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Guides, tutorials, and the latest news about Minecraft servers and skins
Baritone: Automated Pathfinding for Your Minecraft Adventures
Baritone is a pathfinding bot that automates navigation in Minecraft worlds using AI-powered routing. It calculates optimal paths from point A to point B and guides your character automatically. Perfect for long journeys, exploration, and building projects across Forge, Fabric, and NeoForge.
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Running BedWars1058: The Complete Plugin Guide
BedWars1058 is an open-source Minecraft minigame plugin where players defend their beds while destroying enemies'. Once destroyed, respawning ends. Deploy on a single server or scale to a full Bungee network.
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Kilt: Playing Forge Mods in the Fabric Ecosystem
Kilt is an experimental Fabric mod that lets you run Forge mods in the Fabric ecosystem. Two developers rebuilt Forge Mod Loader as Fabric mixins, remapping mod bytecode on the fly. It's ambitious, occasionally broken, but genuinely useful if you need specific Forge mods on Fabric.
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CraftBook: Your Guide to Minecraft Server Automation
CraftBook is a lightweight Minecraft server plugin that adds redstone automation, elevators, custom recipes, and gameplay features without requiring players to install mods. Perfect for vanilla-plus servers that want extra depth.
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ProtocolLib: Building Advanced Minecraft Server Plugins in 2026
ProtocolLib is a Java library that provides a safe event API for monitoring and modifying Minecraft server packets. It abstracts away obfuscated code and stays stable across Minecraft updates, making it essential for building advanced server plugins.
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Skript: Customize Your Minecraft Server Without Code
Skript is a Paper plugin that lets Minecraft server admins customize gameplay without knowing Java. Write server behaviors in a readable scripting language instead of compiling plugins. Perfect for quick features, custom mechanics, and bridging plugin gaps.
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PowerNukkitX: Building Custom Bedrock Servers
PowerNukkitX is a free, open-source Minecraft Bedrock Edition server written in Java. Run custom items, blocks, mobs, and vanilla commands on your own hardware without paying for realms. Learn how to install and configure it.
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Connecting Bedrock Players to Java Servers with GeyserConnect
GeyserConnect is a bridge that lets Bedrock Edition players connect to Java Edition servers without installation. Built on Geyser, it's an open-source proxy that brings cross-platform play to standard Java servers.
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MCscripts: Automated Server Management for Minecraft
MCscripts automates Minecraft server management on Ubuntu through systemd, handling backups, updates, and chatbot logging. It's perfect for community server admins who want to stop manually managing maintenance tasks and start trusting automation instead.
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Tenet: Running Mods and Plugins on One Minecraft Server
Tenet is a hybrid Minecraft server that runs Forge mods and Bukkit plugins simultaneously. This guide covers setup, key features, and real-world use cases for server admins who want the best of both ecosystems.
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How ViaBackwards Keeps Your Minecraft Server Multi-Version
ViaBackwards is a plugin that lets older Minecraft clients connect to newer server versions. If you run a public server or want multi-version support without maintaining separate instances, it quietly translates protocol differences so players on 1.19 can join a 1.21 server - all on the same world.
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Why C2ME-Fabric Is the Chunk Optimization Mod to Know
C2ME-fabric is a Fabric mod that speeds up chunk generation and loading by threading work across multiple CPU cores. If your server lags during chunk generation or terrain loading feels sluggish, this mod significantly improves performance without altering vanilla world generation.
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