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Purple Prison — is it up right now?

Prison ranks with mining, PvP warps and a player economy; 1.7-1.21 clients. I've been pinging purpleprison.net:25565 every ten minutes since August 10, so everything below is something I measured, not something they told me.

Paste it exactly as it is — no http:// in front. Phones like to add one; Minecraft answers “Invalid server address” to it. Minecraft also asks for a Server Name: that is only a label in your own list, so type anything — “Purple Prison” does fine.

What I actually know

• 714 people are playing there right now.
• It's busiest around 15:00 UTC and quietest around 07:00 UTC.
• It answered 96.6% of my checks over a week.
• The longest it stayed down in one go was 40 minutes, on August 22.
• The most I've ever seen there is 10,000,000 players, on August 21.

When people actually play there

Average players by hour, over the last 14 days. Times are UTC.

How to join from your phone

1. Copy the address above.
2. Open Minecraft, tap Play, then the Servers tab.
3. Scroll to the bottom and tap Add Server.
4. Name it anything, paste purpleprison.net as the address, port 25565.

Note the port — 25565, not the usual 19132. Miss it and the server just won't show up.

In short

• Free to join. All you need is Minecraft itself.
• Modes: prison, economy, PvP.
• Chat there is mostly in English.
• The server itself sits in North America.

Others a bit like it

• Hypixel 36,479 online
• The Hive (EU) 18,582 online
• The Hive 18,565 online
• The Hive (NA) 18,562 online
• CubeCraft 13,525 online
• Lifeboat 7,447 online

This server isn't mine — I only list it, and its chat, rules and staff are its own. What I can vouch for is the measuring: one packet every ten minutes, and if it goes quiet for half an hour it drops off the list by itself.