How Haxball rooms actually work
Practical guides to running a Haxball room: the headless host, tokens, public vs private rooms, cutting ping, and room scripts. Written by the people who host them.
How to host a Haxball room
The full picture — what a host does, the three ways to run one, tokens, room slots, and the checklist before you go live.
Read the guide →The Haxball headless host
HBInit, the room object, events, tokens — and the honest truth about the country flag next to rooms in the list.
Read the guide →Why Haxball lags
One tick is 17 ms. Here is what your ping costs you in ticks, what jitter does that ping does not, and which half of the problem you can actually fix.
Read the guide →Public vs private Haxball rooms
Discovery versus control — the room-list slot cap, the moderation load that comes free with strangers, and which your community actually needs.
Read the guide →Haxball room scripts and bots
What bots are made of, the tick budget you must not blow, and why your bans vanish every time the room restarts.
Read the guide →Skip the setup
Everything in these guides, done for you — your room live in about a minute, on the server closest to your players.
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