Another post? Ikr. Here's my Trello board & an update on what I've learned about Minecraft: RENDERING I believe the stars are rendered client-side, not server-side (I did a test with my render distance and they turned off when my render distance was below 4 chunks). This leads me to believe I'll have to make a client-side mod which I'd rather not do, because I myself am bad at installing mods, and since it's just one single thing I wanna change (add constellations), I'm not sure it's worth it for a client-side mod. And if the mod is client-side, how will I share the constellation information with the other people on the server? I've also found out that the mod Opitfine appears to allow major sky customizations, but it's currently unclear of I'll be able to alter the stars the way I want to with Optifine. STARS I made a p5.js sketch to start figuring out how making a constellation will go. Current work in progress, to be honest it's a real mess right now. JARGON Blahblah#meh - Class "Blahblah", which contains he method "meh". skybox - the box around a Minecraft world that displays the sky texture (might also control the stars, but currently unclear??) custom dimension - a common plugin for Spigot and other servers, a custom dimension is basically a custom world a player can use as their "home base" and build up however they want. Common to request a custom sky in your custom dimension, but these are normally limited to like 6 options that are found in Minecraft already, not a custom color / texture. world generation - Normally refers to how the Minecraft world is generated, referring to literally how each chunk is determined to look like. NOT referring to sky rendering. JOINING THE COMMUNITY I've made an account on the Spigot forums to contact a user who made a Celeste mod that adds shooting stars (but they're actual objects in Minecraft, not rendered with the sky). Got a pleasant response: "I, unfortunately, do not know specifically how the stars in Minecraft work, though I would imagine they are directly part of the skybox which can be changed via a resource pack. Good luck on your plugin mate!" I also joined 3 Discord servers dedicated to either modding or specific mods that appear relevant. I've asked about modding the sun / moon / stars in one of them and no one had an answer for 1.16 (the newest version of Minecraft). SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ME Overall, it seems like I'm on the right track to learning what I need to know, but I'll definitely need a lot more experience in the field to get something up and running by April. I think I'll also have to change course from a server-side mod to a client mod, however much I don't want to do that :( But we improvise, adapt, overcome. TL;DR I'm starting to learn why no one's done this before.((spoilers: it seems pretty difficult.))