Game Updates · Minecraft
Minecraft 1.21.11 Pre-Release 1 Hits Java Server Hosts
Minecraft 1.21.11 pre release 1 arrives with Data Pack 94.0, weapon reach components, texture filtering, and spear combat tweaks for Java servers.
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Keeping your regulars through a major game update
The risk is not the downtime, it is the dispersal. Announce before they find out, keep the group together elsewhere, and return in stages.
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Guides
When a plugin author disappears, and the update lands
Wait, replace, fork, or drop the feature. How to tell an abandoned project from a quiet one, and why dropping it is the underrated option.
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Game Updates · Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 Update October 1 2026: Scream Fortress
Details on the Team Fortress 2 update October 1 2026, launching Scream Fortress XVIII, five new community maps, engine fixes, and map updates.
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Guides · Minecraft
Nine Minecraft Plugins Most Servers Should Be Running
The plugins most servers should run, the ones people install and regret, and why a small stack is the difference between a hobby and a second job.
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Disk Speed Matters More Than You Think
Most stutter blamed on the CPU is a scheduled write. How to tell whether the disk is your problem, and what faster storage does and does not buy you.
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Writing a Whitelist Application That Gets Accepted
Applications are rejected for four reasons and bad writing is not one of them. What the reviewer is looking for, and a version that takes three minutes.
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Factions: Minecraft's Oldest PvP Format
Power, land and raiding. How the territory mechanic works, why the format is not what you remember, and where in a season to arrive.
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Bedwars and the Minigame Network
Four teams, four beds, and a queue rather than a place. What separates a minigame network from every other kind of Minecraft server.
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Finding the plugin conflict, without losing the evening
A server that worked yesterday and does not today is usually two plugins disagreeing. The bisect works — in the right order, on a copy.
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The Source server settings that actually matter
Fifteen convars out of several hundred decide how a server feels, whether it gets listed, and whether it stays yours.
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IPv6 for game servers: mostly irrelevant, occasionally essential
Widely deployed everywhere except game hosting, because the query protocols predate it. The one case where it is the only way to be reachable.
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