Notes on Unity, AI and game development

Before you upgrade or change settings, you want a copy of the world that you can actually restore. Stop the server and copy the world folder, and you have a complete backup. If som …

Minecraft’s built-in locate command lists the coordinates of the nearest stronghold, ancient city, village or cherry grove, but the syntax in older guides only returns error messag …

Pixelmon is a mod that adds Pokémon to Minecraft. To play with friends in the same world, you need a server with the same mods installed. As long as the server and every player use …

Carpet Mod can spawn fake players on a Fabric server. A fake player is a character that does not need a connection but that the server treats as a real player. When every player le …

When a player runs into unexplored land, a Minecraft server has to generate new terrain on the spot, and with many players the map can arrive with holes. Chunky generates a chosen …

BlueMap is a Minecraft server plugin that renders your world as a 3D map and serves it to browsers through a built-in web server. Install the plugin and agree to the download of Mi …

Data packs add new features to a Minecraft world, but after you put one on a server it often does nothing, and sometimes the server shows no error at all. Put the data pack in the …

Paper ships with spark, which records where the server spends its time. When the server lags and neither CPU usage nor console warnings show why, record a report during the lag. Th …

Minecraft Java Edition renamed almost every game rule in a recent version, so old commands such as keepInventory and mobGriefing now fail with “Incorrect argument for command”. Swa …

ComfyUI has a built-in API that lets a script generate images without touching the interface. Export your workflow in API format, replace the node values from Python, and send it t …