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anarchy server

anarchy server noun: a player-run server or world with virtually no rules, allowing total freedom for actions like hacking, griefing, PvP, stealing, and exploiting, creating a chaotic, Wild West environment where survival is difficult and the goal is often to endure or exploit the lawlessness for personal gain.

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Noun

anarchy server (plural anarchy servers)

  1. (chiefly Minecraft) A player-run server or world with virtually no rules, allowing total freedom for actions like hacking, griefing, PvP, stealing, and exploiting, creating a chaotic, Wild West environment where survival is difficult and the goal is often to endure or exploit the lawlessness for personal gain.
    • ... the oldest-running “anarchy server,” 2builders2tools (2b2t). This server is essentially a multiplayer Minecraft environment where there are no rules. This anarchy has led to a whole swathe of media coverage and the assertion from at least one participant that “exploring 2b2t is like...2021, Eve, Martin Paul, Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy, page 45
    • The oldest and most infamous anarchy server is 2b2t, which launched not long after Minecraft, in 2010. Now over 20 terabytes in size, its world is a nightmare frontier of deadfalls, lava flows, trashed bases, and hate speech.2024, Mojang, chapter 3, in The World of Minecraft, page 50

Forms of anarchy server

pluralanarchy servers

Origin of anarchy server

From anarchy (“a state of lawlessness”) + server. Unrelated to the political philosophy of anarchism.

Questions about anarchy server

What does anarchy server mean?
Anarchy server means a player-run server or world with virtually no rules, allowing total freedom for actions like hacking, griefing, PvP, stealing, and exploiting, creating a chaotic, Wild West environment where survival is difficult and the goal is often to endure or exploit the lawlessness for personal gain.
What part of speech is anarchy server?
Anarchy server is a noun.
What is the plural of anarchy server?
The plural of anarchy server is anarchy servers.

Words near anarchy server in the dictionary

  1. anarchotyrant
  2. anarchotyrants
  3. anarchs
  4. anarchy
  5. anarchy of production
  6. anarchy server
  7. anarchy servers
  8. anarchy symbol
  9. anarchy symbols
  10. anareolate
  11. anargyroi

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