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SNAPSHOT Draw terrain GPU-driven from packed per-section buffers with GPU occlusion culling, add a render distance slider (2-128) with a quad/disk shape, cut chunk bookkeeping at high render distances, and fix a light underflow at y=0
Draw terrain GPU-driven from packed per-section buffers with GPU occlusion culling, add a render distance slider (2-128) with a quad/disk shape, cut chunk bookkeeping at high render distances, and fix a light underflow at y=0 HEAD Author alex Uploader alex 01a11aa0-3896-7e51-a048-79aa16c5e1ff 2 weeks ago Add present mode selection (Immediate/Mailbox/FIFO/FIFO Relaxed/FIFO Latest Ready), VK_EXT_present_timing frame pacing, and a Max FPS slider; settle falling blocks instantly during population Author alex Uploader alex 01a1184c-4ef1-7ab1-be68-f22a50658d05 2 weeks ago Support Vulkan 1.3 devices without descriptor heaps (descriptor-set fallback, Video Settings toggle), pick the swapchain format from the surface, and share pipelines across depth passes Author alex Uploader alex 01a117e2-f0e6-71e0-b9e5-2f615201408a 2 weeks ago Add opt-in Vulkan validation (VULKAN_VALIDATION), move logging to tracing, warp the pointer on Wayland, and fix a segfault on close Author alex Uploader alex 01a117a5-0596-79c1-8f7c-e4a03d181f38 2 weeks ago Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 Rust rewrite, ready for publish: fmt/clippy clean, tests and release build pass Author alex Uploader alex 01a1173f-1031-7882-8c42-54092de8d0b2 2 weeks ago Genesis snapshot Author System-created Uploader Not uploaded 01a11740-9163-7bfb-b041-e03dbd1a0f89 2 weeks ago
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beta-minecraft-rust

Minecraft Beta 1.7.3, rewritten in Rust.

This rewrite is not 100% faithful to the original. It fixes some bugs and diverges in some places (although most decisions are purely of technical nature).

This repo has no Minecraft files. A script downloads them for you (step 2).

1. Install

You need Linux and:

  • Rust
  • slangc (Arch: pacman -S shader-slang)
  • A recent Vulkan GPU driver
  • curl and unzip

2. Get the game files

./download-assets.sh

This downloads the original files from Mojang's servers, plus three original sounds from Betacraft.

3. Play

cargo run --release --bin minecraft

Worlds are saved in ~/.minecraft, the same folder the original game uses.

Run a server instead:

cargo run --release --bin minecraft-server

Debug Vulkan with the Khronos validation layer (vulkan-validation-layers package):

VULKAN_VALIDATION=warn cargo run --release --bin minecraft

Levels: none (default), error, fatal (abort on the first error), warn, best_practice. Append ,sync, ,gpu or ,printf for synchronization validation, GPU-assisted validation or shader printf. Log filtering uses RUST_LOG.

License

MIT or Apache-2.0, your choice. crates/volcanic and crates/volcanic-mem are MIT only.

Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang. This project is not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.