During the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the team at the RGU Computing Society wanted to help keep the RGU community together by creating a Minecraft server to bring everyone together with some community fun and games. It was a great success and could be even better with more computing resources. For more details check out the press release and this RGVIEW blog post .

While the Minecraft Server provided a community space for many, it appears not everyone saw it that way. In a malicious act to sabotage server, player(s) burned the starting area to the ground using buckets of Lava, killing any new players who join the world. Taking it one step further, deploying an army of bobbing armour stands in water to render the server unplayable with lag. Thus, rendering the server inaccessible to all. The server was closed, the Saboteur(s) score 2 points, until next time...

Armed with the knowledge of how to bring a server down and combat it, we have turned the new server up to 11 this year with the launch of the RGUCraft network. Now with a larger pre-rendered survival world to keep gameplay running smoothly, Bedrock edition compatibility, and player land claim. Using high performance infrastructure with 9✕ more memory over 3✕ compute power allows for even more players than before!

At RGU Union's Student Achievement Awards (SAA), RGUCraft won Volunteering Project of the Year recognising the significant volunteering effort by all who make the project possible against the three other amazing projects: RGUHack, 'Hope' by RGU Christian Union and Kaim Shop. To recognise this great achievement, the award trophy is to be built in the Creative world.

Learn more about the Student Achievement Awards

On Wednesday the 12th of February 2024, we soft-relaunched RGUCraft with 15 players from the Gaming and Computing societies in Minecraft 1.21.4 to explore the "The Garden Awakens" update. With this relaunch came a new website and increased server capacity as well as reduced maintenance complexity in the back. This is our largest update to the server to date, and we're excited to run more fun events in these new lands in the future!

We need your help to promote RGUCraft to as many students as possible. As students run RGUCraft for students, we rely on your support to share it with the RGU community. You can also encourage your favourite Societies , Interest Groups , and others to get involved by sharing this website with them. Together we can build anything, from all the country flags of RGU students to so much more!