Starting today, when one player hugs another, both players will see hearts appear over their heads for approximately 5 seconds. This helps to give a visual indicator so that you can more easily find each other but also to help reaffirm the action. Only the 2 players involved in the hug will see the hearts, all other players do not.

We've also made it so that you can now hug your pets, or virtually anything else of yours too.

Now you can do /hug cow, and the closest cow to you, within range, will display hearts above it. This works with pig, chicken, wolf, cat... even creeper, zombie... just make sure you spell the name of the entity correctly, for example: /hug armor_stand

Now players can show their pets some love by giving them a hug and their pets will return that love!

Update your Minecraft launchers to version 1.21.11!
If you don't know how, check https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360034754852-Change-Game-Version-for-Minecraft-Java-Edition

In January 2025, we reached 18k, then in December, we got to 19k... now, just 2 short months after that, Autcraft is officially at 20,000 names!

I still remember, placing those first few blocks, before I ever even told anyone I was doing anything... and thinking to myself... "I'll be lucky to even ever get 100 people onto this thing but if it means they can play without bullies, it'll be worth it."

I never imagined it would come this far, and all of the opportunities and challenges that it would bring, and how much of an impact this little idea of mine would have on the entire world.

Thank you so much for being a part of this with us, and believing in us, and supporting us, and everything. This has been the most incredible 12 years and we still have so much to look forward to!

Thank  you so much!!

This Friday night, when the server restarts at midnight, we will begin updating the server to version 1.21.11.

This means that after the restart, you won't be able to sign in for a little while as we perform the update, but when it is done, you'll be invited to connect to the server using version 1.21.11 to take part in all of the new features.

If you need help figuring out how to load Minecraft Java into different versions please refer to Minecraft's information here: https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360034754852-Change-Game-Version-for-Minecraft-Java-Edition