betamine

A Minecraft server written in Gleam

About

betamine is a Minecraft server written from the ground up in Gleam. It utilizes the glisten package as the basis for it's TCP connection. The protocol utilized by betamine is documented on the wiki.vg website, which is a great resource if you're interested in getting into the networking side of Minecraft development.

Warning

Heads up, betamine currently lacks the security features that should be employed by a typical Minecraft server. Please refrain from utilizing betamine as a typical Minecraft server, for now it's sole purpose is education and fun.

Getting Started

First things first you'll need to pull down the repository and get it running, you can do so with the following commands:

git clone git@github.com:zwubs/betamine.git
cd betamine
gleam run

Once running this will start up the server on localhost with the port 25565 (the default Minecraft server port), which you'll be able to connect to through your Minecraft client.

Caveats

• I've had some issues getting this to work on Windows, if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them!
• I need to improve the pinging logic for the server. If you're having trouble seeing the server on your list after you add it, hitting the "Refresh" button a few times seems to help...

Roadmap

This project is in an extremely alpha phase, so there's a lot that needs to be added to this project. Also, this project is mostly just for fun, so I have no dates planned for features. But, Here's a small breakdown of some of the things that are on my mind for the future:

• Chat Support
• More Player Action Support (i.e. crouching & punching)
• Compression
• Microsoft Authentication