2020 — 2025
The server is offline for good. This page is what it left behind — and the Discord is still very much alive.
Open call — looking for a team to reboot itThe whole orbit
It started because a kid was bored in a pandemic. It ended five years later with a staff team spread across four countries and a Discord that still hasn’t emptied out.
2020
Born out of sheer boredom during the height of COVID — one server, a handful of friends, and no plan whatsoever. Nobody involved expected it to last the summer.
The first world was a flat survival map on a box in a bedroom, and the name lasted about a year before it needed to sound like something bigger than one person.
2021
A proper name, a proper identity: a magenta gas giant with gold satellites swinging around it. Run as a non-profit under the Gravitor Gaming Foundation — every donation went straight back into keeping the lights on.
The Gravitor Gaming Foundation was the official-sounding wrapper around a very small non-profit: donations in, server bills out, nothing left over.
2021 – 2024
Survival and Skyblock, a forum, a wiki, a store, and a moderation team watching the chat around the clock because it was a server for kids and that mattered more than it was fashionable to admit. Staff in the UK, the Netherlands, Portugal and Brazil, none of whom had ever met.
At its widest the rota covered the UK, the Netherlands, Portugal and Brazil — moderation that worked precisely because nobody was in the same time zone.
2025
Life got busy, as it does. There was meant to be a closing party and there wasn’t time for one — so this is it instead: the last thing Gravitor Network ever shipped.
The last thing the old site ever showed was a broken video player sitting on top of the goodbye letter. This page is the correction.
From the founder · 2025
After 5 years, the journey of Gravitor Network has come to an end. What began in 2020 during the height of COVID became a place full of creativity, friendship, and fun. Over time, we tried many ideas, shared countless adventures, and built a community that meant so much to me.
Life has become very busy these days, and I feel it’s about time to say goodbye. I had hoped to host a closing party to celebrate everything we’ve achieved together, but unfortunately time did not allow for it. Still, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who ever joined the server — you are the reason Gravitor was so special.
Though Gravitor Network is closing, the memories and connections made here will always live on. I wish you all the very best in life, and I hope you carry a little piece of Gravitor with you wherever you go.
Roll call
Nine people, four countries, one Discord, zero payroll. Give a card a click.
Mantis64Founder & Owner · UK
Hosting, servers, configs, permissions, the website — and making sure players behaved. Ran the whole thing.
Flip →Ran the operation end to end: the boxes it lived on, the server configs, the plugin setup, the permission tree, the website, and keeping an eye on how players behaved. Still the owner, and still hosting.
GoldenAmaanCo-Founder · Left 2025Seat now open
Started it at home during lockdown and ran the community side for five years.
Flip →A bored kid in a pandemic made a Minecraft server, and it outlasted the lockdown by four years. He wrote the goodbye above, and has moved on to other things — which is exactly why his seat is open.
DemwanManager · Retired 2023
Plugins and scripting. Cheerfully admitted he couldn’t build.
Flip →“My best skills are setting up plugins and scripting. And the worst is building, that is why I am a Manager. My favourite game mode is probably Survival — the thing I like most about it is that you can play with your friends.”
AndreasAdmin
Kept everyone in line, helped players out, and did the actual admin work. Plays as MenorAstuto these days.
Flip →The one who handled the unglamorous half of running a server: sorting out players, settling arguments, and keeping the place civil.
FlameAdmin
Admin — and Golden’s cousin in real life.
Flip →Proof that Gravitor was always half a family project. Ran admin duties on a server started by his cousin.
GummyPower20Senior Moderator · Retired 2023
Kept the chat clean on a server built for kids.
Flip →Senior moderator on a server whose whole pitch was that it was safe for younger players. Chat was watched around the clock, and that was the job.
IvzukiModerator
On the moderation rota, watching the chat.
Flip →Part of the team that made a kid-friendly server actually kid-friendly, rather than just advertised as one.
StormCatDragonBuilder
Built the things everybody else spawned into.
Flip →Spawn areas, hubs and set pieces. The parts of a server people remember the look of years later.
OJ5Retired Staff · Portugal
Thiago — plugins, pixel art, and a stated weakness for PvP.
Flip →“I’m Thiago, I’m from Brazil but I actually live in Portugal. I love learning about plugins and building things like pixel arts. I’m pretty bad at skripting but I’m trying to get better. Btw I love PvP games hehe.”
Multiplayer
You can press it. It won’t work. That’s rather the point.
Click and hold. You know how this works — and if you let go early, it heals right back up, same as it always did.
0 blocks broken
Not the end, necessarily
The world above is archived and that server isn’t coming back. But the domain, the name, the Discord and five years of hard-won configuration are all still here — and so is a host. What’s missing is the person who ran it — and the team around them.
The arrangement, plainly
That’s the whole deal, and it isn’t a negotiation. I’ll keep it online and help where I can. Everything that makes it a server people want to play is yours.
Not necessarily four people. But somebody has to cover each of these, and “I’ll learn it” isn’t the same as having done it. The first is the founder’s old role, and it’s the one everything else hangs off.
Somebody has to be in charge of it day to day: set the direction, hold a volunteer team together, make the calls and then answer for them. Not the owner — that stays with me — but the person everyone else looks to, and the one I’d deal with. GoldenAmaan did this for five years from a bedroom in the UK, and he’s moved on. Replacing him is the hardest part of this, and the seats below are no use without it.
Permissions, economy, anti-grief, the glue between a dozen plugins that all want to own the same event. The unglamorous half.
Growth, server listings, socials, and retention. This is the seat that actually decides whether a server lives, and it’s the one everybody leaves empty.
Gamemode design, spawn, progression — a reason to log in on the second day, not just the first.
This one starts with me. I hold the hosting and the server panel, I pay the bill and I keep the lights on. What I am not is your on-call engineer — nobody is ringing me at 2am because a plugin fell over. Think of me as a consultant: I’ll advise, I’ll dig into the awkward stuff, and I’ve got five years of knowing what breaks and why. Day-to-day operational trouble is your team’s to work through.
It doesn’t have to stay that way. Panel access grows with trust, in stages — and for someone who has genuinely proved themselves, that eventually means real control over the server panel. You earn the keys; you don’t get handed them on day one.
Bring a proposal, not a hello. It doesn’t need to be long — it needs to be specific, and it needs to show me you’ve done this before. If it answers these six things, it gets read properly.
To be straight about it: I’m listening, not handing anything over. I’ll host it, I’ll help where I can, and I’ll back a team that can genuinely run it — but running it is your job, and you’ll have to show me you can. If the right people don’t turn up, this page stays exactly as it is, and that’s a perfectly good ending too.
Still online
The Discord never closed. If you were ever part of Gravitor, the door is still open — come and say hello. And if you think you’ve got the team to build the next one, this is where to find me: DM Mantis64 with a proposal.
discord.gravitor.net