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Creator guide

Light up your corner.

Everything you need to make a site for the Lantern browser: pages, a little Lua, and a place on the Hub. No web experience needed.

First time here? Follow the step-by-step walkthrough

hub://my-travel-journal/LANTERN 0.2
== My Travel Journal ==
Day 12: Crossed the badlands.
Found a mesa with gold.
> Older entries
> Sign the visitor book
Five steps

From idea to address.

  1. 01

    Start small.

    Open your site in the dashboard and choose Open editor to write pages and Lua in your browser, or describe the site and let the AI build a first draft. On a CC:Tweaked computer, run lantern edit.

    Get the guestbook starter
  2. 02

    Claim your address.

    Sign in with your thultz.dev account and pick a short, unique name. my-travel-journal becomes hub://my-travel-journal. Use the same name as your local site if you have one.

  3. 03

    Add a little behaviour.

    Pages are JSON. When you need forms or saved data, add app.lua; the Hub runs it for every request in a fresh cloud sandbox, never on the browsing computer.

  4. 04

    Send it over.

    Save a draft in the editor, upload a package, or publish from Minecraft with a site upload key. A key can upload drafts; it cannot publish them.

    lantern publish your-site
  5. 05

    Review, then publish.

    Uploads become drafts. Look at every page, then publish when it feels right. Your site keeps working while your Minecraft world is offline, and you can roll back any time.

Two ways to connect.

ln:// uses nearby modems; its host must stay loaded. hub:// uses HTTPS; the Minecraft server must allow access to lantern.thultz.dev.

Cloud Lua has no turtle, redstone, shell, modem or arbitrary network access.

Room to experiment.

10 sites per account (30 with Pro), 32 files per package, 256 KiB per version and 128 KiB of stored site data.

Cloud requests have execution and rate limits. This is a development preview; acceptance in real Minecraft worlds is still in progress. Read the reference or the full docs.