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) |
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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.
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2021 is the peak year by a wide margin: 41,067 joins (~112/day average), 2,735 distinct names, 434 regulars.
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2022 halves it (13,518), 2023 quarters it (4,569). The long tail sets in: 1,750 → 514 → 207.
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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.
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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
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Aug–Nov 2025: no ScrubCraft logs exist in the archive for those months; treat that window as unknown.
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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.
