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ScrubCraft Player Numbers — Timeline
# ScrubCraft — Player Numbers Timeline
_Compiled 2026-08-26 from the ScrubCraft console-log archive (`ScrubCraft_79e23449`, `/var/log/minecraft-servers` on SCServer, Dec 2020 – Aug 2026). One **join event** = one player-login line captured by the console. Every number below was computed straight from the raw archived log files and cross-checked with two independent passes (exact agreement on all totals)._
## By year
| Year | Join events | Distinct players | Regulars (≥5 joins) | Core (≥20 joins) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (Dec 6–31) | 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 |
| **All time** | **67,713** | 3,883 (ever) | ~810 (best year) | ~175 (best year) |
- **2020-12 was the hottest month the server ever had** — 6,088 joins in 26 days (~234/day), 45–86 distinct players per day, right from its first archived week. Witnesses put the server's true start around October 2020, so the opening surge predates the record.
- **2021 is the peak year** by a wide margin: 41,067 joins (~112/day average), 2,735 distinct names, 434 regulars.
- **2022 halves it** (13,518), 2023 quarters it (4,569). The long tail sets in: 1,750 → 514 → 207.
- **The gap:** zero ScrubCraft logs for **Aug–Nov 2025** (Jul 2025 partial). The rest of the cluster (Lobby, ScrubPlace, ScrubFights, ScrubCreative, BenBeta, proxy) ran continuously through that window, so this was ScrubCraft-specific downtime or relocation — unresolved.
- **2026:** quiet but alive — 207 joins Jan–Aug; version 26.2 booted Jul 29, 2026; regulars still logging in as of Aug 23, 2026 (The_ultimate_Max). The longest-running survival server in the cluster.
## 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 |
## Top 12 days by join events
| Day | Joins | Distinct players | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-25 | 367 | 42 | [Seeker]-rank hide-and-seek craze week |
| 2020-12-24 | 363 | 71 | First Christmas Eve |
| 2021-05-08 | 354 | 53 | Tournament build-up |
| 2021-04-24 | 334 | 42 | Rank-announcement buzz |
| 2020-12-17 | 328 | 71 | Founding month |
| 2020-12-27 | 309 | 56 | Founding month |
| 2020-12-18 | 297 | 64 | Founding month |
| 2020-12-12 | 287 | 86 | Wedding mania weekend |
| 2020-12-29 | 283 | 58 | Founding month |
| 2020-12-16 | 274 | 63 | Founding month |
| 2020-12-13 | 274 | 62 | Wedding mania weekend |
| 2020-12-15 | 272 | 62 | Founding month |
9 of the 12 busiest days ever happened in **December 2020** — the server peaked in its opening month and never matched it again.
## Method & caveats
- **Join event definition:** console line `Name[/IP:port] logged in with entity id` — the one join-log format present across the entire archive (Dec 2020 → Aug 2026). A second join line format (`X joined the game`) only appears from Jun 2021 onward as an additional print per login; it is **not** added on top (no double counting).
- **Verification:** totals were computed twice independently from the raw gz files (loose-pattern awk pass and per-file Python pass) — exact agreement on 67,713 total events.
- **Distinct-name inflation:** unique-name counts include scanner/bot probes, alts, and name variants (BR_/br_/./Fried* families). The **Regulars (≥5 joins)** and **Core (≥20 joins)** columns are the truer community size per year.
- **Aug–Nov 2025:** no ScrubCraft logs exist in the archive for those months; treat that window as unknown.
- **Provenance:** this Pterodactyl instance of ScrubCraft was created 2024-10-31; pre-Nov-2024 logs in the archive are legacy console logs from the original hosting, preserved into the new instance's logs directory. The same underlying community server throughout.
