Notes from actually running this stuff

Guides written from real migrations and real debugging sessions, wrong turns included -- not clean-room rewrites. This is the practical half of the site -- for the philosophy behind it, see Tiny Machines.

Palworld

• Hosting Palworld on a Native x86 Debian Box Migrating off Pi 5 + box64 emulation, a custom Pterodactyl egg, a from-scratch settings panel with real accounts, and a public Cloudflare Tunnel. Updating a Palworld Server Without Losing Anything The actual SteamCMD command, a flaky bug that ate three attempts, a depot-lag gotcha, and a rollback snapshot that costs almost nothing.
• Hosting Palworld on a Raspberry Pi 5 A complete, copy-paste walkthrough for running a real, console-joinable Palworld dedicated server on ARM hardware, including the undocumented IS_MULTIPLAY setting.

VMaNGOS · Warcraft

• Making a Solo VMaNGOS Server Feel Alive with Bots What's actually compiled into VMaNGOS's playerbot AI, the in-game commands to use it, and the companion-crew pattern that grew into a full LLM-driven cast (see below).
• Building an LLM Companion Crew Into VMaNGOS Real core patches, SOAP plumbing, a self-hosted LLM at zero ongoing API cost, and every real bug found running it live.
• VMaNGOS Companion Crew — Meet The Cast Four party companions and three standalone oracle NPCs, in their own words, plus the macro reference for using them.

KiRi

• Kiri Remembers You Why one companion is being built to persist across a game, a phone, and eventually other places entirely — plus what's actually real about it so far.