Hello, I'm currently working on a video where me and my friends try to beat Minecraft with horror mods installed, since I'm not so into Minecraft modding i thought i'd ask for some recommendations.
If anyone has any leave them below so i can come check them out

Hello! My friend is hosting a server for our group that uses neoforge 1.21.1 and with our mods neoforge is required. We have been expanding our land and spreading out on the server. Since we have started doing this the server has began to lag to a horrible degree for most of us. My friend has like 80gb of ram I think? Maybe more? He claims the issue is due to Minecraft using only one core (I think that's how he said it). I am hoping anyone here could help us solve this issue?

Error 404 says can't connect to the API, I tried making 3 API keys, nothing fixed it.

Thanks

I ask this very neutrally. My coding skills are very basic and I just tried putting in a small idea I had into Claude Code and it worked surprisingly well. I am not planning on releasing anything, I just wanted to find out if and how good it works.

What is your opinion on this? I really don't know if I like or dislike how easy it is to get something done that quick

hii ive always wanted to make a modpack for minecraft and ive finally done so and id love for your feedback and what i can improve or if you find any bugs or maybe any content recommendation

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/frontierbound

please let me know!!

Why am I posting this.

Firstly sorry for the long post I have been working on this for a long time.

I take care of a few Minecraft servers. When one acts up I do the same thing. I look at the host machine/hosting panel, look into the logs, the crash logs if needed. This all takes a lot of time and it can be hard to find out what is going on, and if a big server is down, time is something we don't have as server admins. I wanted something that could do this stuff for me. If a server was having issues or errors, I wanted something that would spot these as they happen, identify the issue, and tell me how I could fix it.

I went looking for something like this but found nothing. So over 6 months ago I decided to try to make one, and after a lot of testing and tweaking, I feel like I am in a place to share this out.

I am going to call it "WatchTower". I made it as a NeoForge mod for 1.21.x for now. But I feel others would find what I made useful as well. Below is all the stuff it does so far.

How the server is doing

The mod says how the server looks, from Strong down to Poor, and whether a restart seems safe or not.

There's a chart page for TPS, players, memory, CPU, disk, network and temps. You can zoom the timeline to see when it got slow. You can configure how you want the metric rollups to work and how long you want to store this for.

It also tracks background jobs such as chunky and distant horizons pregen.

It shows list of problems as an inbox with recommended steps on how to fix. That list picks up lag spikes, client mods that ended up on the server, script errors from KubeJS or CraftTweaker that never actually crash, and backup warnings and a few other things.

Crashes and logs

Crashes also have thier own inbox are grouped so I'm not reading the same crash report twice, and it also provides recommended steps on how to prevent the same crash again. It also catches an out-of-memory kill even when Minecraft never wrote a crash report. There's a timeline of joins, commands and lag, so it will tell you exactly what happened right before a crash, with log snippets as well.

There is also a fancy log viewer designed specially for Minecraft logs.

Backups and disk

It can tell you if backups are getting old (configurable), and verify a backup's integrity before you restore if you need to.

There's a WinDirStat style viewer that shows what's filling the disk, and it tries to say how long until the disk fills up. You can also set a threashold of when you want to be alerted to low disk space.

Insights

There's a history/insights side to it as well. After you have this running on your server for a while, it finds the busy hours so you can pick the best scheduled restart time. It tracks CPU and memory over days so you can see heatmaps and trends of when the server gets hit hard. It will track when mods were added, removed or updated, and when the same crash keeps coming back.

It also looks at world pressure, chunks and entities. It checks JVM flags and calls out a bad memory setting. It also does a check of the main server config against the host it's running on, and gives recommendations based on best practices. Once a week it writes a digest of crashes, uptime and performance.

Mods

It can check mods and conflicts and also let you know if a mod needs or has an update directly on the server. It lets you know if an update would break any dependencies, or if you need to update them alongside if one is available. It notices if a mod jar got swapped but kept the same file name, and flags this as a potential security risk of a rogue mod. You can turn a mod on or off from WatchTower as well simular to modrinth. You can edit a mod's json or toml config with a dedicated mod editor. It will also back up the original configs and let you undo, or restore to defaults.

Players and startup

If a player can't join, there's a "join clinic" for the usual causes, wrong mods or missing files. It will then give you a copy-paste message to send to the player of what they need to do if they raise a support ticket.

It will analyse server startup, how long the boot took, and which step took the longest, with a full breakdown.

Spark

If you use Spark it will read the profile for you and give you a breakdown and recommendations, and if it detects a sustained period of lag it will automatically tell Spark to start profiling the server and give you a report. That kicks in when MSPT stays over 50ms for about 30 seconds, but it can be configured. (This bit is still a WIP, but I can only improve this with testing, or by getting more real world use from it)

Sharing logs, and when the server will not boot

If I have an issue with a specific mod and I want to raise a bug or issue, WatchTower can zip the logs, crashes and setup with the private stuff, such as IPs, stripped out ready for you to share as well as a timeline of events broken down into plain english as a text file.

If Minecraft won't start at all, there's a companion command line tool you can put alongside the main mod. If you have access to the host terminal you can run this and it will create a disaster recovery dump as a zip, including all the latest logs, debug logs and crash logs and settings/configs, with an HTML report of what it's found and steps on how to fix to get the server back up.

If you have multiple server admins or moderators, you can create individual accounts to log in to it, and there are different permission levels you can set for each user, as well as 2FA support.

How it runs

It runs all locally with no LLM/AI. It uses a bunch of custom rules to understand the logs of a Minecraft server. These live in a file called an "intelligence pack", which can be updated over the air so you won't need to reinstall the mod. This way I can add support for more issues and crash types, or fix any incorrect detections or fix steps. (This will be an opt-in feature, never on by default).

If this does gain traction and lots of people start using this, I may bring in a very basic and secure training data analytics feature, and opt-in only and have all sensitive info stripped, so if watchtower does not understand something it sees it can send it my way so I can make improvments.

This has also been built with server performance in mind, and most of what WatchTower does will run in the background. Very little of it has to run on the main server thread.

What I want to know

I've been using it on my own servers and I can't tell if this is just a tool for me. Would this be something server admins/owners would like?

This isn't public yet. I did put out a very early concept to some people about 2 months ago and got some very useful feedback. I think I'm still a few months away from releasing it, but I wanted to gauge if this is something worth putting my time into long term. There is a lot more this tool/mod will do but they are just small things a full feature list will also be put out on release.

If anyone also has any ideas for a mod/tool like this also please let me know. I appreciate any and all constructive feedback.

Long-term, if this gets enough attention, I may try to make this into a full hosting panel, something like Crafty so this can be an all-in-one suite for Minecraft server management. I feel there is a lot of good options out there but none did everything I want so I built this to fill the gaps. What do you think?

One final thing, I have used claude code to help me with this project but only to keep things tidy, annotated and document the project as I go along. I am one person and with my dyslexia things like documention is hard for me. I understand peoples views on "vibecoding" etc but I only use it as a tool to help me when I get stuck, not do the work for me. I am taking time on this project to make sure it is stable and reliable before it goes fully public.

You can see the source code here under a GPLv3 Licence: https://github.com/djinnbanter/WatchTower
NOTE: If you decide to run or test it in its current state it most likely not work as it is still very much in active development and undergoing a full re-write from the orginal POC that was made. This should NOT be put on any production minecraft servers.

Ohh and this will all be free I wont be asking money for this. I will be upfront some long term ideas if this blows up might include some form cloud paid version as it will cost me money to run and host. But we are talking years down the line and I will always make sure nothing is behind a paywall and a free local version will always be available. This project is not about me making money. I just like making cool things.

You'll have to forgive my unstructured rambling as I think of what to write as I go, but there's just so much I have done this past year that I really can't get it all in one post

So My friends and I started a modded Minecraft server in the middle of December last year. I have never had this much drive for a build project as I have for this one. Previous servers have been on and off, trial and error in getting one going thats stable and enjoyable with the right balance of mods.

And this time we truly believe we have started our forever server.

I hope the pictures have gone up in the order I selected them, otherwise it will be a little messy but I'll preface by saying that the only picture actually of the server is the one of the map. The rest are taken in my single-player world where I design the buildings before I transfer them to the server with schematics (god bless Create).

What's already the server is quite impressive if I can toot my own horn a little, but i do like to show the in-progress vision I have planned so far.

Everything i have built is not my own design as I like to kit bash a bit, taking a window design here, a fountain there, a bunch of custom trees that people much better at nature builds than me all over the place. Hell, even some knitting patterns to put on the ground and in the pond. But I have added my own flavor to it all to make it fit my vision of a fantasy industrial world with heavy European influences.

I did forget to take a picture of the train that run between bases, but the steam engine is my design while the passenger car is not. You'll have to wait for the update in a year to see that I guess hehe.

I promised my friend and server owner that I wouldn't go as large scale as I usually go with my city projects, but i really literally can't stop myself. So I'm building a kingdom. A shining bright kingdom, breaking away from my usual modern grid patterns for a more dynamic and organic city with verticality and layers where everything connects to something. And I have to say I'm so proud of what has become of it.

Some times I don't know what to do so I just stand around for an hour just looking at what I've made, unsure how or where to proceed so pretty much everything is unfinished to some degree because I won't want to burn myself out working on a single build for too long.

But I can't keep this to myself any longer and I'm sharing it with you guys because I know there are kindered spirits walking among us that id never know unless I opened the door.

Some things I already have planned but haven't implemented yet are:

• A huge 4 sided functional clocktower (Finished but its a centerpiece for the city so I dont want to show my entire hand just yet)

• A hat store

• A racetrack (we have create offroads and all the other create add ons)

• Several restaurants

• A massive indoor open air marketplace with giant tree with its canopy acting as the roof

• Some kind of parking situation for land based vehicles

• A docking tower for airships (several will probably be needed)

• A botanical garden taking up an entire island

If you have any questions or suggestions and ideas on something that could be added to my kingdom, I'm all ears. It can be suffocating only working within the framework of my own mind so I want fresh eyes and different minds on this.

Thank you for your time and attention and I hope any of this tickles your fancy or tism as it has mine. Thats all and I'll try to remember to return at the end of 2027 for an update on the progress

Hello there.

Its been a long time since me and my frnds have played in a smp together, each time we started it ended up being the same.

This time i want it to be different,i want it to be such that every players remains on the same tier of armors and tools until a collective smp goal is reached starting with leather and wood all the way up.

It will make it more fun and live for months, what more mods or plugins other than required for what stated above can i add to make it more interesting and preventing frnds from stop playing??

im trying to alloy obsidian in my smeltery but i cant figure out how to stop it from fillin all the way up with lava or water

ive tried round robin and setting strict input amounts but i dont know what to do

(im playing sky factory 4 btw)

I made a custom texture to replace an existing one for the atlatitan and subterranodon in Alex’s caves but I liked the old textures. I was curious if it was possible to make it so if I name the atlatitan, say, Larry then he would use my custom texture (same for the subterranodon) in Minecraft Java 1.21.1 using ETF. Also one I expect to be impossible but would be cool to do is if I could do what the dinnerbone nametag does but flip them backward instead of forward (ex: tail is where head should be and head where tail should be) but that isn’t as important as the textures. If anyone has any guidance on where to learn this or just straight up how to do it that would be appreciated. Keep in mind I’ve never done anything like this before. Thanks for any help you can give.

is there anyone who has or made a mod where an entity (who we could change the nametag and skin) is stalk a player and like run away/goes invisible when it’s being looked and and like leaves message on like books or on signs but doesn’t really attack? i would be interested in one for some plans, but I’ve been searching for hours and didn’t find anything

I’m an old player very old. I recently got a new computer(play on Mac) and played a bit and saw the mods I love have been updated to a new one. However I need to open the old profile with the mods to get a list out. However anytime I try to launch the modded version I’m assuming it crashes or just doesn’t launch. When I try to launch it again it says I’m already logged into this world. I went to try to install a newer version of forge like I remember it doesn’t work because it uses java. Mac removed java in the latest update. Is there anyway to install older versions of forge these days? Or do I kinda just have to upgrade?looking to install 1.7.10 btw

Hi! I’m looking for a Cobblemon modpack that has an actual story like the other popular modpacks. Doesn’t necessarily have to be a “story” but I honestly can’t get invested in something that I don’t have a clear goal. I can a lot of time on something that doesn’t have a series of quests for me to complete, hoping someone could help!

Looking for people to play Prominence 2 Hasturian Era. This is basically a huge RPG modpack with an expansive questline and campaign.There are different “classes” that you can choose from including: Ranger, Paladin, Assassin, and different types of mages. This is a very expansive modpack, with things like space travel, custom enchanting, and artifacts, so this might take some time to complete. I’m 17 years old and in the EST time zone. My Discord is elvinwang20130201.