MineCade and the first BorderSMP
MineTrade started life as MineCade, run with the content creator Zyro, who owned the server back then. It was the first BorderSMP: instead of everyone sharing one world, every team got a Minecraft world of its own.
That sounds simple, and it's what makes it hard. A normal server keeps a handful of worlds loaded. A BorderSMP has to keep one per team, all on the same server, all ticking while their players are online.
- 350+
- Players online at once
- 250
- Team worlds loaded at the same time
- 20 TPS
- With all of them loaded
- 1
- Minecraft world per team, on one server
Source: MineCade, at its peak
Source: MineCade, at its peak
Source: MineCade, at its peak
Source: MineCade core design
A core built for hundreds of worlds
We built MineCade on our own customized and optimized core, made for exactly this: creating, loading and ticking a world per team without the server falling over.
At its peak MineCade had 350+ players online, with 250 team worlds loaded at the same time, and it held 20 TPS. As far as we know, nobody has re-created that core since.
| Count | |
|---|---|
| Players online | 350 |
| Team worlds loaded | 250 |
What happened next
MineCade carried on as MineTrade. We stepped away when we took a temporary break from Minecraft, and the server is no longer running.
Timeline
MineCade
The first BorderSMP
Every team gets its own Minecraft world, on our custom core. Run with content creator Zyro, who owned the server.
MineCade
350+ players, 250 worlds
At its peak, 250 team worlds were loaded at once and the server held 20 TPS.
Later
MineCade becomes MineTrade
The server carried on under the MineTrade name.
Later
Stepped away
We stepped away when we took a break from Minecraft, and the server is no longer running.