Serveni — Player Guide

Address mc.serveni.nickb.de   Port 25565

Version 26.1.2 (Java Edition only). Older or newer clients can't connect — create a 1.21+ Installation for the matching version in the launcher.

Whitelist Yes — message the admin to be added. Include both your exact Minecraft username and your account UUID. Look it up at minecraftuuid.com: paste your username, click Lookup, and copy the UUID (with dashes) field.

Proximity voice via the Simple Voice Chat mod. You hear other players based on how close they are in-game. Vanilla clients hear nothing — everyone who wants voice has to install the client-side mod. The server side is already running.

Easiest install — via the Modrinth App (recommended if you've never installed a Minecraft mod):

1. Download & install the Modrinth App (free, official Modrinth tool, Windows/macOS/Linux).
2. Open it and sign in with your Minecraft (Microsoft) account.
3. Click Create custom instance:
   • Game version: 26.1.2 (must match the server exactly).
   • Loader: Fabric.
   • Give it any name (e.g. Serveni).
4. Open the new instance, go to the Content tab, click Add content, search Simple Voice Chat, click Install. The app pulls in Fabric API automatically.
5. Click Play. The Modrinth App launches Minecraft 26.1.2 with the mod loaded.
6. In Minecraft: Multiplayer → Add Server, address mc.serveni.nickb.de, join, and voice chat is live.

Alternative — via the official Minecraft Launcher (if you'd rather keep using the launcher you already have):

1. Download the Fabric Installer (the .exe on Windows, the .jar elsewhere).
2. Run it → Client tab → Minecraft Version: 26.1.2, Loader Version: latest → Install. Close it.
3. Open the Minecraft Launcher. A new fabric-loader-26.1.2 installation appears in the dropdown.
4. Download these two .jar files (make sure both are the Fabric + 26.1.2 versions):
   • Fabric API
   • Simple Voice Chat
5. Drop both .jar files into your mods folder (click a path below to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it into your file manager's address bar — File Explorer on Windows, Finder ⌘⇧G on macOS, your file-manager address bar on Linux):
   • Windows: %appdata%\.minecraft\mods\
   • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/mods/
   • Linux: ~/.minecraft/mods/
   If the mods folder doesn't exist, create it.
6. In the launcher, select the fabric-loader-26.1.2 installation, click Play, then add the server as above.

Using it in-game:

• V — push-to-talk (hold to speak, default keybind).
• V + click the gear icon — settings: change to voice-activation, pick microphone, set volumes, choose keybinds.
• M — mute yourself / unmute.
• N — toggle hide-icons (those green/yellow speech bubbles over players).

Troubleshooting:

• "Outdated client/server" when joining — your Fabric installation isn't on 26.1.2; make sure you launched the fabric-loader-26.1.2 profile (not the vanilla one).
• No "Voice Chat" button on the pause screen — the Simple Voice Chat jar isn't in your mods folder, or you didn't launch via the modded profile.
• Connected, can't hear anyone — open the in-game voice chat settings (gear icon), pick the right microphone and the right audio output, and make sure the input/output volumes aren't at zero.
• Connection icon in the top-right is red — the voice server (UDP 24454) isn't reachable from your network. Try a different network if you're on something restrictive (corporate / school WiFi often blocks this).

• map.serveni.nickb.de — BlueMap (3D, with live player markers).
• pl3xmap.serveni.nickb.de — Pl3xMap (2D top-down).

Both update live as the world changes. Useful for finding base, navigating, or showing off builds.

• /sethome <name> · /home <name> — manage personal homes (LuckPerms gate, ask admin if denied).
• /veinminer — toggle on/off, then sneak while breaking ores to vein-mine.
• /chunky — admin-only; pre-renders chunks so the maps fill in.
• F3 + B — show entity hitboxes (vanilla). Helpful around mob farms.

We use VanillaTweaks datapacks and crafting tweaks for quality-of-life additions. Most are passive (no commands needed — they just change loot tables, recipes, or drops). The ones that do expose interaction work through the vanilla /trigger system:

/trigger  ← press TAB; the chat will autocomplete every trigger
                 the enabled VT packs expose

Common ones you'll see if those packs are enabled:

• /trigger afk — flag yourself as AFK; your name dims in tab list.
• /trigger ch_help — Coordinates HUD: opens an in-game configuration menu.
• /trigger graves — open your last grave's inventory if the Graves pack is enabled.

Crafting tweaks (rotten flesh → leather, blackstone recipes, etc.) appear automatically in your crafting table when active — no command needed.

Note: VT packs are enabled per-world by the admin. If a /trigger autocomplete doesn't show what you expected, the pack might not be enabled on this world.

On first connect Minecraft prompts you to accept a server resource pack. Accepting is recommended — some VT crafting tweaks and datapacks rely on its custom item textures and models to render correctly. It downloads from packs.serveni.nickb.de in the background.

Built from VanillaTweaks — Resource Packs (Vanilla Tweaks 26.1). Contents grouped by category:

3D models — flat textures replaced with real geometry:

• 3DBushes · 3DChains · 3DMace · 3DLadders · 3DRails · 3DIronBars · 3DSugarcane · 3DLilyPads · 3DMushrooms · 3DStonecutters · 3DAmethyst · 3DRedstoneWire · FencierFences

Variety & randomized variants — same block, more textures so the world looks less repetitive:

• VariatedVillagers · VariatedPumpkins · VariatedBookshelves · VariatedFireflyBushes · OffsetBushes · CircleLogTops · HDShieldBanners · SmileyAxolotls · GroovyLevers

Visual fixes & polish — small quality-of-life tweaks:

• StickyPistonSides — marks the sticky side on retracted sticky pistons.
• ConsistentDecorPot, ConsistentBucketFix, NoBowlParticles, ItemHoldFix — minor inconsistency fixes in vanilla item textures/handling.
• UniqueDyes — each dye looks distinct (instead of palette-shifted copies).
• UniqueAxolotlBuckets — bucket art matches the captured axolotl color.
• PingColorIndicator — tab-list connection bars get a color tied to ping (green → red).
• LowerShield — shields sit lower in first-person so they don't block your view as much.
• CompassLodestone — visually distinct compass for lodestone-bound compasses.
• DifferentStems — melon and pumpkin stems look different from each other (and from each growth stage).
• Age25Kelp — kelp shows 25 growth stages instead of vanilla's blocky transitions.
• VisualSaplingGrowth, VisualHoney — saplings and honey blocks visually reflect growth/fill level.

Tool wear visualization:

• DiminishingTools — tool models physically shrink as durability drops.
• CopperToolOxidization — copper tools (1.21+) oxidize over time on the model itself.
• CopperToolOxidization+DiminishingTools — combined override so the two packs play nicely together.

Twenty VanillaTweaks datapacks plus our own loadout datapack are loaded on this world. Most are passive (just changed behavior); the ones with explicit interaction work through /trigger (TAB-complete it to see every available trigger).

• afk display — your name dims in tab list and chat after a few minutes idle. Use /trigger afk to toggle manually.
• armored elytra — combine an elytra with a chestplate at an anvil; the resulting elytra has the chestplate's armor + enchants.
• armor statues — right-click an armor stand with a stick to pose/rotate it; flint-and-steel toggles arms, gravity, base plate, etc.
• chunk loaders — permanent player-placed chunk loaders. Recipe in your crafting book once unlocked.
• double shulker shells — shulkers drop 2 shells instead of 1, so boxes don't require breeding farms.
• durability ping — chat warning when an armor/tool gets low on durability.
• ender chest always drops — broken ender chests drop themselves instead of obsidian (pickaxe optional).
• mini blocks — decorative miniature versions of vanilla blocks via /trigger miniblocks.
• more mob heads — nearly every mob has a small chance to drop its own head when killed (higher chance with a Looting sword).
• multiplayer sleep — night skips when enough players are in beds (percentage configurable; default ~50%).
• player head drops — players drop their own head when killed by another player.
• real time clock — a clock that displays the actual real-world time, not Minecraft time.
• silence mobs — rename a name tag to silence_me and apply it to any mob to silence its ambient sounds.
• spawning spheres — /trigger spheres visualizes the mob-spawning region around you (helpful when designing mob farms).
• spectator conduit power — you keep conduit power while in spectator mode.
• spectator night vision — permanent night vision while in spectator.
• track statistics — opt-in scoreboard tracking via /trigger; see deaths, mob kills, blocks placed, distances, etc.
• track raw statistics — the unfiltered raw-stat version of the above (more numbers, less polish).
• wandering trades — vastly improves the wandering trader's inventory (rare blocks, head drops from older versions, etc.).
• xp bottling — convert your XP into bottles using /trigger bottle — useful before risky journeys.

Local datapack:

• loadout — admin-only command that drops a fully-enchanted kit (armor, weapons, tools, tridents, fireworks) for testing or new worlds. Players don't normally need this.

• Universal Dyeing — you can re-dye blocks that are already a color, instead of needing to break them down. Works for candles, concrete powder, glazed terracotta, stained glass (and panes), and terracotta. Recipe: surround the dye with 8 of the colored block in the crafting table (same shape as the original recipe).

Ping the admin in voice chat or message them directly. Include:

• What you were doing when it broke.
• Coordinates (F3 → XYZ block).
• The exact wording of any error you saw in chat.