Articles by Emily Chen
- BetterF3 20.0.0 lands on Minecraft 26.3 with a sidebar fix
- Minecraft light levels explained: block light, sky light and what reads which
- Puzzle mod review: the OptiFine features Sodium and Iris left behind
- Golden Days resource pack review: old Minecraft, restored in layers
- Geophilic 3.7 reaches 26.3 with a bone meal fix
- Whimscape resource pack review: a 16x pack that softens vanilla instead of replacing it
- Unique Dark review: a dark GUI, and every functional block told apart
- Statues: build the volume, then carve it
- Custom trees: the vanilla ones are making your build look worse
- Waterfronts: the dock is holding nothing up
- The resource packs with millions of downloads that nobody writes about
- Modular building: how to repeat a unit without it looking copied
- Sound packs: the resource pack category nobody installs
- Fusion lands on 26.3, and on NeoForge it is currently the only option
- Building on a slope: foundations, terracing and the flat pad problem
- Bridges: spans, supports and why yours looks like it is floating
- Xaero’s Minimap and JourneyMap both reach 26.3
- Sodium, Iris and Fabric API are already on 26.3 – what to check before you update
- Furnishing a room without a furniture mod
- Twenty years on: where experimental game design went, and why it ended up in a toggle menu
- Deckbuilders: why a visible strategy is a better one
- Additional Structures review: 200 small structures that do not announce themselves
- Underwater bases: solving the construction before the design
- Paths, fences and walls: the Minecraft building details nobody plans for
- Chat Heads 0.15.7 fixes head positioning with TalkArea
- BetterNether review: making the nether somewhere you want to spend time
- Migrating a modded server to a new Minecraft version
- Minecraft’s 2025, drop by drop: Spring to Life, Chase the Skies, The Copper Age and Mounts of Mayhem
- Weather, snow and ice in Minecraft: how biome temperature decides what falls
- Mod Menu ships an alpha on a 26.3 snapshot, seven weeks before release
- Spectators can interact, and exclusive fullscreen is causing crashes
- How to build a Minecraft roof that does not look like a box with a hat
- Terralith 2.6.3 adds geysers and folds Chaos Cubed materials into its biomes
- Why the Dota 2 meta turns over so fast: patches, reworks and a competitive scene built around them
- Building an exploration world: which structure mods to install, and in what proportion
- Trading halls and the zombie discount: how to get Mending for one emerald
- Windows: framing, recessing and why yours look like holes
- Enchanting explained: bookshelves, level costs and the anvil penalty that breaks your gear
- Traveler’s Backpack review: the inventory mod that solves the right problem
- Dear Esther and the label that became a genre
- AppleSkin and REI ship for 26.1.2 the day before Chaos Cubed
- Towns and Towers review: the mod that makes Minecraft villages worth visiting
- Mojang reverted an exploit fix in Pre-Release 3 – and explained why
- Minecraft village seeds: how to find one worth starting a world on
- The battle royale scoring problem, and how Apex solved it
- Building mods that add blocks without adding systems, and why they are worth it
- Learning from generated structures: what village and outpost designs teach builders
- Better Clouds review: volumetric clouds that still look like Minecraft
- Dying in Minecraft: how to get your stuff back, and what you cannot recover
- How to install a Minecraft mod: the whole process, start to finish
- Bare Bones review: the resource pack that makes Minecraft look like its own trailers
- MCSR Ranked Season 10 begins: how the Minecraft speedrun ladder works
- flOw to Journey: how a student thesis became thatgamecompany