Quality and biome origin
Ores are stamped with the biome they were mined in. A diamond pulled from a glacial peak forges differently than one from the deep dark, and that origin feeds into the stats of the finished gear.
BLACKLIGHT SMP
Survival, reforged.
A handcrafted survival server with real depth. Forge your own weapons and armour, explore a living world, build with your faction, and play together whether you are on Java or Bedrock.
What is Blacklight?
Blacklight is a survival SMP built from the ground up to give vanilla Minecraft a real sense of progression. You mine ores that remember the biome they came from, forge them into weapons and armour with their own quality and stats, claim ancient ruins, navigate by the stars, and trade in a player driven economy.
It runs on Paper for Minecraft 26.1.2 with Terralith world generation, and Java and Bedrock players share the exact same world. Everything you read about here is a custom system written for this server, not a pile of off the shelf plugins.
2Editions, one world
300+Forgeable variants
∞Ways to play
Play your way
Java and Bedrock, one server
Thanks to Geyser and Floodgate, Blacklight welcomes both editions on the same map. Play on PC, console, phone or tablet with the same economy, the same friends and the same progress. Every menu and chat message has a Bedrock friendly version, so nothing is ever locked behind Java only controls.
Java
blacklight-network.de
Bedrock
blacklight-network.de : 19132
Forging and Metallurgy
Real smithing, not a crafting grid. Build a multiblock forge, bring your metal up to heat, strike it into shape on the anvil, and quench it at just the right moment. Every piece you make carries its own quality, material and origin, so no two blades are ever quite the same.
- 1
Heat
Fire up the forge and watch the heat stages climb. Too cold and the metal will not move, too hot and you ruin the batch.
- 2
Strike
Swing your Forge Hammer to shape the piece. Good timing builds progress and pushes the quality higher with every hit.
- 3
Quench
Finish in water, oil or brine. Each one pulls the result in a different direction and locks in the final quality tier.
Gems and sockets
Slot up to three gems into a weapon or tool. Echo crystals, void shards, pearl cores, rubies, sapphires and emeralds each tune your gear toward a different build.
Runes, instability and corruption
Engrave runes of flame, frost, ward, void, echo, poison or lightning for raw power. Push too far and instability and corruption start to creep in, so every rune is a gamble worth weighing.
Repair and reforge
Repair restores durability for a cost and slowly wears down the repair cap. Reforge rerolls the quality entirely, but it can shatter your sockets and runes in the process.
Relic rituals
Assemble an altar, complete the ritual without interruption, and bind a true relic. These are the rarest pieces of gear the server can produce.
A full history
Every forged item remembers who made it, what it is made of, how it was quenched and the quality it earned. Your best work becomes a name people recognise.
The forged arsenal
Dozens of unique weapons, tools and armour pieces, each with its own custom model from the Blacklight resource pack. Find the style that fits the way you fight and mine.
Weapons
DaggerShortswordLongswordSaberRapierChain BladeBattleaxeHalberdWarhammerMaceSpear
Mining tools
Excavation PickPrecision PickHeavy HammerTunneling Pick
Armour
HelmetChestplateLeggingsBoots
Gems
Echo CrystalVoid ShardPearl CoreRubySapphireEmerald
Runes
FlameFrostWardVoidEchoPoisonLightning
The resource pack is optional. If you skip it the gear still works exactly the same, you just see vanilla models instead of the custom ones.
Recipes and custom items
Blacklight adds a whole shelf of craftable items on top of vanilla. Two of them start your smithing journey, and the rest open up exploration, travel and quality of life.
Forge Hammer
Shaped recipe
IronIronStick
ForgeHammer
Your main smithing tool. Strike heated metal on the anvil to shape it and raise its quality.
Forge Oil
Shapeless recipe
Honey
Bottle + Coal
ForgeBottle + Coal
Oil
One of the three quench options. Oil pulls the result toward a different quality profile than water or brine.
More craftable items
Astrolabe
Read the night sky and get a bearing to the nearest ancient ruin.
Dungeon Compass
Opens an Expedition for your party, and is used up when you enter.
Cartographer's Quill
Survey the land and place waypoint markers as you go.
Waypoint Marker
Pin a spot to your map so you can always find your way back.
Rift Prism
Tune into nearby rifts and track their shards.
Faction Home Scroll
Bind a home and warp back to it later.
Grave Key
Recover a grave that is not your own when you are allowed to.
Ruin Key
Stake your claim on an ancient ruin.
Grove Potion
Brewed from the glow flowers found in hidden groves.
Grove Candle
A grove crafted light with a little ambient magic.
Efficiency V & VI
Enchanted books that push your mining tools past the vanilla Efficiency cap.
Unbreakable Golden Tools
A five piece golden set (sword, axe, pickaxe, shovel, hoe), each unbreakable.
There is plenty more in the recipe book too: stackable half slabs for loads of block families, handy block conversions, a light block, custom sandwiches and a rename voucher.
Exploration
The world rewards the curious. The aurora shimmering behind this page is a real in game effect, so the sky you see here is the sky you will see on the server.
Ancient Ruins
Track down crumbling ruins, read their lore tablets, and claim one to earn a steady passive income. Hold it against anyone who wants it for themselves.
Rifts
Unstable rifts tear open across the map. Fight the mobs that pour out and gather rift shards and fragments across rising tiers of difficulty.
Star Navigation
Craft an astrolabe, gaze up at the stars, and read a true bearing toward the nearest ancient ruin. Old school navigation with a magical twist.
Groves
Stumble into hidden groves of glow flowers, each with their own events and the ingredients for grove potions and candles.
Cartography and Map Boards
Build cartographer tools, drop waypoint markers as you travel, and pin your maps onto shared map boards back at base.
Ambient Magic
The world breathes. Northern light auroras, glowing oceans, drifting fireflies, cherry petals on the wind, and the heavy dread of the deep dark.
A world worth digging into
Blacklight runs on Terralith world generation, so the biomes are dramatic and varied. And because the forge cares where your metal came from, the ground you stand on actually matters.
Biome stamped ores
Break an ore and it remembers its home biome. Volcanic regions might give you extra quartz, glacial peaks can drop a bonus diamond, amethyst fields shed shards, mountains offer emeralds, and lush forests sometimes hand you a second helping. That stamp follows the metal all the way to the anvil and shapes the gear you forge from it.
VolcanicGlacial
AmethystMoonlight
SkylandsMountain
Lush ForestMagical Desert
SakuraLavender
Ambient magic
Aurora
Northern lights ripple over the night sky.
Ocean bioluminescence
The water glows after dark.
Swamp fireflies
Tiny lights drift through the marshes.
Plains wind
Grass and petals move with the breeze.
Nether embers
Sparks rise from the burning wastes.
Cherry petals
Pink blossom falls in cherry groves.
Deep dark dread
A heavy, watchful quiet in the dark below.
Economy, Jobs and Buffs
Coins flow through everything on Blacklight, from player markets to forge repairs. Pick a job, get good at it, and turn that into real spending power.
A coin economy
Earn, pay and trade with a clean coin economy. Send money to friends, climb the balance leaderboard, and spend at the admin shop or in the player run market.
Jobs with real depth
Choose a job and earn experience as you play. Level up through ranks, unlock mastery and secondary traits, and gain active abilities that change how you work.
Buffs
Spend your earnings on buffs: combat lifesteal, double drops, faster crops, safer falls, quicker travel, cheaper market fees and faction wide territory perks.
Pick your path
MiningWoodcuttingFarmingHuntingFishingAdventuringTrading
Factions and trade
Team up, carve out territory, and build an economy around it. Blacklight gives groups real tools to run their corner of the world.
Factions
Found a faction and invite your friends. Claim and protect your land, set faction homes, pool coins in a shared treasury, hand out ranks, and declare war or settle peace with your neighbours. Many buffs can be shared across the whole faction.
Shops and markets
Buy staples from the admin shop, or list your own goods on the player market for the price you choose. Factions can run their own regional shops with their own tax, complete with floating holograms so buyers can find them.
Chat that fits the moment
Talk globally, keep it local to the people nearby, or switch to faction and ally channels for team coordination. Staff have their own channel, and an optional profanity filter keeps things tidy.
GlobalLocal
FactionAlly
Private messages
The little things that matter
Survival should be challenging, not annoying. Blacklight smooths out the rough edges so you can spend your time on the fun parts.
Multiblock teleporters
Build teleporter pads, link them together, and hop across the map in an instant. Set them up the way you want and manage who gets to use them.
Graves
Die and your items wait for you in a grave instead of scattering everywhere. Walk back, open it, and pick your gear back up. Factions can be allowed to recover yours too.
Sit anywhere
Right click a slab or half-block to take a seat. Perfect for catching your breath, posing for a screenshot, or just hanging out at base.
Smart spawn
A proper spawn screen welcomes new players and eases returning ones back in, with a quick teleport to spawn whenever the rules allow.
Custom resource pack
An optional pack adds bespoke models for every forged weapon, tool, gem and rune. Skip it if you like and nothing breaks, you just see vanilla models.
Player profiles
Open a clean profile screen to check stats and details at a glance, built to work the same on Java and Bedrock.
Coming soon
On the roadmap
Expeditions: instanced dungeons
Our biggest feature is still in the forge. Expeditions will let you form a party, use a Dungeon Compass to open a private instance built just for your group, and drop in together (the compass is used up when your party enters). Think combat rooms, lever and riddle puzzles, one time loot vaults, and named bosses waiting at the bottom.
Planned bosses Abyssal Hydra Crypt Sentinel Grave Knight Voidweaver Warden
Expeditions are not part of the launch. We want them to be excellent before they go live, so keep an eye on Discord for the reveal.
Handy commands
A few of the commands you will reach for most. There are plenty more in game, and they all work on Java and Bedrock.
Talk
/msg, /rPrivate message and quick reply/gc, /lc, /fcGlobal, local and faction chat
Money
/money, /payCheck your balance and pay players/baltopTop balances on the server/shopAdmin shop and player market
Progression
/jobChoose a job and track your XP/buffsBrowse and buy buffs/profileOpen your player profile
Forge and gear
/forgeRun a forge session, gems, runes, repair/graveFind and recover your graves
Travel
/spawnHead back to spawn/teleporterSet up and link teleporter pads
Explore
/ruin, /riftAncient ruin and rift info/vote, /voteshopVote and spend your vote tokens
Straight from the world
A few unedited shots from in game. Java and Bedrock, same world, same view.
How to join
We are live, so come on in. See you on the server.
Java Edition
- Open Minecraft Java on version 26.1.2, then go to Multiplayer and Add Server.
- Server address:
blacklight-network.de - Say yes to the resource pack prompt for the custom items and models.
Bedrock Edition
- Open the Servers tab and Add Server. Works on PC, console, phone and tablet.
- Address:
blacklight-network.de - Port:
19132
Got a question first? Come say hi on Discord.
Vote for Blacklight
Vote to support the server and earn vote tokens, streak bonuses and boosts. Spend your tokens in the in game vote shop.
Frequently asked
Is Blacklight crossplay?
Yes. Java and Bedrock players share the same world through Geyser and Floodgate, so you can join on PC, console, phone or tablet.
Which Minecraft version do I need?
The server runs on Paper for Minecraft 26.1.2. Use a matching Java or Bedrock client and you are good to go.
Is it free to play?
Completely free. Voting is optional and simply rewards you with vote tokens, streak bonuses and boosts.
Do I need the resource pack?
It is recommended for the custom item models, but everything works without it. The gameplay never depends on the pack being loaded.
What is the forging system?
Instead of a crafting grid, you build a real multiblock forge, heat your metal, strike it on the anvil and quench it. The result is gear with its own quality, gems, runes and history.
Are dungeons available at launch?
Not yet. The Expeditions dungeon system is coming after launch. We want it to be excellent before it goes live, so watch Discord for the reveal.
Where is the old modded network?
The previous Operation Blacklight site is still available here: View the old site. This new site is for the survival SMP.
Who runs the server?
Blacklight is built and operated by Uhl IT & Development, a small Austrian studio. You can read more in the Made by Uhl IT section above.
Who builds this
Made by Uhl IT & Development
Blacklight is built and run by Uhl IT & Development, a small Austrian studio founded by Emma Uhl. The same person writes the code and understands the hardware, which is exactly how a server with this much custom work gets made. Alongside the server we build custom gaming PCs, desktop software and websites.
Visit uhl-it.at