Ethereal started as a Minecraft server in 2011, back when it was called Minemee. Some of us were teenagers then. We're not anymore, but a lot of the same people are still around, and honestly that's most of what we're proud of.

The short version: we're a gaming community. The longer version is that we're a group of people who met through games, stuck around longer than anyone expected, and ended up building something that has quietly outlasted most of the servers we used to bounce between as kids. People show up for the games and stay for the friends, or the other way around. Either works.

We don't have a mission statement and we're not trying to grow into anything bigger than what feels right. We just want a place where it's easy to log in, find someone to play with, and feel like you're somewhere specific, not on yet another anonymous Discord with 40,000 strangers.

If you're into Minecraft, our server has been running in one form or another since the beginning and there's a long-lived world waiting for you. If you're into something else, our Discord is where most of the day-to-day lives. People post what they're playing, organize sessions, share screenshots, argue about patch notes.

Whether you remember the Minemee days or you found us last week, you're welcome here. Show up, say hi.