This week’s update is all about being creative. With new textures and a Creative Flatworld Server, I hope you’ll find some inspiration to get started and tell stories!

Minecraft is all about being creative and imaginative, so lately I’ve been working on adding more creative features to the mineha.us network. Providing new features that both spark imaginative ideas and allow players to act on those ideas is important to the creative process, so that’s what today’s update is all about. I’m not a big fan of doing the same thing as every other server, though, so I’m approaching these new features with a plan to keep simplicity in mind while still being unique. I want to get out of the way of players and give them freedom to explore their ideas, and then I’ll make other updates in the future to match their desires. As with the previous updates, this one all about laying strong foundations. New (Old) Textures, Items, and Recipes Back in the day when I ran the Villagered SMP and TreeCrafters servers, we had a number of different items and custom recipes to make life…

Part of the challenge of running a Minecraft server for VR players is finding ways to add helpful features without making them type commands. Today’s update accomplishes that.

There are two main features on a Survival Minecraft Server that are practically required: Grief ProtectionTeleports/Warps Both of these are easy for your standard Java Edition player, who has a keyboard at hand that they can use to type commands with. That’s not so useful for the MineHa.us Survival Server, though, since it’s built for Minecraft VR. That means we need a different solution that doesn’t rely on commands. Today, I’m adding those two features to the server using simple methods that are easy for Java Edition, Bedrock, and even VR players to use. Let’s check them out: Protection Stones When you first arrive on the VR server and turn around to leave the front door, you will now see a button that says, “Don’t forget your FREE Protection Stone!” Clicking on this button will give you a Medium Protection Stone, the only one you’ll get for free, which is good for protecting a 64×64 region in the world. You…

If you ever find yourself wondering why your builds aren’t feeling quite “alive” enough, asking these two questions can lead to more depth and unique ideas that can help you along the way.

Years ago, I read an article by sci-fi author John Scalzi that mentioned one of his strategies for writing a great novel. It was a short comment, but it’s stuck with me over a decade later: Whenever he’s finished with a section of the story he’s telling, he goes back through and he asks “Why?” and “How?” something works the way it does. Whether it’s a character’s decision to go to a meeting, the way a spaceship’s engine works, or why two neighbors don’t like each other, he asks those questions. And when he comes up with an answer, he asks those questions again. Like a toddler that just learned that those two words even exist. He does this at least two layers deep, and if the answers are satisfactory he keeps them in the story (well, I’m sure there are exceptions). An Example of How This Works Story point: The enderman stepped through his front door and hit his…