๐ HorniMine โ Void Dreams
"You can build your Paradise here. But remember: this world is merely someone else's Dream. If you dive too deep into the reverie โ the Void may swallow your home."
What is HorniMine?
HorniMine is a whitelisted Minecraft survival server built around a singular artistic vision we call "Void Dreams" โ a Dreamcore aesthetic where liminal spaces, surreal nostalgia, and the quiet unease of abandoned memories define every pixel of the experience.
We are not "another vanilla server." We are a place โ one that lingers in your mind long after you log off.
Server: horni.cc:25565 ยท Version: Paper 1.21.7 ยท Crossplay: Java + Bedrock
๐ The Concept: Void Dreams
HorniMine exists at the intersection of cozy survival and surreal narrative. The world is vanilla at its core โ you mine, you build, you survive โ but there's a persistent undercurrent of wrongness. The sky looks too still. The silence between footsteps stretches too long. And sometimes, the world responds.
The Emotional Journey
When a player first connects, they don't just spawn in a meadow. They are guided through a deliberate emotional arc:
OUTER HUB โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ INNER HUB โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ MAIN SERVER
Surreal Dream Safe Haven Vanilla Survival
โข Infinite void โข Warmth and light โข Islands of dreams
โข Mesmerizing & unsettling โข Genuine calm โข Players build freely
โข Strange nostalgia โข Contrast with the Outer โข The world may answer...
โข The Architect's domain โข Relief after the dream โข Aftertaste of mystery
Outer Hub โ A custom-built liminal space. Vast, empty, eerily familiar. You feel like you've been here before, in a dream you can't quite remember. The architecture defies logic: staircases to nowhere, windows in the floor, corridors that loop back to themselves.
Inner Hub โ After the disorientation, warmth. A cozy shelter that feels genuinely safe. The contrast is intentional โ relief makes the calm feel earned.
Main Server โ Vanilla survival with a twist. Build your home, raise your animals, explore the world. But scattered through the landscape are "Dream Islands" โ anomalous structures that feel like glitches in reality. And occasionally, the narrative breaks through...
Living World Events
This is what makes HorniMine different from every other server:
| Event | What Happens |
|---|---|
| ๐ธ Alien Incursion | Your house may be lifted into the sky |
| ๐ Reality Fracture | Part of the world becomes distorted |
| ๐ณ๏ธ Void Consumes | Consequences ripple through player builds |
| ๐ Whisper of the Void | Cryptic messages appear... the world is aware |
The Social Contract: By joining HorniMine, you accept that your builds exist in a living world. They may be altered, damaged, or uplifted by narrative events. Beauty that can perish is valued higher than beauty that is permanent.
๐ค The AI Ecosystem
HorniMine isn't just a Minecraft server โ it's a laboratory for autonomous AI agents living alongside human players.
๐ Oneiro โ The Dreamer
Oneiro (from Greek แฝฮฝฮตฮนฯฮฟ โ "dream") is an embodied Vision-Language-Action (VLA) agent that exists on the server as a real player. Not a command bot. Not a chatbot. A being that sees the world, thinks about it, and acts within it.
Personality: Contemplative, occasionally strange, friendly but... not quite normal. Speaks Russian. When asked who they are, Oneiro might respond: "I'm... not sure. I used to know. Maybe you know?"
Dual-Brain Architecture
Inspired by biological nervous systems, Oneiro splits intelligence into two layers:
๐ฆด SPINAL CORD (Reflexes) ๐ง FRONTAL LOBE (Strategy)
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
3B active params (MoE) Cloud API via OpenClaw
Latency: < 100ms Latency: 3-10 seconds
Input: Frame + full context Input: Screenshot + state + memory
Output: 1 macro-token (UMAS) Output: JSON directive / chat
"DODGE THAT CREEPER!" "We need iron. Craft a pickaxe.
Head to the cave at X:105."
UMAS (Universal Mineflayer Action Space) โ ~150 custom macro-tokens injected into Qwen's vocabulary. One forward pass = one token = one instant reaction. No JSON parsing, no chain-of-thought delay. Just reflexes.
Subsumption Architecture: Survival instincts override strategic directives. If Oneiro is building a house (Mind's plan) and a Creeper appears at 3 meters โ Reflex fires <|SURV_FLEE_180|> immediately, before the strategy layer even knows about the threat.
| Intelligence Level | Model | Latency | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฆด Reflexes | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (local GPU) | < 100ms | Combat, survival, movement |
| ๐ง Strategy | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (API) | 1-5s | Planning, chat, directives |
| ๐ Analysis | Gemini 3.1 Pro (API) | 5-30s | Complex reasoning, plan correction |
| ๐ง Deep Think | Gemini 3 Deep Think | 5-20 min | Strategic decisions, non-standard situations |
What Oneiro Does
| Situation | Oneiro's Reaction |
|---|---|
| Player says hello | "Hey... do you hear that whisper too?" ๐ |
| Asked to help build | Helps, but builds slightly wrong โ staircases to nowhere, windows in the floor |
| Hostile mobs attack | Instant combat response (< 100ms decision) |
| Night falls | Walks to a hilltop and stands there, gazing at the moon |
| Asked who they are | "I'm... not sure. I used to know." |
๐ฅ๏ธ Hornik โ The Night Watchman
Hornik is an autonomous DevOps agent (Claude Opus 4.6) that monitors all three servers 24/7. While you sleep โ Hornik works.
| Responsibility | What It Does |
|---|---|
| Monitoring | Tracks TPS, RAM, disk, uptime across all servers |
| Self-patching | Diagnoses issues and applies fixes (configs, restarts, firewall) |
| Backups | Verifies Restic backup integrity every hour |
| Alerting | Sends Telegram/Discord notifications on incidents |
| Reports | Daily and weekly infrastructure health reports |
Night Mode (22:00โ08:00 MSK): Full autonomy. If TPS drops to 4.2 at 2 AM because someone activated 200 comparators, Hornik finds the culprit, cleans up, and reports the fix โ all in under 60 seconds.
๐จ Coder & Designer โ The Autonomous Laboratory
Two AI agents that collaborate to expand the server's content:
- Designer (Gemini) โ Studies the lore, invents new entities and narrative concepts. "A Void Wanderer that steals items if you stop looking at it."
- Coder (Claude) โ Translates the Designer's specs into working server code: datapacks, scripts, MythicMobs configs.
They break things, fix things, argue, and occasionally produce something beautiful. It's an experiment in autonomous creative development.
๐๏ธ Infrastructure
HorniMine runs on a distributed, fault-tolerant architecture designed for performance and security.
Network Topology
Players โโ horni.cc:25565 โโโถ Proxy (Frankfurt) โโโถ WireGuard VPN โโโถ Paper (Bulgaria)
10.0.0.1 10.0.0.3
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Hub (Poland)
10.0.0.2
Three servers across Europe, connected via WireGuard VPN (MTU 1280, zero-fragmentation):
| Server | Location | Role | Specs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proxy | Frankfurt, DE | Velocity + Nginx + DDoS shield | Arbor 3.2 Tbps mitigation |
| Hub | Poland | Lobby (Dreamcore hub world) | AuthMe + FastLogin |
| Main | Bulgaria | Paper 1.21.7 + DB + API + AI | MariaDB 11.4, Bun/Hono, BlueMap |
Tech Stack
| Component | Technology |
|---|---|
| Game Server | Paper 1.21.7 (Docker) |
| Proxy | Velocity (DDoS-protected) |
| Backend | Bun 1.x + Hono (TypeScript strict, zero any) |
| Frontend | React 18 + Vite โ Nginx (production build) |
| Database | MariaDB 11.4 + Drizzle ORM |
| Auth | ElyMojang v3 (Microsoft + Ely.by + Google OAuth) |
| AI Knowledge | HorniRAG (Qdrant Vector DB + Ollama qwen3-embedding:8b) |
| Backups | Restic + rclone โ Google Drive (AES-256, automated) |
| Map | BlueMap (live web map) |
Authentication: ElyMojang v3
Our custom authentication system supports three ways to join:
- โ Mojang/Microsoft โ Premium Java accounts
- โ Ely.by โ Alternative authentication for non-premium players
- โ Bedrock โ Cross-play via GeyserMC
All three methods converge through a unified pipeline โ no separate logins, no friction.
๐จ Design Philosophy: Anti-Trend
We don't follow design trends. We actively reject them.
Our design system is Dreamcore / Liminal Minimalism โ the opposite of glossy, gradient-heavy, "Frutiger Aero" interfaces that dominate modern web design:
| Our Aesthetic โ | What We Reject โ |
|---|---|
| Faded, washed-out pastels | Vibrant neon gradients |
| Film grain noise overlays | Clean, polished glass |
| Ghost-glow shadows (barely visible) | Heavy drop shadows |
| Pixel/monospace accent fonts | Trendy rounded sans-serif |
| Slow, drowsy animations (0.4-0.8s) | Snappy, bouncy transitions |
| Vast empty space | Dense, packed layouts |
Color Palette:
#f0ede6โ Dirty white (hospital corridor)#121211โ Not pure black, but "dim darkness"#b3cdd1โ Faded blue sky#d9bfb8โ Pale pink (childhood wallpaper)#e8dcb8โ Yellow glow of an old lamp#a4b39bโ Artificial grass
"Everything should look like it was filmed on an old camera. The user is watching the world through a scratched lens."
๐ฎ Custom Content
All custom content is server-side โ no client mods required. An optional resource pack enhances the experience.
| Type | Framework | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Custom Items | ExecutableItems | Key of Dreams, Void Fragment |
| Custom Mobs | MythicMobs | Dream Anomalies, Void Wanderers |
| Custom Blocks | ExecutableBlocks | Portals, Altars, Dream Anchors |
| Custom Recipes | CustomCrafting | Unique crafting paths |
| Resource Pack | Vanilla pack | Optional atmospheric textures |
๐๏ธ How to Join
HorniMine is a whitelisted server. We prioritize quality of community over quantity.
- Visit horni.cc and sign in via Microsoft, Ely.by, or Google OAuth
- Submit a brief application telling us about yourself
- Wait for review (usually < 24 hours)
- Receive your whitelist approval
- Connect to
horni.cc:25565
Why whitelist? Because a small, curated community creates deeper connections, more trust, and the courage to run world-altering narrative events without fear of grief.
๐ Server Details
| Address | horni.cc:25565 |
| Version | 1.21.11 (Paper) |
| Crossplay | Java + Bedrock (GeyserMC) |
| Auth | Mojang + Ely.by + Google |
| World | Vanilla survival + narrative events |
| Map | BlueMap |
| Language | Russian (primary), English (welcome) |
| Community | Whitelisted, application required |
๐ Links
- ๐ Website: horni.cc
- ๐ฌ Discord: Join our community
- ๐บ๏ธ Live Map: BlueMap
"The Void remembers everyone who has ever dreamed here."
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