# Silica FAQ ## What is Silica? Silica is a ground-up rewrite of Minecraft's server and client, written in Kotlin using the Sandbox API. ## Why are you rewriting Minecraft? Minecraft as it currently exists was not designed for where the modded ecosystem has pushed it, our goal is to create a more optimised and well suited home for modded content to be more performant. ## What makes Silica better? Silica uses modern techniques such as threads and coroutines to allow it to make use of all of more CPU cores and get more out of the hardware its on. It's also open source and welcome contributions to improve it --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.sandboxpowered.org/silica/silica-faq.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.