ZaneMCXVII

Custom Blocks without Resource Packs (Minecraft 1.21.4)

It's possible to make Player Heads the size of full blocks by putting them into an item display,
then changing the scale of the item display to 2 on every axis.

This is useful because Player Heads are the only block that you can change the texture of without a resource pack,
as the texture is stored in the item components as one (or both) of the following:

1. The username of the player whose skin should be used. (as seen in the example command)
2. A Base64-encoded link to a skin texture on Minecraft's servers.

0xdevalias

Reverse engineering ChatGPT's frontend web app + deep dive explorations of the code

Figured it would make sense to create a single gist collating my previous deep dive explorations and notes.. so here it is!

Table of Contents

• My Deep Dives (and others past feature leaks)
  • Jun 14th, 2023 (and all future updates)
• Jun 13th, 2023

scivision

Extract Zstd archives with Python

Uses compression.zstd (Python 3.14+) or zstandard (Python < 3.14) to extract Zstandard-compressed files and archives.

• .zst files (raw Zstandard-compressed single files)
• .tar.zst archives

dorneanu

Implementing a basic plugin architecture shouldn't be a complicated task. The solution described here is working but you still have to import every plugin (inheriting from the base class).

This is my solution:

Basic project structure

$ tree