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
Spinal Landscapes
This sort of playtesting is emotionally fraught. On one level, you have helped make a Thing that you enjoy using with others. On another, you are supposed to break the Thing, coldly and systematically, and to be able to describe what you did and what happened in a manner that’s useful to your teammates writing the code, to prevent others from experiencing what you have just experienced. But if you begin to suspect that the problem with the Thing you have been talking about for the last hour is not systemic but local to you and your ancient, crumbly potato of a computer, the situation becomes more complex, because you begin to worry, with more than a little shame, that you may have been crying wolf (lizard) all along, and that your friends and teammates have better things to do than sort out your incompetent ravings.
Read moreThe 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?
Read moreWhat do we do?
