SkyWars

SkyWars is a minigame where players spawn in separate islands with an equipped kit of their choosing, and their goal is to gather resources from the nearby chests, fight other players, and be the last man standing.

Personally, one of my favorite Minecraft minigames is SkyWars and I have always felt the desire to add it to the Ultimis Network, but I wasn't very sure if it would receive enough attention that would make the time and work invested in it, worthwhile. This is because it no longer gets the attention it used to and has seen decline over the past few years, which is evident from several large Minecraft servers that support SkyWars. Yet, I still was eager to make this game because I knew I would learn a lot from it, so I did what any ambitious developer would do...

In October 2022, I started working on SkyWars, despite knowing it might never make it to production. After three months of about 1-2 hours of work each day, the project was finished! Here's a short video recorded by one of our staff members during an internal testing session:

(The fall was definitely on purpose)

In April 2023, the project was as anticipated, discontinued. After some internal discussions with the team, we've decided to make this project open source in June 2024. You can check out the source code on GitHub.