book/03-sidecar.md

@@ -151,13 +151,22 @@ shape. That is what thin means: less code, the same architecture.
 
 **Rust is the worked example, and it is not that case.** The dry run in
 [`rust-dryrun.md`][dryrun] designs a module for it precisely because it shares so
-little with Ultima Online — and its answer is a **mod**: a plugin loaded by the
-server's own mod framework, hooking the game's events and dialling out to a
-sidecar, exactly as the ServUO overlay does. The Rust server is a *binary*, where
-ServUO is source a shard owner compiles, so the way in is a published hook API
-rather than a file you edit. **The three-part shape survives that unchanged**,
-which is the more useful finding: the plugin-dials-out arrangement is not a
-property of having source access.
+little with Ultima Online — and its answer is an **Oxide plugin**: C# loaded by
+the mod framework a modded Rust server already runs, hooking the game's events and
+dialling out to a sidecar, exactly as the ServUO overlay does. The Rust server is a
+*binary*, where ServUO is source a shard owner compiles, so the way in is a
+published hook API rather than a file you edit. **The three-part shape survives
+that unchanged**, which is the more useful finding: the plugin-dials-out
+arrangement is not a property of having source access.
+
+It also pairs **one sidecar to one game server**, on that server's own host,
+rather than one sidecar fronting a community's several — because those servers sit
+on separate machines, and a shared sidecar would be reached across a network by
+plugins that are supposed to talk to it over loopback. Worth knowing before you
+design yours: if your game runs as a fleet, the question "how many sidecars" is
+answered by where the loopback boundary is, not by how many processes you would
+rather run. Your module holding several clients is the cheaper end of that trade,
+and core never learns there is more than one.
 
 That document reached the game over RCON until 2026-08-19, and before that
 concluded there should be **no sidecar at all**. It carries both corrections,

book/04-game-plugin.md

@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ rules below are what keep that something from being the reason the server froze.
 
 **That something does not have to be source you compile.** The worked example
 below is an overlay built into a server whose code you have; the dry run for Rust
-is a **mod** loaded by a closed server's own framework, hooking published events.
-Every rule in this chapter applies identically to both — they are properties of
-being inside a game loop, not of how you got there.
+is an **Oxide plugin**, C# loaded by a closed server's own mod framework and
+hooking published events. Every rule in this chapter applies identically to both —
+they are properties of being inside a game loop, not of how you got there.
 
 The worked example is `servuo-plugins`, the Ultima Online shard plugin, whose link
 layer is one file: `overlay/Scripts/Custom/Bridge/BridgeLink.cs`. It is C# against