Many online video games work by using a program loop. It is a kind of function that controls how often the event triggers get updated and activated. For liquid blocks, the tick defines how quickly or ...

A chunk is a block in Minecraft that is used for measuring the render distance. Render distance is used in setting how far the world can spawn from a player. Seeing Chunks affects Render Distance. So, ...

A previously undocumented malware botnet named AryStinger has compromised more than 4,000 outdated routers to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. Researchers at Qianxin's XLab threat ...

Minecraft Java Edition 26.2 — officially named Chaos Cubed — is scheduled to launch on June 16, 2026, bringing with it a new underground biome, a mob with a physics-simulation twist, an experimental ...

With the release of Minecraft 2.6.2-Snapshot 5, sulfur has found new life as a building block for the recently added geysers and as an explosive archetype (like TNT). Players who like experimenting ...

Last week, a post about my open-source project CocoIndex Code hit 54K+ views on X after @RoundtableSpace shared it. The tweet was simple: "CocoIndex Code gives your coding agent a brain." That one ...

Passionate and pragmatic Software Engineer at the intersection of backend, data engineering, and developer tooling. I’ve started my programming journey more than 8 years ago with a book on learning ...

We’re about to show you exactly how to reload chunks in Minecraft because textures and assets can sometimes get buggy in a sandbox game such as this one. After all, it’s a procedurally generated game ...

What are the best Minecraft commands? There are many ways to play Minecraft, from the pure survival aspect of reaching the end to building mind-blowing projects in creative mode. Using console ...

Want to enhance your Minecraft world with new items, mobs, or gameplay features? Installing mods is the best way to do it. This guide shows you how to install Minecraft mods safely and quickly. Before ...

Tyler Shipley is an editor for GameRant who has been writing for the team since 2021. Tyler has a degree in English from the University of Toledo. Some of his favorite games are platformers, but he ...