FOUNDERSVALE
Make your time
here count.
A Minecraft community survival world for builders, explorers, towns, trade and the projects that somehow get much bigger than originally planned.
play.foundersvale.com01A WORLD WORTH INVESTING IN
Build somewhere that has time to become a place.
Foundersvale is a survival world for people who like the part of Minecraft that happens after the first few nights. The towns, roads, farms, strange projects, shared infrastructure and familiar names that slowly turn a generated map into somewhere people actually know.
Claim your own piece of land and build alone if that's your thing. Work with other players on a town. Trade. Explore. Connect places together. Build something practical, something beautiful, or something completely unnecessary because you had an idea at 2 in the morning.
I'm not interested in wiping the map every few months just so we can call it a new season. There are no scheduled seasonal resets. I want to give the world enough time for places to develop, projects to get ambitious and the server to acquire a history of its own.
Come for Minecraft. Stay because the world starts to feel familiar.
02A COMMUNITY, NOT A PLAYER COUNT
I'd rather build a place where people recognize the names in chat.
Trade with someone. Help with their build. Start a town. Connect two settlements with a road. Build a shop. Organize something completely unnecessary.
Or ignore everybody, walk 15,000 blocks into the wilderness and build alone until somebody eventually discovers what you've been doing.
There isn't a correct way to play here. Just respect the world and the people sharing it with you.
03EXPLORE THE VALE
See how the world grows.
As Foundersvale develops, the map will become a living overview of the places people build here: towns, roads, landmarks, shared projects and the increasingly complicated routes between them.
Foundersvale will eventually have an interactive web map. It is not online yet, but the space is already here for it.
LIVE MAP COMING LATER04PLAYER ECONOMY
Your time and skills are worth something too.
Foundersvale has its own in-game currency to make trading and working together easier. Run a shop, sell resources at auction, hire someone for a project, or get paid for the work you're good at.
Most money moves between players. The economy is built around what people make, trade and do for each other, rather than endlessly printing coins through a grind.
Real money supports the server and the community around it. It can't be turned into in-game money or gameplay wealth. What you earn in the world stays part of the world.
05SERVER RULES
Keep it simple. Don't ruin the game for someone else.
Respect builds and claims
Don't grief, steal, deliberately damage another player's work, or look for technical loopholes around land protection.
Play fair
No cheating, hacked clients, duping, x-ray or exploits that give you an unfair advantage. If you find a serious exploit, tell us instead of building an economy around it.
Don't be a dick
Banter is fine. Harassment, hate, threats and repeatedly making the place miserable for somebody aren't.
Use some common sense
No rule list can cover everything. If you're deliberately causing problems, ruining the experience for others, or exploiting a loophole just because it isn't specifically mentioned here, staff can still step in.
06ROLES
Not everybody needs a fancy title.
Member
The normal Foundersvale experience. Build, claim land, trade, join projects and become part of the world.
Supporter
For people who choose to help with the real costs of Foundersvale. Recognition and carefully chosen extras, never purchased wealth or an in-game advantage.
Moderator
Trusted community members who can help players, deal with grief and step in when something needs sorting out.
Admin
Trusted people responsible for server management and the technical side of keeping Foundersvale running.
07SUPPORT FOUNDERSVALE
Let Foundersvalers help pay for Foundersvale.
Foundersvale is an independently run community, with help from a few friends on moderation and community work. A lot of care goes into keeping the place maintained and running because I genuinely enjoy building it.
Running it still costs real money. Hosting, backups, supporting infrastructure and related services together come to roughly €55 a month. My first goal is simply to build a strong community and ask them to help cover those costs.
You never have to pay to play here. Supporters may get recognition, cosmetics or carefully chosen conveniences as a thank-you, but real money never buys in-game currency, resources or gameplay power.
If contributions eventually go beyond the bills, most of that gives me room to put more back into Foundersvale: hosting, hardware, storage, services, events, community projects or whatever genuinely improves the place. And if the server grows enough that some of that support also compensates the considerable time I put into running it, I think that's reasonable too.
I may be the one running Foundersvale, but I'm doing it for everyone who chooses to make this world their own.
This isn't a business built to squeeze money out of players. It's a community I want to keep healthy, improve over time, and hopefully build with more people as it grows.SUPPORT FOUNDERSVALE
One-time or monthly support. No gameplay power for sale.
08THE BORING STUFF MATTERS TOO
I keep separate backups.
A backup only helps if one problem cannot take the live world and every copy with it. Foundersvale therefore keeps separate copies away from the live game environment.
I'm not going to dress the setup up as something it isn't. A lot of it comes from the same hands-on interest in servers and hardware that made me want to run Foundersvale in the first place. I maintain it, check it and keep improving things as the community grows.
There is more than one layer of protection behind the world, but the operational details stay private. The important part for players is that losing one system should not automatically mean losing Foundersvale with it.
That still isn't a promise that nothing can ever go wrong. In a serious failure, some recent progress could be lost. Backups are there to make recovery possible, not to pretend failure is impossible.
Backups aren't a promise that nothing can ever go wrong. They're simply part of taking people's time and builds seriously.
09NO ROSE-COLORED GLASSES
Nothing is forever.
I'm not going to promise that Foundersvale will still be running in ten or twenty years. Nobody can honestly promise that.
Servers change. People move on. Life changes.
If we get a time and a place where a group of people can create something great together, that's already worth a lot to me.
What I can promise is that I'm interested in giving this world a real chance. If people enjoy being here, build things together and turn Foundersvale into a place worth maintaining, I'm willing to keep investing my time, money and effort into it.
And if it lasts much longer than any of us expected? Even better.
THE VALE BY THE NUMBERS
A world gets more interesting when it has a history.
These will become live aggregate figures once the analytics feed is connected. No individual player analytics will be exposed here.
10KEEP BUILDING THE VALE
There is always more of the Vale to build.
Foundersvale is shaped by the people who spend their time here. Every town, road, shop, project and completely unnecessary monument adds another piece to the world.
What Foundersvale becomes isn't decided in advance. It's built by the people who call it home.
Maybe you'll start the next town. Maybe you'll connect two places that have never been connected before. Maybe you'll join a project that's already bigger than anyone planned, or disappear into the wilderness and create something entirely your own.
Come leave your mark.
Join Foundersvale on Discord
Meet the community, ask questions and see what's happening in the Vale.
JOIN FOUNDERSVALE ON DISCORDCome play
Jump straight into the world.
play.foundersvale.comFAQ / QUICK REFERENCE
Looking for something specific?
A few straightforward answers about joining and playing on Foundersvale. This section is intentionally easy to expand as more questions come up.
What edition is the server?
Foundersvale currently runs as a Minecraft Java Edition survival server.
What's the server address?
play.foundersvale.com
Do I need to join Discord?
No. You can play without living in Discord. It is simply the easiest place for questions, announcements and community discussion.
How do land claims work?
Land claiming is available to protect your builds. More detailed claim instructions will be added here once the final player-facing setup is settled.
Future FAQ
Bedrock / console access
Future FAQ
Homes, teleporting and travel
Future FAQ
Shops, auctions and trading
Future FAQ
Map access and privacy
Future FAQ
What happens after grief?
Future FAQ
Client mods and allowed tools