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Useful Resources & Links ​

This page provides a collection of useful tools, websites, and resources to help you maintain your Minecraft server and MineAcademy plugins. These resources are recommended by our development team and community.

🎮 Minecraft Server Resources ​

  • MiniMessage Viewer - Preview and test MiniMessage formatting for Minecraft chat messages.
  • Color Codes - A comprehensive list of all Minecraft color and formatting codes for use in plugin configurations.
  • JSON Generator - Create interactive chat messages with clickable elements, hoverable text, and advanced formatting.

🔒 Security & Protection Resources ​

📝 Text Editors ​

Recommended

These editors properly handle UTF-8 encoding, which is crucial for plugin configuration files:

  • Notepad++ - A powerful yet lightweight text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting and proper encoding support.
  • Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor with a beautiful interface and advanced features.

Not Recommended

  • Windows Notepad / WordPad - These editors do not properly handle UTF-8 encoding and can corrupt your configuration files. Use with extreme caution!
  • macOS TextEdit - This default macOS editor may save files with incorrect encoding or formatting, potentially corrupting your configuration files. Avoid using it for editing plugin configurations.

🛠️ Troubleshooting Tools ​

  • YAML Parser - Validate your YAML syntax and identify errors in configuration files.
  • JSON Validator - Check your JSON syntax for localization files and other JSON configurations.
  • Pastebin - Share error logs, configuration files, and code snippets with syntax highlighting.

📚 Learning & Support ​

  • MineAcademy Discord - Join our community for direct support, updates, and discussions.
  • Project Orion - Learn to create your own Minecraft plugins. This course has helped over 4,000 students become plugin developers.

🐉 Cool Plugins ​