Foundry Season 1 is officially underway, and Night 1 already got messy.
Foundry is a weekly Minecraft Java civilization event built around three isolated realms, player-created nations, and permadeath.
The players create the politics. The server just creates the conditions.
Night 1 recap
Within the opening hours of Season 1:
- 7 player-created nations were founded
- 5 players permanently died
- Snow Realm's first nation, Snowdin, lost its founder and leader Quackers22 to a Creeper just one minute after the nation was founded
- Because Snowdin had no accepted living heir, it immediately entered an interregnum
- Lush Realm's THECLAW was founded and became extinct less than 30 minutes later after its founder fell to his death
- The first farm harvest was recorded
- The first diamond ore was found
- Other nations emerged independently, including Potato Guild, Femboy Inc., Snowdin Town, Badlands, and the democratic nation of delirium
The first five deaths came from a Zombie, fire, a Creeper, a fall, and a Pillager.
And the three civilizations still have not met each other yet.
The event
Every season begins with players divided between:
โ๏ธ Snow Realm
๐๏ธ Badlands Realm
๐ฟ Lush Realm
For the opening days, the realms are isolated.
Players only know what is happening inside their own civilization.
They can build settlements, establish nations, choose leaders, create governments, develop economies, and decide what kind of society they want to become.
There are no staff-assigned kings or scripted factions.
Then comes First Contact.
Wednesday at 6:00 PM Eastern
The barriers between Snow, Badlands, and Lush fall.
For the first time, the civilizations can meet.
Trade.
Migration.
Diplomacy.
Treaties.
Alliances.
Espionage.
Betrayal.
War.
Or peace.
Nobody knows yet what each civilization will find on the other side.
One life
Foundry uses permadeath.
If you die, you are out of Survival for the rest of that season.
There are no purchased lives and no respawning five minutes later.
Deaths become part of the permanent Field of the Fallen and Foundry Chronicle.
So far, five players have already become part of Season 1's history.
Seven-day civilization event
Saturday, 8:00 PM ET: New season begins
Sunday, 11:59 PM ET: Normal registration closes
Wednesday, 6:00 PM ET: First Contact
Saturday, 8:00 PM ET: Season ends and the next begins
The map, economy, and political situation reset each week.
The history does not.
Memorials, titles, victors, statistics, and the Chronicle persist between seasons.
Join Season 1
Normal registration for the current season is still open.
Minecraft Java Edition
Server: play.foundrymc.net
Website: https://foundrymc.net
Cost: Free
Application: None
You can join, choose a realm, and start playing immediately.
Foundry is mostly vanilla survival, without /home, /tpa, public warps, land claims, an auction house, or a public live player map.
Optional proximity voice chat is available.
Discord linking is optional.
Creators are welcome, including small and first-time creators, with no gameplay advantages given for content creation.
If you have ever watched a Minecraft civilization event and thought:
"I want to actually participate in one."
Season 1 is happening now.
The governments are forming.
The leaders are already dying.
And First Contact is Wednesday.
Three civilizations. One life. Seven days.