What’s New?
NEW SMP COMING SOON!
Our new solar-powered modded multiplayer survival server (phew!) is launching soon!
Watch the teaser trailer below, and click the button to learn more.
SunBlock One
SunBlock is a solar powered modded Minecraft server with custom mods that give access to real-time data about the energy consumption and production of the system as a condition of possibility for playing the game. Rather than just playing a game with a message around energy transition, we are endeavoring to provide a direct, tangible and playable experience of the energy infrastructures which make that experience possible.
LEARN MOREWhat is the Fun Palace?
On October 13th, 2023, the Minecraft Bloc research group at the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) lab brought the avant-garde 1963 “Fun Palace” by Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, and contributors into the world of MINECRAFT!
LEARN MORELatest Musings
The Larch
At least as far as our current playtest goes, I think we have succeeded in offering an opportunity for players to think about trees in way they usually don’t in Minecraft. We are mindful that we are not attempting to produce any kind of ecological simulation however. This is not a game about ecology or dendrology (the study of trees) but an allegorical prompt about players’ relationship to climate in general and trees in particular all in reference to our experience and understanding of how Minecraft is normally played.
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Look At The Computer
There are so many different connections. Is the server connected to the battery? To the controller? To the panels? To the power supply? To the internet? Am I connected to the internet? Can I connect to the server? Are the Minecraft authentication servers down? Do I have the right password, the right IP address, the right port, the right account, the right profile, the right amperage, the right solder, the right room?
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Designing Minecraft Spaces
Sometimes, when I build, it’s because I want to share the space with someone else. A base becomes a space for friendship, and collaboration. A house serves as proof of my participation on the server, and where I locate myself according to the other players changes how they will interact with me online. Design becomes a negotiation when you decide to settle down with another player, especially when that means sharing a storage system. Your building becomes a space for shared memory, where someone other than yourself can move through it, notice it, and respond to it.
Read moreWhat do we do?
