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Guides, tutorials, and the latest news about Minecraft servers and skins
Setting Up Adventure-Platform for Rich Text on Minecraft Servers
Adventure-Platform provides a unified API for Minecraft text components across Paper, Spigot, BungeeCord, and other server platforms. Learn how to implement rich text formatting without platform-specific code.
Alex Maftei
Custom-Nameplates: How to Style Minecraft Player Nametags
Custom-Nameplates is a Minecraft server plugin that transforms plain player nametags into styled, colorful displays. It supports gradients, animations, resource packs, and attribute modifiers, letting you brand your server with custom nametag aesthetics. Perfect for survival, roleplay, and creative servers.
Alex Maftei
Caine Skin Minecraft: Complete Guide for 2026
Caine skins offer distinctive character designs for Minecraft Java and Bedrock editions. Learn about popular variants like Cainerplayz, CaineX3, and caineastra, how to install them, and why these community-favorite skins stand out for their balanced design and visual clarity.
Alex Maftei
LibertyBans: Building Discipline in Your Minecraft Server
LibertyBans automates player punishment and moderation on Minecraft servers using a database-backed system. Learn how to set it up, manage bans and mutes, detect alt accounts, and integrate with Discord webhooks.
Alex Maftei
Building Custom Scoreboards in Minecraft with scoreboard-library
scoreboard-library is a packet-level Java library for Minecraft Paper and Spigot servers that lets you build custom scoreboards without conflicting with other plugins. Works on versions 1.7.10 to 26.1.2 with full async support.
Alex Maftei
LuminaClient: Bedrock PvP Client for Android Explained
LuminaClient is an open-source Android client for Minecraft Bedrock Edition built for competitive PvP. It replaces the vanilla launcher with performance optimizations, better settings control, and cross-platform proxy support, with the latest release supporting Minecraft 1.26.12.2.
Alex Maftei
FoliaToGo: Getting Fresh Folia Builds Every Single Night
FoliaToGo automates nightly builds of the experimental Folia Minecraft server, letting you run latest server software without waiting for official releases. Built for server admins who want the latest performance improvements and are willing to test experimental code.
Alex Maftei
AntiPopup: Stop Minecraft Chat Reporting Popups on Your Server
AntiPopup is a lightweight Java plugin that removes Minecraft's chat reporting system and popup from your server. Perfect for admins who want to give players a cleaner, privacy-focused experience without configuration headaches.
Alex Maftei
ModernUI-MC: Building Better GUIs for Minecraft Mods
ModernUI-MC is a Minecraft mod framework that brings modern UI design to Minecraft. It provides a text rendering engine, GUI widgets, and modding APIs for both players and developers. Supports Forge and Fabric across multiple versions.
Alex Maftei
Newb X Legacy: Lightweight Shaders for Bedrock Edition
Newb X Legacy is a lightweight RenderDragon shader for Minecraft Bedrock 1.26+ that adds soft, aesthetically-focused visuals like cloud shadows, water reflections, and improved lighting - without crushing performance on midrange hardware.
Alex Maftei
How to Play Classic Minecraft Pi Edition on Modern Systems
Minecraft Pi Reborn revives the original Raspberry Pi Edition on modern systems. This C++-based modding project ports the classic, minimal version of Minecraft to Linux and Windows with improvements, no installation hassle, and genuine nostalgia.
Alex Maftei
FoliaLib: Managing Schedulers for Modern Minecraft Servers
FoliaLib is a Java library that bridges the gap between Folia and Paper schedulers, letting plugin developers write code that works on both. If you're maintaining plugins or running a Folia server, it's the standard tool for handling multithreaded compatibility.
Alex Maftei