diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 2faf2be..a0b8258 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ maven.install(
         "com.velocitypowered:velocity-api:4.1.0-20260802.091736-8",
         "org.jdbi:jdbi3-core:3.53.0",
         "org.jdbi:jdbi3-postgres:3.53.0",
+        "org.postgresql:postgresql:42.7.12",
         "org.mongodb:bson:5.8.0",
         "io.nats:jnats:2.25.2",
         "de.kentoj.scrow:kencommandapi-core:0.36-SNAPSHOT",
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c729b98..ae64511 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,17 +1,29 @@
 # TODO
 
 ## BUILD
-- make sure it doesn't break when using postgres/nats (i only tested with dummies)
+- make sure it doesn't break when using nats
 - lwk make sure velocity plugin works at runtime
-- runServer target:
-  - start papermc server
-  - start PostgreSQL server
-  - maybe also have some map loaded
+- make dev-server use $DOCKER and fallback to docker if podman is not available.
 - refactor BUILD files: MODULES.bazel
-- debate use of third_party; deduplicate
 
 ## bukkit
+- MAKE A MINIGAME FIRST
 - notification: Friend is now offline/online
+- maybe lowk make kencommandapi's type's use Result instead of
+  exceptions so we can have cleaner error messages
+  - maybe `<msg> -- <raw input>`: `player not online -- kento2`,
+    `you can't add yourself as friend: kento2` -- this is weird again
+  - or similarly `illegal argument <raw input>: <msg>`: `illegal argument kento2:
+    you can't add yourself`. this is good lwk
+  - or just completely leave it up to the type: `<msg>` but then
+    we'd get inconsistencies or uninformative error messages.
+    maybe the error messages also just get simpler.
+    `you can't add yourself as friend`, `player not online` at /msg,
+    but with more arguments is super confusing.
+  - or `<arg-id>: <msg>`: `player: not online` could work. but then we'd get
+    `player: you can't add yourself as friend` which is kinda weird maybe.
+    also these IDs can be confusing.
+- make `/friend add` use argument requirement for self-check
 - /ignore command
 
 # Project
diff --git a/core-bukkit/BUILD b/core-bukkit/BUILD
index 30d2266..a06b311 100644
--- a/core-bukkit/BUILD
+++ b/core-bukkit/BUILD
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ java_library(
 )
 
 java_binary(
-    name = "plugin_bin",
+    name = "_plugin",
     srcs = glob(["plugin/main/**/*.java"]),
     create_executable = False,
     resources = glob(["plugin/main/resources/**"]),
@@ -30,12 +30,13 @@ java_binary(
         artifact("io.papermc.paper:paper-api"),
         artifact("io.nats:jnats"),
         artifact("net.kyori:adventure-key:5.2.0"),
+        artifact("org.postgresql:postgresql"),
     ],
 )
 
 genrule(
     name = "plugin",
-    srcs = [":plugin_bin_deploy.jar"],
+    srcs = [":_plugin_deploy.jar"],
     outs = ["plugin.jar"],
     cmd = "cp $< $@",
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
diff --git a/dev-server/minecraft.bzl b/dev-server/minecraft.bzl
index 7d949d4..6bc545e 100644
--- a/dev-server/minecraft.bzl
+++ b/dev-server/minecraft.bzl
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ def _dev_server_impl(ctx):
     script = ctx.actions.declare_file(ctx.label.name + "_runner")
     content = """
 #!/bin/sh
-set -eux
+set -eu
 
-echo hi\n
 cp -f '%s' server.jar
 printf eula=true > eula.txt
 mkdir -p plugins
@@ -13,7 +12,19 @@ for plugin in %s
 do
   cp -v \"$plugin\" plugins/
 done
-exec java -jar server.jar --nogui %s
+
+mkdir -p postgres-data
+podman run \
+    --rm \
+    --name scrow-postgres-dev \
+    -p 5432:5432 \
+    -v ./postgres-data/:/data \
+    -e POSTGRES_USER=postgres \
+    -e POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust \
+    -d \
+    docker.io/postgres:alpine || true
+echo "Starting paper server in $PWD"
+exec env HOST_POSTGRES='jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/postgres' java -jar server.jar --nogui %s
 """ % (
     ctx.file.server_jar.short_path,
     " ".join([p.short_path for p in ctx.files.plugins]),