - albeit its shortcomings. I learned a lot of...

Welcome to EscapeRestarts Monthly Newsletter! This is where we round up everything important that happened in the previous month, so that you all know what is going on and that things are happening. We are going to start off with some general community news below:

Community Revamp / Revitalization Project
If you haven't heard about it yet from our emails, or the forum post - EscapeRestart is undergoing A LOT of changes. These all stem because the community has definitely been in a bit of a lull recently, and I want to pick everything back up with a running start. If you want to read more about the revamp, I recommend reading this thread here and also...

Information
Since the 1.19 Hardcore Event is still currently ongoing, we will be going with a more laid-back event this week, which will be another movie night! Come kick back, grab some popcorn, and come enjoy one of the movies we vote on with the community! This will be hosted on our Discord in a voice chat, so please make sure you are in our Discord so you don't miss it! You can also check your interest for the event here!

Event Date: July 30th, 2022 @ 6PM UTC

Movies
We will be voting on 3 movies, all made by Studio Ghibili to watch during the event. These are...

SimpleSMP has been running for quite some time now, and at this point a good portion of that time has been spent unmaintained / updated. I think it's a pretty good time to close it down, especially because there is a new SMP being worked on, and we will be having events to hold off until the servers come to fruition. There's no point in keeping it up at this point now, and I'm sure mostly everyone agrees with me. Heres the details:

Closing

I will be shutting down SimpleSMP on August 6th, just so I can save backups of everything permanently before the closing event. The server will remain open to the public up until that point, so feel free to do anything you've felt you need to do now. I will be releasing a world download once I get everything backed up as well, so don't worry about you losing builds or anything - everything will ultimately be there...

Hello everyone! Hope you are all having a wonderful day - I'm happy to announce our first Minecraft Event server since our new Weekly events initiative, With Consequences. This takes Hardcore Survival and adds a few twists to it to make it just a bit harder and make it a bit more fun on the replayability scale. Let's get into the specifics!

Gameplay

• Every time you die, you lose one (1) heart permanently.
  

  • If you have more than one (1) heart on death, you will respawn.​
  • Once you lose all of your hearts, you are banned from the server for 24 Hours.
    

    • Upon re-joining, if it is still ongoing, you will be back at...​

As we begin to move on to Phase 3 and the SMP team works on SMP, I will be working on slightly updating and modernizing our Creative server. Fortunately, I've already done a lot of work on the server in the past few years, along with the help from other staff so there isn't much that has to be done. I still want to take this as an opportunity to make the server better, more engaging, welcoming, and fun for players though. I'm going to detail a few things below where I think the Creative server could shine a bit better, feel free to make suggestions on what you feel you can in the comments below.

You can also join our Discord and be in more active discussions using the #creative-discussion channel!

Staff
If you are at all interested in helping with the creative server, whether that be as a Server Moderator...

While we have our main Minecraft servers, we host a ton of events, from special Minecraft servers to other games, and even movie nights! We try and plan events weekly for the community to join in and get together to have fun together. There's always something for somebody going on, so make sure to come check them out!

Event Calendar

Most of our events are hosted on our Discord, and that is also where you can find our Event Calendar! It's located on the top of our channel list and is pretty hard to miss! This wonderful calendar will tell you about all our upcoming events, and all you have to do is click on it to learn more! If there is an event that is upcoming, it will display it as a banner.

Movie Nights / Voice Chat

When...

Hello everyone, I'm back with some more updates! This time is more about our Forums than anything, but also pretty much concludes the end of Phase 2 of our commitment plan. Let's dig into the details!

Forum Updates

The forums were looking a bit dated (again) but really just needed some light TLC to get things back up to normal. Honestly, the forums aren't a huge priority anymore considering Discord is definitely our main hub, but I still think it has it's uses, and it is looking nice is ideal for our community.

• Forum Theme
  • NavBar was cleaned / tidied up
  • User login / alerts was moved to NavBar
  • Logo & Search Centered
  • Sub-Forums viewable on nodes
  • Icons were updated for certain items
  • New Logo / FavIcon
• Node...

I understand that revamping this community has been tried multiple times, so I am laying out a commitment plan that details what I and other staff plan to do in the following year or so to help revamp and revitalize the community. You can read it all below! This was what was discussed in the latest community meeting, and you can also find a download for meeting notes / overview as well!

Note: this is not a full comprehensive list, but rather a general plan to make the community aware of larger changes.

Phase 1: Assessing & Research
Est. time: 2 Weeks (June 20th - July 3rd)

• Assess access to staff and help
  • Make channel, ping...