ScrubCraft Player Numbers — Timeline

Compiled 2026-08-26 from ScrubCraft's server console logs, Dec 2020 – Aug 2026. One "join event" = one player login recorded by the server. 
 The record opens on Dec 6, 2020, right after a large server upgrade . ScrubCraft was already an established community by then — players reference being around since October 2020 — so the early numbers below describe the server at full strength, not its very first days. 
 By year 
 
 
 
 Year 
 Join events 
 Distinct players 
 Regulars (≥5 joins) 
 Core (≥20 joins) 
 
 
 
 
 2020 (Dec 6–31, record begins) 
 6,088 
 538 
 117 
 55 
 
 
 2021 
 41,067 
 2,735 
 434 
 175 
 
 
 2022 
 13,518 
 609 
 169 
 80 
 
 
 2023 
 4,569 
 248 
 78 
 38 
 
 
 2024 
 1,750 
 133 
 39 
 15 
 
 
 2025 
 514 
 83 
 16 
 6 
 
 
 2026 (Jan–Aug) 
 207 
 64 
 11 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec 2020 was the hottest recorded month the server ever had — 6,088 joins in 26 days (~234/day), 45–86 distinct players per day. It was never matched again. 
 
 2021 is the peak year by a wide margin: 41,067 joins (~112/day), 434 regulars. 
 
 2022 halves it (13,518), 2023 quarters it (4,569), and the long tail follows: 1,750 → 514 → 207. 
 
 No activity was recorded Aug–Nov 2025 — the record resumes Dec 2025. 
 
 2026: quiet but alive — 207 joins through Aug, version 26.2, players still logging in as of Aug 23, 2026. ScrubCraft remains the longest-running survival server in the community's lineup. 
 
 Top 12 months by join events 
 
 
 
 Month 
 Joins 
 Distinct players 
 
 
 
 
 2020-12 
 6,088 
 538 
 
 
 2021-02 
 5,074 
 581 
 
 
 2021-01 
 5,070 
 225 
 
 
 2021-04 
 4,943 
 318 
 
 
 2021-05 
 4,893 
 391 
 
 
 2021-03 
 4,479 
 647 
 
 
 2021-08 
 3,162 
 382 
 
 
 2021-06 
 2,679 
 253 
 
 
 2021-07 
 2,450 
 215 
 
 
 2021-09 
 2,419 
 183 
 
 
 2022-04 
 2,292 
 192 
 
 
 2021-12 
 2,256 
 170 
 
 
 
 Nine of the twelve busiest days ever are from December 2020 : 
 Top 12 days by join events 
 
 
 
 Day 
 Joins 
 Distinct players 
 Context 
 
 
 
 
 2021-04-25 
 367 
 42 
 [Seeker]-rank hide-and-seek week 
 
 
 2020-12-24 
 363 
 71 
 First Christmas Eve on record 
 
 
 2021-05-08 
 354 
 53 
 Tournament build-up 
 
 
 2021-04-24 
 334 
 42 
 Rank-announcement buzz 
 
 
 2020-12-17 
 328 
 71 
 Opening month of the record 
 
 
 2020-12-27 
 309 
 56 
 Opening month of the record 
 
 
 2020-12-18 
 297 
 64 
 Opening month of the record 
 
 
 2020-12-12 
 287 
 86 
 Wedding mania weekend 
 
 
 2020-12-29 
 283 
 58 
 Opening month of the record 
 
 
 2020-12-16 
 274 
 63 
 Opening month of the record 
 
 
 2020-12-13 
 274 
 62 
 Wedding mania weekend 
 
 
 2020-12-15 
 272 
 62 
 Opening month of the record 
 
 
 
 About these numbers 
 
 One join event equals one player login recorded by the server. 
 Distinct-player counts include alt accounts, name variants, and test connections — the Regulars (≥5 joins) and Core (≥20 joins) columns are a better sense of how many people actually played. 
 The record starts after the December 2020 server upgrade and runs to Aug 2026, with no data for Aug–Nov 2025. 
 Counts are drawn directly from ScrubCraft's own archived console logs.