HorniMine
Whitelisted survival at the edge of AI and surreal design.
🌙 HorniMine — 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 — 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" — 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 — one that lingers in your mind long after you log off.
Server: horni.cc:25565 · Version: Paper 1.21.7 · Crossplay: Java + Bedrock
🌌 The Concept: Void Dreams
HorniMine exists at the intersection of cozy survival and surreal narrative. The world is vanilla at its core — you mine, you build, you survive — 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 ──────────────── INNER HUB ──────────────── MAIN SERVER
Surreal Dream Safe Haven Vanilla Survival
• Infinite void • Warmth and light • Islands of dreams
• Mesmerizing & unsettling • Genuine calm • Players build freely
• Strange nostalgia • Contrast with the Outer • The world may answer...
• The Architect's domain • Relief after the dream • Aftertaste of mystery
Outer Hub — 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 — After the disorientation, warmth. A cozy shelter that feels genuinely safe. The contrast is intentional — relief makes the calm feel earned.
Main Server — Vanilla survival with a twist. Build your home, raise your animals, explore the world. But scattered through the landscape are "Dream Islands" — 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 |
|---|---|
| 🛸 Alien Incursion | Your house may be lifted into the sky |
| 🌀 Reality Fracture | Part of the world becomes distorted |
| 🕳️ Void Consumes | Consequences ripple through player builds |
| 🌙 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.
🤖 The AI Ecosystem
HorniMine isn't just a Minecraft server — it's a laboratory for autonomous AI agents living alongside human players.
🌙 Oneiro — The Dreamer
Oneiro (from Greek ὄνειρο — "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:
🦴 SPINAL CORD (Reflexes) 🧠 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) — ~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 — Reflex fires <|SURV_FLEE_180|> immediately, before the strategy layer even knows about the threat.
| Intelligence Level | Model | Latency | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🦴 Reflexes | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (local GPU) | < 100ms | Combat, survival, movement |
| 🧠 Strategy | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (API) | 1-5s | Planning, chat, directives |
| 🔍 Analysis | Gemini 3.1 Pro (API) | 5-30s | Complex reasoning, plan correction |
| 🧊 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?" 🌀 |
| Asked to help build | Helps, but builds slightly wrong — 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." |
🖥️ Hornik — The Night Watchman
Hornik is an autonomous DevOps agent (Claude Opus 4.6) that monitors all three servers 24/7. While you sleep — 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 (22:00–08:00 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 — all in under 60 seconds.
🎨 Coder & Designer — The Autonomous Laboratory
Two AI agents that collaborate to expand the server's content:
- Designer (Gemini) — Studies the lore, invents new entities and narrative concepts. "A Void Wanderer that steals items if you stop looking at it."
- Coder (Claude) — 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.
🏗️ Infrastructure
HorniMine runs on a distributed, fault-tolerant architecture designed for performance and security.
Network Topology
Players ── horni.cc:25565 ──▶ Proxy (Frankfurt) ──▶ WireGuard VPN ──▶ 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 → 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 → Google Drive (AES-256, automated) |
| Map | BlueMap (live web map) |
Authentication: ElyMojang v3
Our custom authentication system supports three ways to join:
- ✅ Mojang/Microsoft — Premium Java accounts
- ✅ Ely.by — Alternative authentication for non-premium players
- ✅ Bedrock — Cross-play via GeyserMC
All three methods converge through a unified pipeline — no separate logins, no friction.
🎨 Design Philosophy: Anti-Trend
We don't follow design trends. We actively reject them.
Our design system is Dreamcore / Liminal Minimalism — the opposite of glossy, gradient-heavy, "Frutiger Aero" interfaces that dominate modern web design:
| Our Aesthetic ✅ | What We Reject ❌ |
|---|---|
| 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:
#f0ede6— Dirty white (hospital corridor)#121211— Not pure black, but "dim darkness"#b3cdd1— Faded blue sky#d9bfb8— Pale pink (childhood wallpaper)#e8dcb8— Yellow glow of an old lamp#a4b39b— Artificial grass
"Everything should look like it was filmed on an old camera. The user is watching the world through a scratched lens."
🎮 Custom Content
All custom content is server-side — 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 |
🗝️ 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.
📊 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 |
🔗 Links
- 🌐 Website: horni.cc
- 💬 Discord: Join our community
- 🗺️ Live Map: BlueMap
"The Void remembers everyone who has ever dreamed here."
