Show HN: MCServer – A FOSS Minecraft server in C++, with Lua plugins

by bearbin • 11 years ago

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techplex• 11 years ago

The link should be https://github.com/mc-server/MCServer

jamescun• 11 years ago

One thing that Minecraft has been missing, and that servers such as Bukkit tried to implement is an API for plugins. Looking through the docs, the LUA API[1] makes it seem as easily extendable as Garry's Mod.

[1] http://mc-server.xoft.cz/LuaAPI/

bearbin2• 11 years ago

Yes. The API is very good, and we already have some plugins that work quite well - for example a copy of the Bukkit WorldEdit mod: http://forum.mc-server.org/showthread.php?tid=870

Filligree• 11 years ago

Any plans to support Forge?

jasonjayr• 11 years ago

This is an interesting project. There DOES exist Minetest, which is c++ based, and uses lua entirely for running the worlds it serves. It's GPL for server + client.

See http://www.minetest.net/

adrusi• 11 years ago

Minetest isn't compatible with minecraft though. This project lets players connect using the Mojang proprietary client (and currently that's the only client).

seanhi2• 11 years ago

It's a nice project but the server doesn't work for Minecraft clients whereas MCServer does and Minecraft is more popular than minetest.

But it's nice for you to share this so we know there are similar options avaliable

slipstream-• 11 years ago

Nice. A bunch of friends of mine play Minecraft, but I never really got into it. So I decided to look into the protocol, and coded a chat-only minecraft server in dlang, which the Mojang client can connect to. (I never released it, even though I meant to as OSS)

poizan422• 11 years ago

Why yet another one? There is already https://github.com/fador/mineserver which could use more people working on it.

pekk2• 11 years ago

Is that one better? Why?

poizan422• 11 years ago

Dunno, but it has been under development for longer and seems to have the same goals so I was wondering why the creator made a new one or if he/she was unaware of the existence of mineserver. From the downvotes I've got I take it that such a discussion isn't welcome around here though.

logfromblammo• 11 years ago

I tried out MCServer for a while. I put it back on the shelf after discovering that the redstone simulator was not as functional as the official server, and there are subtle behavioral differences in the things that do work. Between the two, some complex device designs that work on the official server break on MCServer.

But with respect to system resources, it's very frugal.

charlesdm• 11 years ago

I'd imagine MCServer to be extremely valuable to server hosts, no? As far as I know, the official server uses a ton of resources

cengizIO• 11 years ago

They should pick a working donation medium though. Gratipay seems broken beyond recognition and I'm desperately throwing my cc to my monitor for the last twenty minutes.

Show HN: MCServer – A FOSS Minecraft server in C++, with Lua plugins

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