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About

What is CrabSMP?

A Bedrock Lifesteal SMP where you fight for hearts, hunt bounties, and run the auction house. Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Mobile, PC. Free to play.

  • 24/7Uptime
  • 10K+Players
  • FreeTo play
  • AllDevices

How it works

Four ideas. One world.

Bedrock Native

Built for Bedrock from the ground up. Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Mobile, and Windows 10/11 players all share one world and one economy.

Lifesteal

Start on 10 hearts and climb toward a 30 heart cap. Every kill steals a heart, every death gives one away. Lose your last life and you are down until a teammate revives you.

Player-Run Economy

List loot on the auction house, post coin bounties on your rivals, and send coins straight to friends. Prices are set by the people playing, not by staff.

Progression, Not Paywall

Crate keys come from voting, playtime milestones, and daily rewards. Daily quests and votes earn points toward 100 battle pass tiers a season. Donations keep the lights on, nothing more.

Philosophy

The Crab philosophy.

We built CrabSMP because we were tired of servers that treat players like wallets. Here survival means actual survival. You build, you fight, you lose hearts, you adapt. The economy is yours. The stories are yours. We just keep the lights on and the lag low.

  • Free To Play. Always.
  • Community Votes Matter.
  • Backend Updated Weekly.

Under the hood

What makes it tick.

Under the hood it is a carefully tuned ecosystem of systems built to work together. Here is what is running while you play.

Factions

Found a faction for 10,000 coins and recruit a crew of up to eight, or eighteen with upgrades. Pool coins in a shared bank that can earn daily interest, set faction homes, and spend the bank on upgrades: more members, wider spawner range, Speed and Haste for the whole crew. Roles run from member to leader.

Lifesteal & Revives

Hearts are the prize. Win fights to push toward a 30 heart cap. Lose your last life and you are out until a teammate gathers revive souls and builds a revive beacon to bring you back.

Player-Run Economy

An auction house, coin bounties, player to player transfers, and a coin shop. Prices move with the playerbase, and staff never undercut the market.

Crates, Quests & the Battle Pass

Roll crate keys earned from voting, playtime, and daily rewards for loot. Complete daily quests for battle pass points and climb a hundred tiers every season, on the free track or the premium one.

Smart Spawners

Mine mob spawners, stack them together, and let them bank loot and XP in their own storage while you stay nearby. The whole stack is managed from a clean in game menu.

Teleports & Homes

Set homes, send TPA requests, jump to warps, or wild teleport into untouched land. Ranks add /back, straight to your last spot.

Joining

How it actually works.

No whitelist. Pick your device and you are three steps from playing.

  1. Open Minecraft Bedrock, then Servers, then Add Server.
  2. Server IP: play.crabsmp.net
  3. Port: 19132 (leave it at the default).
Server address play.crabsmp.net
  1. Method 1: Join through the Realm code below and accept the invite.
  2. Method 2: Add JoinCrabMC as a friend on Minecraft, wait 30 seconds, then join their world.
  3. Method 3: Use BedrockTogether with the IP and port above.
Realm code vDruZhrrg9W64Zs Join Realm
  1. On any device, add the gamertag below as a friend in Minecraft.
  2. Wait about thirty seconds.
  3. Join the world from your Friends tab.
Gamertag JoinCrabMC

  • First thing to do

    Your one time starter kit is handed to you the moment you join. Type /wild to teleport into fresh land, then link your Discord account in game to claim the bonus Discord kit.

  • Game acting up?

    Restart Minecraft before asking staff for help. It fixes most connection problems on its own.

  • Sharing Wi-Fi with a sibling?

    Open a ticket in our Discord support channel so we can whitelist both accounts, otherwise the anti-alt system will flag you.

Where your money goes.

CrabSMP is free to play and always will be. Ranks are quality-of-life and cosmetics, they never touch combat. Gear kits are a different story: they hand you a real advantage, and we would rather say that than pretend otherwise. Either way, every penny goes straight into hosting, upkeep and development.

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