Indie survival SMP with custom dungeon mechanics. Budget available. Looking for someone to help me build this community from the ground up.
What Riftkeeper is (currently)
Riftkeeper is a custom survival SMP built around a single core mechanic: the main world (Groundstone) has no ores. The only way to get resources is to run into procedurally generated dungeons.
Every 6 hours, an Illager mage NPC called the Riftwarden opens a portal at Spawn to a procedurally generated dungeon world. The portal stays open for a few hours, then collapses, taking everything left inside with it. What you carry out is yours.
The server targets a small, tight-knit community of 10–20 players. The goal is quality over scale.
What is already built
This is not a concept looking for someone to take a chance on. The core systems are done:
- Procedurally generated maze and cave dungeons with tiered ore generation, exit compass, and loot tables
- Riftwarden NPC with a fully automated 6-hour ritual cycle, announcements, spell animations, portal open/close, player recall
- Hub world with portal system and cross-world teleport
- Groundstone overworld with ores removed and mob loot stripped, dungeons are the only source of materials
- Two-way Discord/Minecraft chat bridge with account linking via the custom Riftwarden bot
- Live status board and dungeon completion leaderboard
The server runs on Paper (Java 1.21.4) with entirely custom plugins. It is whitelisted and ready for a first wave of testers.
The role
I am the developer. I built this and I will keep building it. While I generally fare well in communities, I have been out of managing a Minecraft community for well over 5 years now. A lot has changed since then, and I need someone who knows what works right now.
The Community Manager I am looking for will help me out with everything that is not the technical side:
- Finding and onboarding playtesters
- Recruiting and coordinating builders and volunteer staff
- Promoting the server across relevant platforms
- Shaping what kind of community this becomes
What I am offering
There is budget available. If you are the right person, we can talk numbers.
If donations come in down the line, they get shared with the people who helped build this.
What I am looking for
Experience with Minecraft communities matters, but it is not the only thing. More important is that you have a clear idea of what makes a small server worth staying in, and that you want to be the reason that happens here.
Send me a message. Tell me about communities you have built or been part of, and tell me what you would do with Riftkeeper.
Discord: https://discord.gg/C44mezTKJq
- Type
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