How to make a Minecraft Death Swap server
A Minecraft Death Swap server teleports everybody into each other’s positions every few minutes, with no say in it, until only one person is left alive. On JetRift you make one by choosing Death Swap, naming it, and sending your friends the address. It takes about ninety seconds, with nothing to install, because the swapping happens on the server. It runs Minecraft 26.2 on Java Edition.
How a round goes
Everybody spawns in an ordinary survival world and plays it normally. Every three minutes, a countdown starts. When it reaches zero everyone is somewhere else, standing exactly where somebody else was a moment ago.
The game is not really the swap, it is the thirty seconds before it. That is when somebody realises they are on a one block pillar over a ravine, and that shortly it will be your problem instead.
Starting a round
- Create a Death Swap world and send your friends the address.
- Run /deathswap start once everybody has joined.
- Play. Build something to stand on, or build something for somebody else to fall off.
- Last person alive wins, and the round ends itself.
What makes it work
Nobody ever stays where they were. Everybody moves on every swap, which sounds obvious until you use a plain shuffle and somebody is left in their own spot, spending the round convinced the server is broken.
The countdown is announced at thirty seconds and again in the last five, because the warning is most of the fun.
What it costs
Nothing while JetRift is in early access. No credit card, three worlds per account, and a hundred and fifty hours a month across all of them. The world sleeps when nobody is on it and wakes up when somebody joins.
Make one now. Free, no card, and about ninety seconds from here to an address you can send your friends.
Start a worldCommon questions
How many people do we need?
Two at the very least. Three or four is where it comes alive, because you never know whose trap you are about to inherit.
How long is a round?
Usually twenty to forty minutes. It ends on its own when one person is left, which makes it a good mode for an evening where nobody wants to start something that lasts a fortnight.
Can we change how often it swaps?
Yes. Three minutes is the usual game, and the interval can be set anywhere from fifteen seconds to an hour from the panel.
What happens if somebody logs out?
They are out of the round. Otherwise a game would wait indefinitely for somebody who has gone to bed.