Breadcraft

Breadcraft is an OG Prison server for Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.11 and newer. It was built to feel like the prison servers of 2013 to 2015, before the gamemode filled up with gimmicks: you start locked up at rank A with a pickaxe and you earn everything from there.
The loop is the classic one. You mine, you sell your haul, and you buy the next rank as soon as you can afford it. There are 26 mines from A to Z, and every one of them is richer than the last, so each rank you unlock pays back the grind that got you there. When you reach Z you can prestige, which sends you back to mine A with a permanent multiplier and a new tag next to your name. There are ten prestiges to climb, and the price of each rank is tuned to what that rank actually earns, so the ladder feels fair from the first hour to the last.
Your pickaxe grows with you. The Miners Pickaxe is a single tool you upgrade throughout the season with custom enchants such as Midas, Lucky Blocks and Cluster Bombs, and it becomes the center of how you play. Outside the mines you get your own island with generators, dungeon raids, and full-moon airdrops that fall over the Moon Forest. The PvP mine holds the most valuable ores on the server, and it is the only place where another player can attack you, so the reward comes with a real risk. There are also fishing ponds, Hunter quests, crates, an auction house, coin flips, duels, bounties, gangs, daily rewards and a free Legendary Key raffle that runs during peak hours.
Breadcraft is not pay-to-win and never will be. The store sells bread-themed ranks with cosmetics and quality-of-life perks that help keep the server online, but the mines, the pickaxe and the rank ladder treat everyone exactly the same. Every rank from A to Z is earned with a pickaxe, not a wallet.
The community is small and friendly, with an active Discord and staff around most evenings. Join at play.breadcraft.net with Java 1.21.11 or newer. Bedrock is not supported.