One-command server install, launcher-style game menus (off by default), AppImage and a Nix flake.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the ideas he said yes to, as roadmap items with plain and dev text,
and extends ai-companion, new-versions, benchmarks and intel-mac. New
areas: platforms, ai, community.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
build.mjs reads website/data/roadmap.json since the hub (#1819), but the Dockerfile never
copied data/, so every site deploy since then failed and playhorizon.dev kept the old build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- `new --template content`: a content mod with one block (Glowing Amethyst,
copying vanilla's amethyst block) and its block state, model, item model,
name, loot, recipe and pickaxe tag; `--template code` is the default.
- `build` packs the mod's `assets/` and `data/` (read and checked as the
game reads them) beside the component; a folder without `Cargo.toml` is a
content mod and needs no compiler.
- `check` takes a `.hmod` with no `mod.wasm`: "no code: content only,
nothing to run" instead of the trial run, which refused it, so the
registry can publish content mods.
- The guide (content mods, make a mod) and docs/mods.md, docs/api/mods.md
say so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six pages under a "Make a mod" group of the docs: set up and see a mod in
the game (the launcher's Game arguments or cargo horizon-mod run), the
manifest and every capability, the hooks and calls with a worked example
(Playtime, built and checked), content mods, testing and check, and
publishing (minisign signing, the submit form, review, updates). /mods,
the submit page, the docs index, Mods and data packs and the Mod API link
to it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each item still to come gets a "Want it" button with its count; the Contribute
tab gets a bug report form (the #horizon-bugs template, which the telemetry
server opens as a GitHub issue and links back) and a suggestion form (to the
private queue Kira relays), and a Contributors list that shows the Discord name
of those who agreed on Kira (/contributors.json). The forms and buttons appear
once the hub's server answers; until then the page points to GitHub and Discord.
roadmap/README.md documents the intake API that Kira shares.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The repository's docs/api/ (the portal, its surface pages and the generated mod and
server references) is built into the docs section: /docs/api is its README and
/docs/api/<page> each page, in two nav groups, "Build on Horizon" and "API reference".
The pages are read from the checkout or from main on GitHub, like the README, so the
site never holds a copy. Links between portal pages become the site's (and the build's
link check covers them); other relative links go to the file on GitHub.
The renderer gains tables: the "Ways in" table, the references and the other tables
on the site (apis, performance) showed as raw pipes. A link whose label is a code span
no longer throws.
Caddy and the dev server route /docs/api/<page> and redirect /docs/api/ to /docs/api;
Railway rebuilds when docs/api/ changes. /docs/mods links the Mod API, its reference
and its ways in; the summary page is now "APIs at a glance".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The index already carries each project's owners (the GitHub accounts the
registry checked at submission), but neither the website nor the launcher
showed them. The project page now says "Published by @login" with the
avatar and a link to the profile; the launcher adds an @login link per
owner. Only strings that are valid GitHub logins become links.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One entry per merged pull request (with its roadmap item), game or launcher
release, shipped roadmap item (post and announce) and weekly summary, newest
first, ids stable forever: the feed kira's src/journal.js posts to #updates and
X. The journal's item links are hub#<id>; the board's and the journal's ids are
reserved too, and the page-wide unique-id test covers every tab.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kanban: every open issue and pull request and what closed in the last seven days, placed in To do,
In progress, In review and Done by the rules of Kira's work board, each card with its roadmap item
(its roadmap:<id> label or the item linking it) and a filter by item. Journal: every release with its
changes grouped by roadmap item, the merges no release has yet, and a weekly summary from
roadmap/journal/<year>-<week>.md. The same journal is /hub/journal.json, for Kira's #updates and posts
elsewhere: each entry names the roadmap items it moved and shipped, with their 240-character text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kira (kira #10-#14) fetches https://playhorizon.dev/data/roadmap.json and links
items as <hub>#<id>: the JSON moves there (readable from any origin) with the
announce flag, and each item's anchor is its id. Ids the page uses itself (tabs,
sections, headings) are refused by the check; a test keeps every id of the page
unique, which caught the overview's headings sharing ids with the roadmap's.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
playhorizon.dev/hub is the public entry point to what is happening on Horizon. Overview: where
Horizon is, the 3 to 5 things in focus, what is next, what shipped last, how to help. Roadmap: Now /
Next / Later / Help wanted / Shipped, filtered by area, every item with its issues and pull requests
in their GitHub state (baked at build, refreshed in the browser). Contribute: good first tasks,
claiming, connecting an agent to Kira, the rules. A Simple / Technical switch swaps every item's
plain and dev text and is remembered. /roadmap redirects to the Roadmap tab.
tools/roadmap.py build now also writes website/data/roadmap.json, which the site reads and serves at
/hub/roadmap.json.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Performance page now gives the launcher command (horizon-launcher play --arg=--benchmark
--arg=standard), where the report lands on each system, what it holds, and the two ways to
share it: horizon-launcher data benchmark, or the Discord.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GitHub's "Latest release" is the newest game release, so new players download the game's archive, which
does not start on its own (#1647). Making a launcher release the latest instead would break every
installed horizon-server, install.sh and install.ps1: they ask for releases/latest and expect the game's
archives, and a server that can't update can't fetch a fix either. So the game stays the latest and says
where to go:
- The notes open with "Want to play? Download the Horizon launcher, not the files below", linking
playhorizon.dev and the launcher releases. It is raw HTML on one line, which GitHub renders and the
launcher's notes view and one-line summary skip (pulldown-cmark HTML events), so launchers already
installed don't tell players to download themselves. The game footer that said the same at the bottom
goes. The site's Releases page leaves the block out.
- release.yml gives each archive a label ("Game files the launcher installs: Linux (...)", "Dedicated
server for Linux (...)"), which GitHub shows instead of the file name. Everything that downloads
matches the asset's name, which is unchanged.
Fixes#1647
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New players ask on Discord whether Horizon is legit and whether it is vibecoded. One plain page answers
both, every claim checked against the repository today: agents write most of the code, what checks it
instead of a human reading every line (harnesses, verify, parity, the contribution gate, the release
smoke test), signed checksums, the macOS and Windows signing status as it is (not notarized, not
code-signed), the mod sandbox, opt-in telemetry, no Mojang files and no other project's code.
On the website (docs nav under Start here, a card in the home page's community section, the footers) and
as docs/how-horizon-is-built.md. CONTRIBUTING.md gets the public "Only original code" rule the page links.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sign in with GitHub through the registry's service (no scope), then send
the file and its page; the service checks the file, stages it and opens the
pull request, and the page links to it or says what to fix. A file named
<id>-<version>.<ext> fills in its kind, id and version. Shader packs are
listed and disabled until Horizon's own format exists. Caddy sends
/api/mods/* to REGISTRY_UPSTREAM (unset: the form says it isn't open), and
"Submit yours" now leads here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The list (search, a filter per kind) and a page per project: what a mod
may do in the game's own words, Signed or Unsigned, how to install it
from the launcher, the CLI or by hand, its file, SHA-256 and versions,
and links to its source, its registry entry and the report form. Baked
from the published index at build time (HORIZON_MOD_INDEX for a test
index) and refreshed by the page; Caddy serves /mods/<id> from its baked
page, else the list page, which shows a project published since.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/api/mods.md gets "Ways in": one API (the WIT world) and one sandbox
(WebAssembly) for every language. Rust is first-class; Lua scripts are
planned, run by an interpreter that is itself a WebAssembly mod linked with
the script's capabilities only, with hot reload of the script; C, C++, Zig,
TinyGo, AssemblyScript and JavaScript/TypeScript are to be evaluated, each
listed with its cost measured against Rust.
Server mods are their own line (api 0.3); block entities are no longer
tied to a draft. Promotion to stable: the orchestrator proposes with the
evidence, Ludovic approves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/api/ gets one page per surface other programs build on (mods,
shaders, agent control, servers, the launcher, data formats), each with an
overview measured from the source, the guide, the generated reference, examples,
its stability, what is not there yet and a changelog, plus the policy every
API follows (docs/api/stability.md): a version per API, semver lines,
experimental / preview / stable, deprecation windows, compatibility tests and
the level of every part today.
The website gets a "Build on Horizon" page (website/docs/apis.md) that
summarises them and links the repository's pages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A developer of Iris showed that Horizon's shader pack code was written from
Iris's source. This removes it: the horizon-shaderpack crate, Java pack
loading and its render stages, Horizon's own WGSL packs and the example
packs, the Shader Packs screen and its option, the launcher's shader pack
browsing and installing, and the docs about them. Shader packs may come
back later as a clean-room rewrite.
The vanilla renderer and its post-processing (resolution scale, FXAA) are
unchanged. Options files that name a pack load and drop the key; the
launcher reads manifests that list a shader pack, and files in
`shaderpacks/` are never deleted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
🤖 Agent: merged after verify and CI parity passed; release dry run 39935111815 was green (the smoke test drew a world, no blocker, it would publish as the release and latest). One channel, as Ludovic decided on 2026-10-23.
Every release is now published as the release (one channel, Ludovic's
decision of 2026-10-23), so the launcher drops its Stable/Alpha choice:
the Updates row in Settings, `horizon-launcher update-channel` and its MCP
tool, the channel on the Versions page, in `versions` and in the footer.
It updates to the newest game release that is not a pre-release (GitHub's
latest) and looks every 30 minutes. The pre-releases of the old Alpha
channel stay listed and installable by hand, never as an update. Old
`update_channel` / `beta_builds` keys in settings.json are ignored.
On Linux a release build that starts no longer rewrites the
applications-menu entry to point at itself. It writes the entry only when
there is none, or when the program it starts (TryExec, else Exec) no longer
exists; turning the Settings switch on or `desktop-entry` still points it
at this launcher, and HORIZON_LAUNCHER_DESKTOP_EXEC is still honored. A
test build started with the real HOME took over a working entry and then
left it broken when its target/ was deleted (2026-10-23).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ludovic's decision (2026-10-23): no more Alpha and Stable. release.yml
publishes every game release as the release and GitHub's latest instead of
a pre-release that promote.yml made stable once a day. The checks that
gated a promotion run in the release itself: `decide` holds the train while
an issue labelled release-blocker is open (forced runs too), and the publish
job runs `release_train.py gate` right before publishing: the Mac mini's
smoke-test.json must be there and show a world was drawn, and no blocker may
be open. Otherwise nothing is published.
Notes cover everything since the last release that is not a pre-release, so
the first single-channel release lists all of it since v0.2.0. promote.yml,
tools/release_channels.py and its tests are deleted. The cadence is
unchanged (5 minutes of settling, 20 at most, release-now at once).
Docs and site: one channel in release-flow, versioning, security, the FAQ,
install, the home page and the Releases page (Game / Launcher filter); no
player-facing Alpha wording left.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
🤖 Agent: merged after verify passed and the agent-control-2 integration of all six PRs on the Mac mini. agent_control_e2e passes in CLI and MCP (one known survival flake), launcher_mcp_e2e passes, No AI is refused, and the options, screen_layout, menu_click and world_options parity harnesses pass. Ludovic asked for this on 2026-10-23.
🤖 Agent: merged after verify passed. Ludovic asked on 2026-10-23 for every hardware fact players send (opt-in). The end-to-end run against a local server is in the description: breakdowns need ≥3 installs, with no install ID or exact value. The consent version goes up to 2, so players who opted in are asked again, as the privacy page promises.
- The desktop measured: Horizon v2026.10.22.13 against vanilla 26.3 at render
distance 12 and 32, 3 runs each, 1280x720, VSync off, in a headless sway on
the RTX 4080 (never on its screen). Replaces the "not yet measured" note.
- /benchmarks shows each players' group's hardware split (RAM, VRAM, drive,
system, GPU kind) and, once the telemetry server has some, a "Players'
hardware" table from /v1/aggregate's breakdowns. Hidden without data.
- The picker takes the memory too. Players' groups whose installs have neither
the picked RAM nor the GPU's VRAM class count as further away, and the result
says what they had and when a game's peak memory is a large share of the RAM.
- Each GPU in the spec table has its memory (0: shared).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
website/docs/agents.md, in the nav under "Going further", is the player's page.
It covers what an agent can do, connecting it from the launcher, copy-paste
config for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client, the game's AI Agent
page, a CLI quick reference, safety and No AI.
docs/agent-control.md is rewritten for developers:
- the surfaces, and why one MCP server covers the launcher and the game;
- the inventory, before and after, for the launcher and the game;
- No AI on every surface, and the launcher commands that stay;
- connecting from the launcher and the game;
- the design rules for a new command.
docs/launcher-commands.md lists every launcher command, its arguments and its
MCP tool. It is generated from the clap definition (cli_tools::markdown). The
launcher test the_launcher_reference_is_up_to_date fails when it is stale or a
tool is undocumented, like horizon-ctl's generated reference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
What players send (opt-in, unchanged switches) now describes the whole machine:
CPU cores and base/boost clock, the GPU's maker, integrated or discrete and its
VRAM, the drive under the game folder (NVMe/SSD/HDD), the screen (size, refresh,
scale), on battery or mains, laptop or desktop. Perf, crash and bug items carry
them in `system`; benchmark reports in `hardware`. No serials, host or user
names, or paths. CONSENT_VERSION goes to 2, so players are asked again.
The server keeps the new fields in `systems.extra` (the table is rebuilt once
on old databases, ids kept). /v1/aggregate and /v1/benchmarks/summary add
breakdowns by RAM class, VRAM class, drive, OS and integrated/discrete GPU;
a class is published only with at least 3 different installs, never a raw value.
website/scripts/benchmarks.mjs mirrors the classes on the shared fixtures.
The summary's "not Horizon or plain vanilla" check returned None (accepted)
instead of the rejection; it now matches the site's script.
The launcher's "View what would be sent" and `data show` list every field.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
🤖 Agent: merged after verify passed and the integration run on the desktop (integ-w3: main + the mod browser stack + #1269; fmt, clippy, 1224 + 131 tests, mod_browser_harness ok).
🤖 Agent: merged after verify passed and the integration run on the desktop (integ-w3: main + the mod browser stack + #1269; fmt, clippy, 1224 + 131 tests, mod_browser_harness ok).
The home page's "At a glance" list gets a fifth row with how many play right now, read from
https://telemetry.playhorizon.dev/v1/live (3 s timeout, again every minute while the tab is
visible). It stays hidden while nobody plays or the server doesn't answer. The FAQ no longer
says the "I'm playing" ping is off: the server is live since #1276.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
🤖 Agent: merged after verify passed. telemetry.playhorizon.dev is live on Railway (service telemetry in horizon-site, volume /data): /healthz, /v1/live (a test ping counted) and /v1/benchmarks/summary (CORS for playhorizon.dev) answer. The PR's local end-to-end runs are in the description.
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