The production panel lists every fireplace, smelter and kiln within 32 m of you (PanelRadius, capped by the server): its name, how far away it is, whether the server is feeding it and what it last did (fed 4 s ago, no ore in reach…), and a switch for the whole station and for each half it has. All off, All on, Kilns off and Kilns on work on the whole list. It is the same switching the hover keys do, laid out where you can see everything at once. A station farther than the server lets you reach is shown, but not switchable until you walk closer. The panel refreshes by itself, works like the inventory while it is open (your cursor is free and the game does not read the mouse or keyboard), and closes with the same key, with Esc, or when you leave the server. PanelScale sizes it.

A kiln takes only wood, and a fire only fuel, so each shows, and answers to, only the half it has (a kiln's wood switch is Ctrl+H).

A key press means "make it the opposite of what I am looking at", sent as a setting rather than a flip. Two players pressing together, or a slightly stale hover, still end where they meant. Switching a station back on keeps your fuel and ore choices.

Nothing is ever added to your inventory. The server holds the missing materials for you, and when the game takes its materials Alice takes only your inventory's share and lets the server use the rest. A craft or placement only goes ahead if your inventory plus what the server is holding really covers the cost. Alice never destroys an item.

Building waits until a piece has stayed selected for half a second, so scrolling through the hammer menu costs nothing.

How long the server holds a craft's materials is the server's setting. A craft that would take longer than that (a high-quality upgrade, say) is declined up front, with the numbers, instead of running out at the end; ask the server owner to raise AliceLinkEscrowSeconds. A reply that arrives after Alice stopped waiting is handed straight back.

Why it saves your character. The chests change the moment you craft, but your character is only written to disk at the game's 30-minute autosave, so a game crash in between would leave the chests short while your character forgets the craft (the same thing happens if you carry items out of a chest by hand and the game crashes). Alice asks the game to save a few seconds after such a craft, never more than once every 20 seconds, and skips it when the game's own free-disk-space check says there is not enough room, exactly as the autosave does. Turn it off with SaveAfterChestCraft.

If a game update ever changes how the game takes materials, Alice notices that what was taken is not exactly the cost, switches crafting and building from chests off for that session, says so in the BepInEx log, and hands everything back.

Why the hand-over helps. Without Alice the server has to take ownership of a stack you are standing next to and hold it for a second before it dares move it, because your game could pick it up in that moment. With Alice the server asks, your game says yes (or "that one is mine"), and the stack goes straight into the chest. Alice agrees unless your own pickup is about to take the stack: anything within about 3 metres that your auto-pickup would claim stays yours.

Alice never moves, edits or destroys an item. The only thing it does is hand the server ownership of the stack, and the server moves it only once it can see for itself that it now owns it. If anything is unclear, the stack simply stays where it is and the server's usual way applies.

The nudge is a hint, at most once a quarter second; VacuumNudge turns it off. VacuumToasts turns the messages off.

Chest settings (Ctrl+K while looking at a chest, or with its window open):

• Collect items from the ground, on or off.
• What it collects: only what it already holds (today's behaviour); a list of chosen item types (it keeps collecting them after it runs empty, and Learn from contents fills the list from what is inside); or everything nobody else wants (a sink chest, always ranked below any chest that matches).
• The chest's own reach.

The settings are stored by the server, not in the chest, so nothing about the chest or its contents changes. Only players who may open the chest can change them, and players without Alice see only the effect.

Some Wonderland servers show members things like who crafts the most or what is Cara's best skill through a Discord bot. Wonderland measures most of that itself, for everyone. A few numbers only your game knows: kills are on the list because only your own game counts all of them, and a server cannot.

What is sent is only how those counters rose since a baseline taken when the link came up, and only when something changed. A report the server acknowledges moves the baseline by exactly what it carried; a game crash loses at most one interval. Alice only reads; it changes nothing in your game.

The 7 - Sharing section of the config shows your answer per server (address=yes / address=no, editable). ShareStats = Never shares with nobody; Always shares with every server that offers it, except the ones you said no to.

The BepInEx log says Linked to Wonderland ... when the server has accepted Alice. If it never does, the server is not running Wonderland 1.12.0 or newer with AliceLinkEnabled on, and Alice is staying out of the way. VerboseLogging logs every link message and decision, for bug reports.

In Wonderland's config, section 20 - Alice Link, set AliceLinkEnabled = true (off by default). Players without Alice are untouched. AliceLinkEscrowSeconds is how long a crafting reservation is held.

Alice talks to Wonderland through two messages the server itself registers, and only after the server has spoken first: the server advertises, Alice answers, the server switches the features on. Only the server is believed (a message from anyone else is dropped), and every message is read defensively.

Alice uses no ServerSync and no Jotunn, on purpose: a Wonderland server that enforces vanilla clients kicks a client that answers those frameworks' probes, and Alice never does.

Gameplay settings (ranges, which features are on) belong to the server and reach Alice when it connects; the radii Alice offers are capped by the server.