The creators focus a lot on kingdom-building, and the series includes a moderate amount of roleplay and storytelling. Over time, various trade deals, wars and peace treaties between the nations may take place. Each empire takes an area of the server and can only expand in that location. The SMP includes YouTubers who rule their respective empires, which are separate nations that can trade, fight, and collaborate with each other's. The Empires SMP, or just Empires, is a private vanilla Minecraft survival multiplayer (SMP) server created on June 12th, 2021 by fWhip.