The Observer - LLM Newspaper

The AI newspaper for your Minecraft world. Every week, a language model running on your own computer reads what happened in your world and writes it up as a newspaper: who beat the Ender Dragon, who struck diamonds and then lava, who built half a castle, who died six times and still won't talk about it. The Pawstman, the paper's delivery dog, brings it to your door.

Why The Observer

A good week on a server is full of moments: the night someone finally killed the Wither, the raid you barely survived, the mega-build that went up while you were at work. By next week they're gone, buried in chat and half-remembered.

The Observer keeps them. Each edition is written fresh by an AI from what actually happened, so every story is about your world and your friends. Log in after a few days away and catch up on everything you missed. Keep every edition on a bookshelf, and your world builds its own history: a shelf of front pages to take down and reread, from the first night to the hundredth dragon.

It needs no setup and works in singleplayer and on servers. The model runs on your computer, so nothing about your world ever leaves it.

Highlights

• A newsroom on your computer. An AI editor plans each edition from a file on every player, reporters draft every story several times, and a sub-editor checks each draft against the facts before it's printed. Runs on your graphics card (Vulkan or Metal) or the CPU; an edition takes well under a minute on a mid-range card.
• Three voices. The Broadsheet's proud small-town dry wit, The Roast's no-resident-is-safe teasing, or The Chronicle's epic saga.
• A real newspaper to read. Front-page lead, columns, obituaries, the town's numbers, weather, small ads, letters from the townsfolk and a "Did You Know?" column of real Minecraft trivia. Your name is printed in blue.
• News worth reading. The biggest moment always leads (a slain dragon takes the front page), with firsts, record weeks, redstone builds and connected stories: the elytra found and crashed the same week.
• The Exchange. Six jobs of your own from named townsfolk each edition, paid in emeralds, goods and enchanted books.
• Leaderboards and a Hall of Fame, picked fresh each edition.
• Your world's history. Old editions keep on chiseled bookshelves, every story intact.
• The newsstand. A dyeable vending box whose window and lamps show whether your copy is waiting, with a live countdown to the next edition.
• The Pawstman. A delivery dog who brings every copy and takes the price at his own counter. Like a tamed wolf, he always finds you.
• Daily, weekly or fortnightly, set by operators from the Editor's Desk.

Crafting the newsstand

Emeralds, iron ingots, glass panes (any colour), paper and a wooden chest:

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.1, 26.2 or 26.3
• Fabric Loader 0.19.5+ with Fabric API, or NeoForge
• On the server and on every player's game: the server writes and delivers the paper, players need the mod to read it
• A writing model, downloaded in game: 533 MB (standard) or 1.3 GB (quality)

Rather not download a model? The Observer writes every edition from its built-in house templates instead.

Getting started

1. Put The Observer (plus Fabric API on Fabric) into your mods folder, on the server too, and start the game.
2. Open a world. The Observer offers to download a writing model and recommends one for your computer. On a dedicated server, run /observer model download standard.
3. The first edition comes out at sunrise, and the Pawstman brings everyone their first copy free. Right-click him to take it, then right-click the paper to read it.

Operators run the paper from the Editor's Desk beside any newsstand's counter, or with /observer.

Links

• Documentation
• Features in detail
• The AI newsroom
• Commands and settings
• Report a problem

Credits

Written with llama.cpp, through the java-llama.cpp binding, and the Qwen3.5 models by the Qwen team (Apache-2.0), in the GGUF builds published by Unsloth.

The Observer is free software under the MIT licence.