2019–present: Minecraft Manhunt, Dream SMP and collaborations
Dream's most popular YouTube series is "Minecraft Manhunt", a format where one player — usually Dream — attempts to complete a speedrun of Minecraft, while another player or team of players (the "hunters") attempts to kill the runner or thwart their progress. The first video in the series, titled "Beating Minecraft But My Friend Tries to Stop Me", was published on December 26, 2019. Further videos were published in the following years, featuring incrementally greater numbers of hunters. The final episode of the series was published on February 26, 2022. Many of the Minecraft Manhunt videos received tens of millions of views, with one of them ranking sixth in YouTube's Top Trending Videos of 2020. As of April 2025, the most-viewed in Dream's Minecraft Manhunt series has 135 million views.
The series has received positive acclaim. Urian B. wrote in Tech Times that Minecraft Manhunt "requires not only mastery of the terrain but also the ability to think fast on your feet while different choices present themselves with only milliseconds of time for decision making. This is something that Dream is good at, split second decision making." Nicolas Perez from Paste described Minecraft Manhunt as "an experience that leaves me slack-jawed every time", stating that the format of Minecraft Manhunt "seems to guarantee the hunters come out on top. But more often than not, Dream pulls just enough aces out of his sleeve to narrowly beat the hunters, and eventually the game." Gonzalo Cardona, writing for Ginx TV, noted that Minecraft Manhunt had "inspired cult-like montages by fans." Nathan Grayson, writing for Kotaku, said that Minecraft Manhunt had turned Dream "into a household name among Minecraft fans."
In April 2020, shortly after the release of Minecraft snapshot 20w17a, Dream and GeorgeNotFound created the Dream SMP, a private Survival Multiplayer (SMP) Minecraft server. Over time, other prominent Minecraft content creators outside of the "Dream Team" were invited to the server, including TommyInnit, Technoblade, and Wilbur Soot.
Throughout 2020, Dream was a prominent participant in MC Championship, a monthly Minecraft competition organized by Noxcrew. He won both the 8th and 11th MC Championships. In September 2020, during the 10th MC Championship, he played for charity and raised around $3,400.
The primary attraction for fans of The Dream SMP, according to their feedback, is the roleplay aspect. Major events are loosely scripted in advance, while most other elements consist of improvisation, performed live on YouTube and Twitch. Cecilia D'Anastasio of Wired described the Dream SMP as a form of live theatre and as a "Machiavellian political drama." During January 2021, over 1 million people tuned into Dream SMP livestreams.
On April 26, 2021, as a collaboration with Dream, fellow YouTuber MrBeast's fast-food restaurant chain MrBeast Burger released the Dream Burger as a limited-time addition to its menu.
On November 4, 2025, Dream released a video on his main channel in which he revealed that a break to his scaphoid bone that he had sustained six months earlier while helping fellow YouTuber Sapnap train for an upcoming boxing match was struggling to heal and that it might affect his ability to upload his usual skill-intensive Minecraft challenge videos in the future. Dream still remained in a cast at the time of upload and he had undergone surgery and a bone graft to try and help heal his scaphoid. Dream also revealed that his recent uploads were videos he had pre-recorded before his surgery and that during filming them, his injury had already begun to affect his gaming ability.
