Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft

by sphinxc0re • 9 years ago

134 25 9 years ago

loa_in_• 9 years ago

What makes this a goos alternative? How does it handle ghost blocks for example?

NiLSPACE4• 9 years ago

Currently the server doesn't do collision checks with Players, so you wouldn't notice ghost blocks. It does make it allot easier for hackers though.

What makes it a good alternative is that it's reasonably lightweight. We currently have a server running on a RasPi 1 B where people can build structures for the world generator: https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-1372.html

seabird3• 9 years ago

The performance of the official server implementation is pretty awful. Notch was never a good programmer by any stretch of the imagination (go check out old tree decay code) so you have pretty much nowhere to go but up, especially when you're rewriting the server in a language that allows you to more manage memory more precisely.

xyzzy_plugh• 9 years ago

You know I see this a lot, and I respectfully disagree. He was clever. And he engineered himself out of many, many corners. He may not be a computer scientist, or a software engineer, but the man can make a game.

The fact that Minecraft ran so well on so many machines enabled it's huge success. I don't think most programmers are capable of that feat.

ungzd2• 9 years ago

Extensibility. Official server still doesn't have plugin API and it is closed-source so it can't be modified. Almost everyone uses spigot/bukkit/sponge because vanilla server lacks many features, but these are dirty hacks based on disassembly.

Angostura2• 9 years ago

Does your new server have the ability to support these old plugins at all? Doesn't look like it does.

Angostura2• 9 years ago

The multiworlds support looks very interesting. Currently I host about 4 worlds on my Mac for my kids and their school friends. I have 4 instances of the server running on my Mac, each running over different ports, with port-forwarding configured on the home router. This looks rather less cumbersome. Cheers!

ungzd2• 9 years ago

Can't find information how much feature-complete it is.

NiLSPACE4• 9 years ago

There is a forum post which has a rough list of what is supported and what not: https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-499.html

AlphaWeaver• 9 years ago

I'm impressed this is a Minecraft Server I can run from my Android, and it seems reasonably polished!

timow1337• 9 years ago

Does anyone know a similar project but for the client side? I've always thought using c++ instead of java would improve performance a lot.

Yuioup• 9 years ago

Minetest ?

NiLSPACE4• 9 years ago

There is a list of clients here: http://wiki.vg/Client_List

ihuman• 9 years ago

The Windows 10 version of Minecraft uses C++

curioussavage• 9 years ago

Cuberite is awesome! I used it as an excuse to write something in lua. I totally overhauled the portals plugin.

It's nice if you want to run a server on a pi

Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft

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