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The Minecraft server plugin ecosystem has changed a lot over the years, but the essential plugins have been relatively consistent.

The Java community is a mature yet evolving one.

There are two separate versions of Minecraft, Java Edition and Bedrock Edition.

Providing support for an open-source project can be draining on the developers, and not receiving help can be frustrating for the users.

JavaScript as a language is heavily asynchronous, with promises being deeply integrated.

The Minecraft server community has many misconceptions floating around about using MySQL or other databases with plugins, some of which cause servers to perform significantly worse.

Over the years, upcoming Java features have always been a point of excitement throughout the community.

If you've been vaguely following CraftBook's development for the past year, you may have heard mention of CraftBook 5.

It's been almost a year since the last big WorldEdit update.

Surprisingly more often than you'd expect, I'm in a discussion where the concept of timezones come up.

Quite often in the EngineHub Discord, we get support requests from users whose server host is at fault.

Running a Minecraft Server can be a daunting task.

It used to be that anyone who wanted to start a Minecraft server would download server software for the latest Minecraft version, but that has changed over the past few years.

Due to the popularity of my previous article on Fabric vs Forge and NeoForge, I've decided to write up a guide on whether you should use Paper or Spigot.

Google Web Toolkit, also known as GWT, is a technology by Google that allows you to create sophisticated web applications using the Java programming language on the frontend.

As of today, the 4th of August 2020, survival multiplayer in Minecraft Java Edition has been around for a whole decade.

There is a lot of misinformation around the Minecraft community when using larger plugins containing numerous independent features.

Using WorldEdit with blocks added by mods (modded blocks) on Minecraft versions before 1.13, such as 1.8.8 or 1.12.2 which are both commonly used for modpacks, can be confusing.

At first glance, JavaScript may not be the ideal language to write scripts or applications that manipulate large amounts of data.

I recently read Asana's blog post on TypeScript quirks and took particular interest in the first TypeScript quirk they mention.

With over half a year since the last big WorldEdit update, we're now releasing WorldEdit 7.1, with many new features and improvements.

If you've been looking for MCEdit for any modern version of Minecraft, you’ve likely realised that it just doesn’t exist.

The Minecraft modding ecosystem massively changed with the release of Minecraft 1.13.

VAC, or Valve Anti-Cheat, is a piece of Anti-Cheat software developed by Valve Software.

A common issue Minecraft server admins face is unexplainable behaviour of which they can't find the cause.

A common tool for determining the cause of lag and slowdowns of Minecraft servers at the moment is Timings, built into Spigot.

A typical task that people want to achieve with WorldEdit is to load in a schematic, replace a few blocks, and then save it again.

The /reload command has been around in Bukkit since the early days of Minecraft multiplayer.

There's been a recent uptick in people wanting a correct tutorial on using schematics in Minecraft with WorldEdit, due to a few incorrect tutorials floating around the internet.

After over a year in the making, WorldEdit 7 is complete.

2018 has been a busy year.

Asking how to load, save, paste, and copy schematics are some of the most frequent questions we get about the WorldEdit API.

This post has been a long time coming, seeing as the last post in the series was just over three months ago.

Updating WorldGuard to 1.13 has been a complicated process, however not as time-consuming as WorldEdit.

Updating WorldEdit to Minecraft 1.13 has been a long and arduous process.

Over the past few months, I've taken on the task of updating WorldEdit, WorldGuard, and CraftBook to Minecraft 1.13.

I first got into Minecraft in the (Australian) Summer of late 2010, after being introduced to the game by a friend.

Recently I had an experience involving the LastPass bug bounty program that didn't end quite how I would've liked.

I often see Java code that relies on thrown exceptions to indicate different output states of a method.

I used to write custom anti-cheat software for popular Minecraft networks, and often discuss the different aspects of an anti-cheat system with other anti-cheat developers.

Around four years ago in a large Skype group chat, I stumbled upon an administrator of a reasonably popular Minecraft server network.

Recently when working on a VR game, I encountered an interesting issue.