Guides & Resources
Minecraft guides, tutorials & news: set up a server, create plugins with AI, optimize mods. The Minax blog.
Altar SMP style plugins: build the same mechanics
Legendary weapons crafted on altars, arcs, seasons and teams: how the Altar SMP mechanics work, with copy-paste prompts to build your own version of each one.
Guides & Resources
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SMP plugins: the mechanics that make your server
Stolen hearts, limited lives, ranks, levels, land claims, economy: what each mechanic really costs to code, with a prompt you can copy.
Scoreboard plugin: a sidebar that never flickers
Why the raw Bukkit API makes your sidebar flicker, the Teams fix, the exact point where FastBoard becomes mandatory, how often to refresh without eating TPS, and where money, rank and ping data really comes from.
Giving your plugin a database: SQLite or MySQL
SQLite or MySQL for your Minecraft plugin? Paper already ships the SQLite driver, MySQL only pays off with several servers, and 75.1% of servers fall into the offline UUID trap. Real Java code.
Connecting a Minecraft plugin to a website: the two-direction guide
Store deliveries, leaderboards, Discord linking and event webhooks: the two directions of travel, the queue, the async thread and the shared key, with real Java that compiles.
How to create a custom command for your Minecraft server
plugin.yml, executor, arguments, tab completion, permissions and the denial message: the full chain behind a Minecraft plugin command, and why a command missing from plugin.yml throws no error at all.
Custom Minecraft item: name, lore, effects and recipe
Display name, lore, enchantments, attributes, persistent data and crafting recipes: the 2026 technical guide to custom items on Paper, including the Adventure 5 break and exactly what needs a resource pack.
Migrating a plugin from 1.21 to 26.x: what breaks, and what you should actually target
Calendar versioning, Adventure 5, the remapper disappearing, the libraries block replacing shading: everything you must change to migrate a plugin from 1.21 to 26.x, and which version to actually target.
Create a Minecraft Plugin with AI
Step-by-step tutorial to generate your first Minecraft plugin in minutes using artificial intelligence.
Create a Minecraft Server
Complete multi-platform guide to install and configure your local or cloud Minecraft server, then deploy your plugins.
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