by Fador & Nredor and others

You can find the core team from #mineserver @ irc.esper.net
Also mail to [email protected] will reach us.

Copyright (c) 2010, The Mineserver Project

Custom Minecraft Alpha server software written in C++.

Currently in (early) development. (Alpha stage)
Server still lacks some critical features and should be only used for testing.

Tested to build on

• Windows (VS2010 and VS2008 projects included)
• Linux (Makefile included)
• Mac OS X
• FreeBSD / PCBSD

We are trying to minimize memory and cpu usage compared to original Java server.

• Various chat commands, more to come..
• NBT parsing/saving
• Lightmap generation
• Config file
• Normal mining/item spawning/item pickups
• Basic physics for gravel and sand
• Experimental physics for water and lava
• Flatland map generation
• Working chests
• Terrain generation

• Getting furnaces and signs to work (In progress)
• Plugin support (and Lua plugin for scripting)
• Multithreading
• Growing trees and cactuses
• and more

For all players

• /players : Lists online players
• /about : Server name & version
• /rules : Shows server rules
• /home : Teleports user to map spawn location
• /kit (name) : Gives kit. Items for kit defined in config.cfg with kit_(name) using itemId's

Admin only

• %text : Servermessage
• &text : Admin-only message
• /kick nick (kickmsg) : Kicks user with optional kick message
• /save : Manually save map to disc
• /ctp x y z : Teleport to coordinates (eg. /ctp 100 100 100)
• /tp nick : Teleport yourself to nick's position
• /tp nick1 nick2 : Teleport nick1 to nick2
• /reload : Reload admins and configuration
• /give nick id/alias (count) : Gives nick count pieces of id/alias. count = 1 is used if it is not provided. Support for over 64 items. Aliases configurable with item_alias.cfg
• /rules nick : Shows server rules (from rules.txt) to nick
• /gps (nick) : Without nick shows own coordinates. With nick shows nick's coordinates

Depends on (and tested with):

zlib 1.2.5
libevent 1.4.14b libnoise 1.0

• Installing on Debian and Ubuntu:

  sudo apt-get install libevent1 libevent-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libnoise-dev

• Installing on CentOS and RHEL

  # Install EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)
sudo su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm'
sudo yum install git libevent libevent-devel zlib zlib-devel libnoise-dev

• Installing on FreeBSD / PCBSD

  sudo pkg_add -r libevent

Compiling using linux (make & gcc):

• Download and extract source or use git clone git://github.com/fador/mineserver.git
• Go to mineserver/src/ directory
• Run make
• Run server with ./mineserver

Compiling using FreeBSD / PCBSD (gmake & g++):

• Download and extract source or use git clone git://github.com/fador/mineserver.git
• Go to mineserver/src/ directory
• Run gmake
• Run server with ./mineserver

Compiling using windows (VS2010/VS2008):

• Download and compile zlib or use pre-built binaries
• Add zlib libraries to project (zlibstat.lib or zlibwapi.lib which requires also zlibwapi.dll in the same dir with the executable)
• Download and compile libevent
• Download libnoise 1.0 and add header/library files to project
• Add libevent library to project (libevent.lib)
• Build
• Run mineserver.exe

An example using commandline compiler available at http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/ Please change the ZLIB_INC_DIR, LIBEVENT_INC_DIR, ZLIB_LIB_DIR and LIBEVENT_LIB_DIR to those you keep the includes/libs.

call "%VS100COMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat"
cl /I"ZLIB_INC_DIR;LIBEVENT_INC_DIR" /W3 /WX- /O2 /D ZLIB_WINAPI /D WIN32 /D NDEBUG /D _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS /EHsc *.cpp zlibwapi.lib libevent.lib Ws2_32.lib /link /OUT:mineserver.exe /LIBPATH:"ZLIB_LIB_DIR;LIBEVENT_LIB_DIR"