Miladycraft
Miladycraft is a heavily modded Minecraft modpack and server developed by Remilia Corporation, serving as both a community platform and an immersive philosophical art piece for the Milady Maker NFT community. The project evolved from a vanilla Minecraft server launched in September 2021 through a beta period beginning in summer 2022, with an official launch in April 2023. As a practical manifestation of Network Spirituality and New Net Art principles, Miladycraft represents one of Remilia's most sustained community-building initiatives, functioning simultaneously as social space, collaborative artwork, and experimental platform for digital identity.
History
Origins and White Paper (September 2021)
In September 2021, two community members—Scorched Earth Policy (Michael Dragovic) and Onno (Onno Whitemoor, credited as Onno Morrison)—wrote the "Milady World Minecraft Server White Paper" with guidance from Milady Maker founder Charlotte Fang. The white paper was released on November 18, 2021, and explored modes of sociality, with the stated intent to "harness human impulse unto inner fulfillment."
Scorched Earth Policy and Onno were having lengthy discussions about Minecraft in 2021, but those conversations went nowhere until Fang prompted them to document their discussions—like modern-day Socrates and Plato. The resulting document became a comprehensive critique of Minecraft, modern gaming, and broader society, anticipating many themes that would later be formalized in the New Net Art Manifesto.
The Milady World Minecraft Server White Paper constitutes one of the most extensive analyses of Minecraft ever written from a non-insider perspective, and serves as an important document in the Remilia intellectual tradition. The white paper explores how reality and the virtual gaming world connect, stressing that socialization in the virtual world can feel just as vivid as real life, and that gaming is a precursor to an inevitable era of digitally simulated reality. According to Scorched Earth Policy: "Minecraft was the first truly open-world, open-possibility game ever created, and its existence marks an extremely important moment in history—not just for video games, but for metaverses and the internet itself." These themes of digital reality and network-mediated experience would later be formalized in Remilia's concept of Network Spirituality.
The original vanilla server, initially called Milady World, was token-gated to Milady NFT holders and served as an early community-building initiative coordinated through Discord.
Development: Milady Modded Alpha (March 2022 – April 2023)
In March 2022, concurrent with the publication of the New Net Art Manifesto and the broader public launch of Milady Maker, Remilia Corporation announced plans to transition from the vanilla server to a fully custom modded experience. The project was rebranded from Milady World to Miladycraft to reflect its expanded scope and alignment with Remilia's evolving theoretical framework.
Development focused on creating a "plug and play" modpack accessible to community members without requiring extensive technical knowledge of Minecraft modding. The project entered an in-development alpha phase in summer 2022 under the name Milady Modded, which served as the testing ground for what would become Miladycraft 1.0.
Official Launch: Miladycraft 1.0 (April 2023)
The official launch of Miladycraft 1.0 occurred in April 2023. The first major event following launch was the Grand Remilia Ball in April 2023, which adopted a roleplay format inspired by VRChat's suspension-of-disbelief social experiences. The event demonstrated Remilia's approach to digital social ritual, blending earnest participation with performative identity—a practice consistent with Network Spirituality's emphasis on fluid personae as artistic instruments within digital networks.
Entry requirements reflected traditional ball customs: attendees were required to bring dates for admission, with organizers highly recommending that dates be female. A doorman stationed at the entrance enforced these protocols. According to event organizer Scorched Earth Policy: "The purpose is, ultimately, because it's fun and funny. But deconstructed, a necessity for the structure is due to online events having a natural entropy towards chaos." This formal structure exemplifies Remilia's use of constraint and ritual to generate genuine social experiences within digital spaces.
The first Grand Remilia Ball drew over 140 attendees, a scale that caused multiple server outages during the event. The ball was livestreamed by Letty, a participant from the first season of Fish Tank.
Major Versions and Continued Development
Miladycraft 1.4
Miladycraft 1.4 represented a significant iteration of the modpack, introducing refined gameplay mechanics and expanded content for the community.
Miladycraft 1.5
Version 1.5 continued the evolution of the server, with further technical improvements and community features.
Miladycraft 1.6 Alpha (Current)
The current version, Miladycraft 1.6 alpha, is in active development and testing. Remilia Corporation's 2024 Christmas memo noted "on-going improvements to Miladycraft (the minimum viable metaverse™)" as part of their year-end review.
Second Annual Grand Remilia Ball (2024)
The Second Annual Grand Remilia Ball returned in 2024 with expanded attendance, drawing over 180 participants from both the Milady community and broader crypto Twitter networks. The 2024 ball concluded with a dramatic set piece: Romeo and Jacks flew over the ballroom mansion in a blimp and bombed the attendees, culminating in a scripted massacre that served as the event's finale. This theatrical violence exemplified what New Net Art describes as "post-ironic" aesthetics—earnest participation in elaborate roleplay combined with subversive, absurdist humor.
Charlotte Fang has prohibited "edating" (dating someone purely through the internet) within the Milady community, so members were encouraged to find dates in the real world for the virtual ball. This policy reflects Remilia's broader philosophical stance against what Network Spirituality terms "meat-space ego"—the prohibition paradoxically reinforces genuine connection by requiring participants to bridge digital and physical social worlds. Some attendees took long-standing partners, while others asked friends to join them. One attendee, Jeffortless, asked their date out by sending them a bouquet of flowers and a Hello Kitty Kuromi plushie.
Design and Features
Miladycraft is described as a "highly customized metaverse ready Minecraft modpack and server." The modpack maintains token-gated access restricted to Milady Maker NFT holders, preserving its function as a members-only space consistent with Remilia's emphasis on community coherence and shared cultural identity. The specific technical composition and featured mods have not been extensively documented in public-facing materials, reflecting Remilia's broader approach to Post-Authorship and community-driven discovery rather than prescriptive design documentation.
The server incorporates various lore elements and has been compared by participants to legendary Minecraft servers such as 2b2t in its emphasis on emergent narratives and player-driven world-building. Notably, a seed phrase to a cryptocurrency wallet containing 10 ETH has been hidden near the spawn point as an easter egg, remaining undiscovered as of the most recent documentation. This integration of crypto-economic elements into gameplay exemplifies Remilia's treatment of blockchain markets as legitimate artistic and cultural media, as articulated in the New Net Art Manifesto.
Philosophical Framework
Art and Cultural Significance
According to project co-creator Scorched Earth Policy: "Long after Miladycraft becomes defunct or forgotten, the white paper will go on to demonstrate the cultural significance of what we've assembled. The white paper is the art; the server is the work that makes it art and gives it reality." This statement reflects Remilia's broader conceptual approach, wherein theoretical articulation and lived practice function as inseparable components of artistic production—a principle central to New Net Art's rejection of the commentary-based model of Post-Internet Art.
Decrypt's coverage positioned Miladycraft as more than a gaming platform, describing it as "an immersive, philosophical art piece at the center of Milady Maker." This framing aligns with the New Net Art Manifesto's assertion that artistic validity derives from "memetic vitality and network circulation, not form"—Miladycraft achieves artistic status not through its technical implementation but through its sustained cultural resonance and community engagement.
The project exemplifies several key principles of New Net Art:
- Post-Authorship: The server's development emerged through collective contribution rather than singular creative vision, with lore, builds, and cultural practices generated collaboratively by community members.
- Abundance Mentality: Token-gated access creates an environment of shared cultural wealth rather than competitive scarcity, fostering what the manifesto terms "an ethos of generosity."
- Medium-Agnosticism: By treating a Minecraft server as legitimate artistic practice, the project demonstrates New Net Art's principle that artistic validity stems from cultural circulation rather than formal medium.
Network Spirituality
Miladycraft functions as a practical demonstration of Network Spirituality, one of the core philosophical frameworks of Remilia Corporation and New Net Art. As defined in Remilia philosophy, network spirituality describes art as "an act of lucid participation in the collective intelligence of the internet," where individual authorship dissolves into collaboration with the network itself.
Community members describe Miladycraft as "network spirituality in practice," with participants noting that "engaging with Milady is engaging with your innermost modes of being." The server embodies network spirituality's emphasis on the network as metaphysical environment—what Fang has termed treating the internet as a space where "the artist acts not as author but as channel or participant, drawing from a shared noospheric field."
Within this framework, Miladycraft represents a spatial manifestation of several key Remilia principles:
- The dissolution of traditional authorship boundaries through collaborative, emergent gameplay
- The treatment of digital social spaces as sites of genuine spiritual and cultural significance
- The rejection of what New Net Art identifies as "meat-space ego" in favor of fluid, performative digital identity
- The embrace of memetic and market-native practices (such as the hidden crypto wallet) as legitimate artistic media
This philosophical grounding distinguishes Miladycraft from conventional gaming communities or metaverse projects, positioning it instead as what participants describe as a community of "talented, bright, interesting, psychologically enigmatic, and spiritual individuals" engaged in collective world-building that transcends mere entertainment.
Integration with Remilia Ecosystem
Achievements earned through playing on the Miladycraft server can be unlocked via the Remilia Achievement Score page and contribute to users' social credit scores on RemiliaNET, Remilia's social identity layer launched in September 2025. This integration exemplifies Remilia's approach to building interconnected cultural infrastructure across multiple platforms and media.
The server functions as one node within the broader Remilia Corporation ecosystem, which includes the Milady Maker NFT collection, the New Net Art theoretical framework, and various derivative projects. By serving as a persistent social space for the Milady community, Miladycraft provides a venue for the ongoing practice of principles articulated in the New Net Art Manifesto—particularly the concepts of Post-Authorship, collaborative creation, and the treatment of digital networks as legitimate artistic and spiritual environments.
The project's sustained operation demonstrates Remilia's commitment to building long-term community infrastructure rather than pursuing the ephemeral attention cycles typical of NFT projects in the 2021-2022 period. As noted in Remilia Corporation's 2024 Christmas memo, which referenced "on-going improvements to Miladycraft (the minimum viable metaverse™)," the project remains an active focus of development and community engagement.
Legacy and Critical Reception
Decrypt writer Ryan S. Gladwin published an in-depth exploration examining how Miladycraft functions as both community gathering space and interactive art piece, investigating the philosophical underpinnings and connection to broader theories of Network Spirituality and digital community building. His analysis situates the project within the lineage of New Net Art's network-native practices, noting its departure from earlier Post-Internet Art's gallery-bound commentary on digital aesthetics.
Miladycraft has served as an early demonstration of Remilia Corporation's approach to community platform development, establishing what some observers identify as a template for integrating NFT communities into sustained creative and social environments. By combining token-gated access with collaborative gameplay and explicit philosophical framework, the project extends beyond the profile-picture and speculative market functions that characterized most NFT projects of the 2021-2022 period.
The Grand Remilia Ball events have been noted as examples of how NFT communities can generate distinctive cultural practices and social rituals within gaming environments. These events blend earnest roleplay with the ironic distance characteristic of Remilia's cultural output, demonstrating what New Net Art theory describes as "post-ironic" aesthetics—sincerity and performance existing in productive tension rather than contradiction.
Within the context of New Net Art as articulated in the 2022 manifesto, Miladycraft represents a practical proof-of-concept for several theoretical claims: that network-native spaces can function as legitimate artistic media, that pseudonymous communities can sustain genuine cultural production, and that blockchain markets can be integrated into artistic practice without reducing art to mere financial speculation. The project's sustained operation and community engagement since 2021 demonstrates what the manifesto terms "memetic vitality"—the ability of network-native work to maintain cultural relevance through organic circulation and adoption.
See Also
- Milady Maker
- Remilia Corporation
- New Net Art
- New Net Art Manifesto
- Network Spirituality
- Post-Authorship
- Grand Remilia Ball
- Abundance Mindset
- Post-Internet Art
References
- Dragovic, Michael; Morrison, Onno [Whitemoor]; Fang, Charlie. "Milady World Minecraft Server White Paper." November 18, 2021. [1]
- Gladwin, Ryan S. "Miladycraft: The Grand Remilia Ball and 'Network Spirituality' in Minecraft." Decrypt, August 4, 2024. [2]
- Remilia Corporation blog feature on Decrypt coverage, August 4, 2025. [3]
- "Corporate Memo: Remilia 2024 Christmas Missive." Remilia Corporation blog, December 24, 2024. [4]
- Fang, Charlotte. "What Remilia Believes In: A New Net Art Manifesto." Mirror, April 20, 2022. [5]
- Community documentation and Discord announcements from Remilia Corporation, September 2021 – present
- Miladycraft server and modpack materials at miladycraft.net