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$1.1 billion worth of Minecraft accounts have played the Hypixel Minecraft server in the past 13 years, founder says, and it's "still growing"

Minecraft Hypixel Simon CollinsLaflamme Hytale
Minecraft Netherite Armor.

The abrupt collapse of Minecraft-inspired sandbox game Hytale has at times eclipsed the magnitude of the Hypixel Minecraft server that started all this – which, according to its founder, is still very much smashing it.

Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme, who's recently made headlines over suggestions that he'd spend up to $25 million buying Hytale back from Riot just to see it finished, recently announced that the Hypixel Minecraft server, for the PC Java edition, has seen "38,717,739 unique players" in its 13-year history.

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