random screenshots.

[x] I'm in this screenshot and I don't like it :)

Thanks! Still a WIP, but I've been meaning to ask you two if you have any preferences for armor/ armor trim, or items to hold (probably stick- like items, but I'm open to suggestions)

Also, I need to figure out what ray-tracing you're using @creesch , I've been working on some solar alignments of parts of the Temple, but the default minecraft world is on the equator with no axial tilt, which makes things celestialy boring.

This is a great server showcase!

Excellent. Second one rocks the night view.

Yeah, I need to rebuild my tower. heh. It's dumb, but the second version will be better.

This really does show off the server well.

And my contributions, while small, were really nice to see. Hopefully folks will build more stuff out there :)

But how the heck do y'all deal with bulk mobs?

Have you seen my death count?

But how the heck do y'all deal with bulk mobs? I know everyone lights up the areas they hang out in, but that's not practical for building a road, where I'll light the road itself, but mobs will spawn not far away....

You can also block mob spawns with string (mostly invisible with most texture packs), buttons (can look like pebbles), carpet (moss carpet), 2+ snow layers. And any other solid block without a full top face (e.g. stairs, bottom slabs, fences, soul sand, glass, etc).

You can also block mob pathfinding with a carpet on top of a berry bush.

Those will stop things like zombies, creepers, spiders, but skeletons can still shoot players up to 15 blocks away.

So in principle it is possible to light up only the road, and use the blocks listed above to prevent mob spawns out to 16+ blocks, and create a hidden barrier which mobs cannot walk across beyond that. But doing this along the entire road seems unreasonable.

So instead my suggestion is:

Zombies have the farthest sight; they attack players within 35 blocks. So if you illuminate 36+ blocks to either side of the road, and the player stays on the road, no zombie that spawns will attack the player.

The zombie might walk into the lit area, in which case it could see the player. Extending the illuminated area a bit will reduce the likelihood; but the minimum for "safety" is 36.

So if you have a torch at the road, that illuminates ~15 blocks to either side. Put another torch ~25 blocks out, and in total that'll illuminate ~40 blocks to either side of the road (plus-or-minus a bit depending on how frequently you place the torches).

But how the heck do y'all deal with bulk mobs?

Good armor helps a lot with this. Beside the bed I placed at the end of the road is a set of fully enchanted diamond armor and a sword for you

Is there any way someone could, umm, visit the northern end of the road and deliver a bed

I placed a bed down at the very north end of the road

I think the recording may be a bit stuttery - it looked okay as I was recording, so I'm not sure, but here is me walking from the current northern end back to town: https://youtu.be/DN4ot0fFbPg

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I use Fabulously Optimized with some extra mods on top. Some of these might be already included in FO, but I'm not certain.... here are the highlights that aren't just used for optimization.

I use MultiMC as my launcher/mod manager.

Utilities and Quality-of-Life

• Accurate Block Placement makes it so when you hold down right-mouse it consistently places blocks while you look around or walk. Much easier and faster than repeatedly clicking the button!

• Mouse Tweaks tweaks how the mouse works in inventories. For example it allows you to click-and-drag on items to collect things a bit more fluidly, or scroll on items to shift them in/out of chests.

• Inventory HUD + shows my inventory, armor, and tools in a little translucent view on the main screen. Gives me some confidence I'm not about to break my elytra or run out of building blocks.

• Xaero's Minimap and Xaero's World Map do what they sound like. The minimap appears in the corner of your screen, and the world map is a full-screen map on which you can place waypoints and view other dimensions. One really nice feature is, while in the overworld, you can view your equivalent position in the Nether or vice versa. Similarly you can place a waypoint in the Nether and have it appear in the Overworld or vice versa. Very helpful for linking portals!

• RoughlyEnoughItems This isn't as useful nowadays since we have the crafting book, but I'm old-school from the days of TooManyItems and prefer to keep it around. The "favorited items" and "recipe tree" features are nice for keeping track of which building materials I need to collect.

Vanity

• LambDynamicLights I think this one is included in FO. It makes torches actually illuminate the area around you - very useful in your off-hand while mining! But be sure to still place real torches, as the dynamic lights do not prevent mobs spawning.

• Distant Horizons well covered by others I think. Produces extremely far render distances, and allows you to set your "real" render distance much lower for better performance.

• Isometric Renders lets you make cute third-person screenshots of your builds.

• Better Clouds I don't like playing with shaders, but this along with Distant Horizons creates some really nice landscapes without losing that Minecraft "charm".

• Better Third Person makes the third-person F5 view actually useful! I really like to use it while exploring.

• Do a Barrel Roll makes flying elytra fun, but also extremely hazardous. Do not use this in the End! Just trust me on that lol. But exploring the overworld is a lot of fun with it. I recommend the "hybrid" control mode, where pressing space the first time enters vanilla-style elytra flight, and pressing space again enters DaBR-style flight.

Technical

Less generally relevant to survival, but useful. Tweakeroo especially has a lot of things let you customize the game to extreme degree.

• MiniHUD a very powerful but not-so-easy-to-use tool that does a whole bunch of stuff. Its namesake feature is to show customizable info in the corner in a "mini-f3 hud", but it also allows you to view spawnable block locations, structure borders, custom borders and overlays, etc. It's very useful for planning out farms and AFK spots.

• Tweakeroo not dissimilar from MiniHUD, but more focused on quality of life changes. For example, it can switch away from your pickaxe if you're about to break it, automatically restock items in your hotbar if you're about to run out, provide a hot-key to let you place blocks diagonally-adjacent to others without scaffolding, and various other things.

Not client-side

But indispensable on my local creative server:

• WorldEdit for quickly editing builds. I think that some of this can be done in vanilla nowadays with commands, but I never learned that and WorldEdit is more powerful. There is also Axiom which is still more powerful and intuitive, aimed more specifically at creatives and designers, but I have not learned it. I am mildly curious if it's any more useful for technical builds than WorldEdit is.

  • Edit: After I dug up the link for Axiom I started poking around the documentation for it. It looks like it solves a lot of the issues I have with WorldEdit (specifically when you copy/paste, sometimes redstone components do not paste correctly). So I think I will start learning Axiom for my creative server.

• Redstone Multimeter is frankly over-powered for debugging redstone contraptions. It does not change vanilla behavior at all; it simply allows you to monitor redstone components with an oscilloscope-type view, and step through the timeline to help make sure things update in the right order. Extremely helpful for debugging things.

Edit: I've tried Axiom for a few hours now, and I'm never going back to WorldEdit if I can help it. It is such a good tool, even for technical builds.

I publish my own modpack to Modrinth: secret's pack. It has most of the optimisation mods, and a good number of the mods used on technical servers (litematica and the like). It also has whatever I feel like installing that fits within the theme of the pack.

• AmbientSounds: One of my favorite mods, adds the sound of birds, wind, etc based on the biome. Makes the world come alive.
• Chat Patches: Gives longer chat history and provides a search function.
• Chest Tracker: I am bad at organizing chests and even if I do remembering where I put stuff. This mod solves that issue.
• Crafting Tweaks: Just some QoL crafting tweaks.
• Distant Horizons: See faaaaaaaaaaaar.
• Inventory Profiles Next: This can do a lot, I mainly use it for inventory sorting and auto refilling items that run out when placing blocks and such.
• Lighty: Shows light levels
• Shulker Box Tooltip: See what is in shulkers in your inventory.
• Web chat well yeah... chat :P
• Xaero's Minimap
• Xaero's World Map

As far as visuals go see this comment

Most of the graphics ones I use have already been mentioned, but no one mentioned Peek. Peek is a lot like Shulker Box Tooltip, but better. One of the things Peek does that the other tooltip mods I've tried are missing is that it adds visual information to in-world shulkers.

Bridging Mod is a mod that I've come to love that I think no one but me is using. It let's you place blocks like in bedrock edition. Hard to explain, but you can place blocks below the block you're standing on, and you can bridge out horizontally while facing the direction you're traveling. Makes building in many situations way easier.

                                                     secret_agent
                                                     Secret Agent
                                           secret_agent, The Mall
                                 Godzilla Hwy, Greater Tilde Town
                                                  Sent 10/05/2025

                                                    Addressed to:
                                                Taylor Picklowska  
                           Senior Customer Service Representative  

Dear Ms. Picklowska,

I am writing to you as legal counsel for my client, secret_online, regarding your recent correspondence dated 08/05/2025.

Firstly, it is important to clarify that there exists no binding contract or agreement between my client and your organization. As such, any claims made in your note regarding alleged damages or infestations are entirely unenforceable.

Furthermore, I would like to address the nature of your claims, which appear to be setting forth unreasonable restrictions upon what constitutes acceptable behaviours in this area. Cuddle Zones are protected in this space, and any purported restrictions infringe on the catgirls' right to personal expression and creativity on this server. Your advice regarding headpats and energy drinks is appreciated and has been forwarded to my client.

In the spirit of transparency, I formally request any and all evidence or documentation that supports your claims. Without such evidence, it is clear that your assertions hold no merit and should be dismissed.

I look forward to your prompt response.

Sincerely,
secret_agent
Secret Agent at secret_agent

I just had an IRL run in with my HOA over *gasp* two small weeds.

So I very much appreciate this whimsical take at HOA tomfoolery today. :)

Honestly though, I love the idea, perfect mixture of funny, derpy, unexpected, and dangerous. Soon it will be a full battlefield there :P

And I don't think I could have ever guessed it would be this kiwi that you'd be adding as an ally for godzilla. I was assuming it'd be something either "very monster-y" or something very technological, yet this fits in surprisingly well

Please un-grief my statue by returning the spear to its original state. The laser thingy touching it is 100% fine, as it's additively interfering with it, but destructively interfering with it is not okay.

https://ieh.im/s/YjHDi9cryh.png — It appears to me that there is a clear path to directly connect my road up to Tildestown. Then I'll extend it to the south.

You already started building it, but considering there is a road already next to it this seems a bit odd to me. Then again, it doesn't really interfere with anything and I do like the material chose for this road :)

One request, the connection between the two southern roads is no wood, can we make that in the same style of the original southern road so it blends in a bit more?

I think it is a bit much to be honest.

• Where farms are. That's what bluemap is for, on the top left is a hamburger menu. From there you can browse markers for each world including farms. At the town messageboard is also a book with locations. You did remind me I haven't done a Bluemap awareness post in a little while
• Guidelines/rules/Don't Be a Dick. There is only one rule, which is shown when you log into the server. The rest is consensus based. While there is an alleged cult surrounding my personality, I wouldn't want my ramblings to be written down as actual rules for example :P. If you feel like there are some more core things missing I feel like that just should be added to this weekly thread.
• Screenshots of projects, that's what this thread is for. People can also check bluemap to get an idea of what is on the server. More importantly, they can log on to the server themselves. ;)

Then for other information there is this thread were people can ask information. Adding a wiki, I feel like, would add confusion on where to find information. Not to mention that someone is going to need to remember to update the wiki as well.
If anything, if we do want to provide some base information outside the game, I feel like it should be here in this thread.

Of course, as Mendanbar said, feel free to document stuff for yourself for private use.

Late to the party, but I feel there is still valid reasoning for setting up a wiki that hasn't been explored. While we do have in-game ways to document things, and we have these weekly chats for discussions, what we don't really have is a way to have things consolidated in one place for easy viewing long term. For example if we had a wiki, there could be a place to document and showcase builds and events from past (and future) iterations of the server. Imagine being able to click through pages of pictures showcasing various builds with stories from the last server, Bendvis' floating dragon home, the giant statue battle with the ufo, the Easter egg hunt/fireworks show. I think for this usecase it's a very valid idea.

I am very opinionated about how we document things. I like blue map, but also I prefer it also to be fully documented in game for immersion reasons. Therefore, I am not a fan of when we minimize navigation in game because of blue map. Ideally, everything should be possible to figure out in game, and external online resources are just extra help. However, I think having a static URL we can provide for newcomers to get them acquainted with the server is beneficial. Having stuff like what the rules/norms about claiming land are (you can build in any empty space in town), some notes on farms are communal so feel free to take, community stances on client side mods, and other similar things would be beneficial. Normally that is covered by whoever is online via in game chat, but having a static URL for newcomers who join when the server is quiet would be useful

My immediate reaction is that I wouldn't want to take things away from the sort of organic documentation in game, so I wouldn't necessarily want to discourage people from using the in game books and maps for farms and such. But when you mentioned screenshots, file downloads, etc, that reminded me of Hermitcraft's website. In that context I think it could be pretty nice to have a dedicated place to host things that exist outside of what can be done with the existing game and plugins. Just my measly $0.02.