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Case study

ZeroPvP

A ranked Minecraft duels server where every kit has its own ladder and nothing you can buy changes a fight. I made the plugins, the website and the Discord bot for it.

Open zeropvp.xyz

The problem

I wanted a practice server I would play on myself. That meant two things. Your rank should say how good you are with each kit, not one number for everything. And money should never buy an edge: no stronger kits, no faster queues for paying players.

What I built

ZeroPvP runs on Java 1.21.11 at play.zeropvp.xyz. The duels plugin, the website and the bot are mine.

  • A ladder per kit. Twelve of them, from Sword, Axe and Mace to Netherite Pot, Cart and Vanilla, plus 2v2. Ten placement matches put you on a kit's ladder.
  • Fifteen tiers and global points. Every tier you hold adds points, from 1 for LT5 to 60 for HT1, and the sum is your place on the global board.
  • A cup every week. Single elimination, one kit a week, every Saturday at 18:00 Berlin time. Winners go into the Hall of Fame.
  • UHC Games. 200 players, one life, no natural regeneration and a closing border.
  • A website with the live data. Leaderboards, live matches, tiers, server stats and 90 days of server status, all from the server itself.
  • A cosmetic store. Zero and Zero+ ranks bring kill effects, armour trims and name colours. Coins earned by playing buy the same things. Nothing changes a fight.
The zeropvp.xyz home page: the ZEROPVP logo, Every kit has its own ladder, the server address with Copy, Play ranked and Discord, and the number one player
The zeropvp.xyz home page, November 2026.
The ZeroPvP leaderboard: live standings, a kit hotbar and the number one on every kit with their tier
The leaderboard, with a tier per kit.
The ZeroPvP Hall of Fame: the global top three standing on gold, iron and copper blocks with their tiers and points
The Hall of Fame podium.

Numbers

Players online is at the top of this page when the feed answers. The rest:

Ladders
12
Tiers
15
Placement matches per ladder
10
Players in one UHC Games round
200
Things you can buy that change a fight
0

What's next

Players. The ladders, the tiers, the weekly cup and UHC Games all run; what the server needs now is people in the queues. Bedrock players are next on the list: the website already says “Bedrock soon”.

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