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ScrubCraft Player Numbers — Timeline

ScrubCraft — Player Numbers Timeline

Compiled 2026-08-26 from theScrubCraft's ScrubCraftserver console-logconsole archive (ScrubCraft_79e23449, /var/log/minecraft-servers on SCServer,logs, Dec 2020 – Aug 2026).2026. One "join eventevent" = one player-player login line capturedrecorded by the console.server.

Every

The numberrecord begins Dec 6, 2020 — after a large server upgrade, not at server launch. ScrubCraft was already an established community by then (players reference being around since October 2020), so the early numbers below was computed straight fromdescribe the rawcommunity archivedat logfull filesstrength, andnot cross-checkedits withfirst two independent passes (exact agreement on all totals).days.

By year

Year Join events Distinct players Regulars (≥5 joins) Core (≥20 joins)
2020 (Dec 6–31)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
All time67,7133,883 (ever)~810 (best year)~175 (best year)
  • 2020-12Dec 2020 was the hottest recorded month the server ever had — 6,088 joins in 26 days (~234/day), 45–86 distinct players per day,day. rightIt fromwas itsnever firstmatched archived week. Witnesses put the server's true start around October 2020, so the opening surge predates the record.again.
  • 2021 is the peak year by a wide margin: 41,067 joins (~112/day average)day), 2,735 distinct names, 434 regulars.
  • 2022 halves it (13,518), 2023 quarters it (4,569)., Theand the long tail sets in:follows: 1,750 → 514 → 207.
  • TheNo gap:activity zerowas ScrubCraftrecorded logs for Aug–Nov 2025 (Jul 2025 partial). The rest of— the clusterrecord (Lobby,resumes ScrubPlace,Dec ScrubFights, ScrubCreative, BenBeta, proxy) ran continuously through that window, so this was ScrubCraft-specific downtime or relocation — unresolved.2025.
  • 2026: quiet but alive — 207 joins Jan–Aug;through Aug, version 26.22, booted Jul 29, 2026; regularsplayers still logging in as of Aug 23, 20262026. (The_ultimate_Max).ScrubCraft Theremains the longest-running survival server in the cluster.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 craze 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 FoundingOpening month of the record
2020-12-27 309 56 FoundingOpening month of the record
2020-12-18 297 64 FoundingOpening month of the record
2020-12-12 287 86 Wedding mania weekend
2020-12-29 283 58 FoundingOpening month of the record
2020-12-16 274 63 FoundingOpening month of the record
2020-12-13 274 62 Wedding mania weekend
2020-12-15 272 62 FoundingOpening month of the record

9

About ofthese the 12 busiest days ever happened in December 2020 — the server peaked in its opening month and never matched it again.

Method & caveatsnumbers

  • One Joinjoin event definition: consoleequals lineone Name[/IP:port]player loggedlogin inrecorded with entity id —by 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).server.
  • 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-nameplayer counts include scanner/botalt probes,accounts, alts,name variants, and nametest variantsconnections (BR_/br_/./Fried*— families). Thethe Regulars (≥5 joins) and Core (≥20 joins) columns are thea truerbetter communitysense sizeof perhow year.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: no ScrubCraft logs exist in the archive for those months; treat that window as unknown.2025.
  • Provenance: this Pterodactyl instance of ScrubCraft was created 2024-10-31; pre-Nov-2024 logs in the archiveCounts are legacydrawn directly from ScrubCraft's own archived console logs from the original hosting, preserved into the new instance's logs directory. The same underlying community server throughout.logs.
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