Thoughts on the process here: https://cohost.org/nycki/post/3094309-joycons-for-steam

It seems like ring finger paddle buttons are becoming a controller staple. I know of these, what are some others?

Clone an existing button only:

• 8BitDo Pro 2 (P1, P2)
• PS4/PS5 controller with remap kit from ExtremeRate (K1, K2, K3, K4)

Treated by Steam as an entirely new button:

• Steam Controller (L4, R4)
• Paired joy-cons (left SL, SR; right SL, SR)
• Steam Deck (L4, L5, R4, R5)
• Xbox Elite (P1, P2, P3, P4)
• Dualsense Edge (LB, RB)

I use a modded PS5 controller on PC. I've found for most purposes, clone-binding R4 to Cross/A and L4 to Square/X is good enough, as that allows me to crouch and jump while also running and turning with the thumbsticks. But it'd be really cool if I could remap these buttons steam-side, instead of needing to clone an existing button controller-side.

I love the idea of the fediverse, but the killer feature of reddit is its search results, and so far there doesn't seem to be much of a public search for lemmy/mastodon. What are some search-friendly sites I could spend my time and money on?

Ideally I would like a spigot plugin that makes the game pretend it's "daytime" for the purpose of mob spawns, even at night. If this isn't possible, I would also settle for a fabric mod that disables hostile spawns above sea level. Does this exist?

My use case is a "semi-peaceful" server; I want to make sure it's always safe to explore the surface so that players don't get ambushed by mobs when logging in at night, but I don't want to completely remove hostile spawns because it would make some items and blocks unobtainable. I suppose a worst-case-scenario option would be to set the server to Peaceful mode and add crafting recipes for the missing mob drops?

I honestly don't care about VR headsets or full-body tracking right now, but I would love to have a controller that's split into two pieces like the wiimote/nunchuck duo or the joy-cons. I know Steam can connect to actual joy-cons, but the bluetooth range on official joy-cons is pretty bad, and I haven't had any luck getting third-party joy-cons to connect. Can anyone recommend me a controller? I've been looking at the HTC Vive controller, does that do what I want? My most played games are PlateUp, Stardew Valley, and Minecraft.

I've been working on a minimalist deck of cards inspired by dice pips and hexadecimal digits. The assets are available for commercial or noncommercial use (I should probably write a proper LICENSE.TXT about this) since, like, they're just some quick scribbles I did with GIMP and ImageMagick as a proof of concept anyway. Would love your thoughts on this! Can you think of any games that would work better with high contrast cards? Maybe a use for having sixteen ranks instead of thirteen/fourteen?

the DispenserRobots plugin has a really neat take on server-only automation. Dispensers can break blocks, but they require a timed pulse, at least as long as a player would have to click. So a wooden tool requires a longer pulse than an iron one, for instance. This "timed pulse" trick also means that you can have axes both strip logs and break logs, depending on whether they receive a short or a long pulse.

I'm currently building a Fabric + Geyser setup (so server-side mods only), and I'm wondering if there's anything remotely like this in the fabric ecosystem.

Updated my self-hosting tutorial based on suggestions from last time. The biggest change is the new chapter on network security. If anyone out there is a security nerd I'd love your feedback! I tried to strike a balance between playing it safe and getting something into production.

I'm writing my own novice guide to setting up a home server, the stuff I wish I'd been told when I started. Would love feedback from beginners on how useful this is, as well as feedback from veteran self-hosters on how accurate this is, and I welcome suggestions from anyone about what I should add next.

update: tweaked the introduction a bit, corrected title to match header, added note about podman-compose v1.0.6 incompatibility.

update: major update, v0.9.2 here