MC Horizon is an independent fan site about Horizon, the Minecraft: Java Edition client rewritten in Rust. We put Horizon’s mods, shaders, servers and releases in one place and explain, in English and Russian, how to get each of them running.
Who we are
A small editorial team of people who play Horizon themselves and have followed the project since its first releases. Articles are signed “MC Horizon editors”: we don’t invent authors with made-up bios or publish “expert reviews”. If an article gets a named author, their name and page will sit next to it.
We are not affiliated with the Horizon team, Mojang or Microsoft, and we don’t use the Horizon or Mojang logos.
Where the data comes from
| What | Source | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Mods, shaders, packs, licenses, downloads | the horizon-mods registry (index.json) |
every 30 minutes |
| Launcher, nightly and game releases | GitHub Releases of horizon-rust/horizon | every 30 minutes |
| Server player counts | our own Server List Ping | every 5 minutes |
| Facts in articles | playhorizon.dev docs and the Horizon repository | whenever an article is updated |
Numbers — downloads, players, FPS — always come with a source and a date. We don’t run or invent benchmarks: we quote the official ones along with their test conditions.
Files and licenses
When a mod’s license allows redistribution (MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL with source, and so on) we keep a copy and check its SHA-256 against the registry. When it doesn’t, or it’s unclear, we don’t store the file and the button honestly sends you to the official source. Every page names the author and the license.
Write-ups
We write mod descriptions ourselves from READMEs, source code and docs instead of copying the registry text. Until a page has our own write-up it shows a short card and stays out of search indexes.
Contact
Email: hello@horizonmc.info. Copyright holders: please use the form on the copyright page.