Hosting

Choose a hosting strategy for Genius

Choosing a Hosting Strategy

Genius uses the Ollama chat API, giving you two hosting options:

• Cloud hosting on ollama.com (recommended) - Free with generous usage limits, no server performance impact
• Self-hosting - Requires dedicated infrastructure; running Ollama on your Minecraft server can have significant performance impacts

Recommendation: Use cloud hosting unless you have dedicated infrastructure for self-hosting.

Setup Instructions

Cloud Hosting (ollama.com)

1. Get your API key:

   • Go to ollama.com and sign in or create an account
   • Navigate to Profile > Settings > Keys
   • Click "Add API Key", enter a name, and copy the generated key

2. Configure the plugin:

   • Open plugins/Genius/config.yml on your server
   • Set ollama.baseUrl to https://ollama.com/
   • Set ollama.apiKey to your API key from step 1
   • (Optional) Change ollama.model to a different cloud model (default is deepseek-v3.1:671b)

3. Restart your server to apply the changes

Self-Hosting

1. Install Ollama:

   • Follow the official quickstart guide to install Ollama on your machine
   • Pull the model you want to use (Genius does not pull models automatically)

2. Configure the plugin:

   • Open plugins/Genius/config.yml on your server
   • Verify ollama.baseUrl matches your Ollama instance URL
   • Set ollama.model to the model you pulled

3. Restart your server to apply the changes