Releases: Yaekai/OWCraft
Release list
OWCraft 0.1.1
OWCraft 0.1.1: smoother flight, third person, and Giant's Deep's islands.
Experimental: tested on one Windows PC so far. Please report problems in Issues, and attach your OWML log and Minecraft's logs/latest.log.
What's new
F5 third person: Minecraft's own player body is drawn on the planet, and the Outer Wilds body is hidden while you're in Minecraft mode.
Smoother elytra: far fewer jumps between planet tiles while flying, so less lag and rubber-banding. The freezes in mid-air every few seconds are fixed.
Giant's Deep's islands: you can build on them. Fly off one and you carry on over Giant's Deep.
Creative and Spectator: your Outer Wilds body no longer suffocates or takes damage.
No footstep sounds while flying or falling.
Arrows, tridents and dropped items are drawn.
Mobs walk over the planet's surface, and wait instead of falling into the void where the ground hasn't loaded yet.
Fewer collision hitches, and tools/check-logs.py to check both games' logs after playing.
Install
Outer Wilds: install the Outer Wilds Mod Manager.
Unzip Yaekai.OWCraft-0.1.1.zip into %AppData%\OuterWildsModManager\OWML\Mods\ (replace the old Yaekai.OWCraft folder).
Minecraft: install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.3. Put skycraft-0.1.2+owcraft.5.jar and Fabric API (for 26.3) in .minecraft\mods. Remove the older skycraft-...+owcraft.1.jar.
Start Minecraft (Fabric profile), then Outer Wilds. Land on a planet and press F6.
Controls in Minecraft mode:
O opens Minecraft's menu.
F5 switches to third person.
Esc pauses, or closes a Minecraft screen.
F6 goes back to Outer Wilds.
Known limitations
While flying over Giant's Deep after leaving an island, the islands aren't solid for Minecraft. Land on one and press F6 again to build there.
Translucent blocks (glass, water, ice) are drawn opaque.
The Minecraft world doesn't follow Outer Wilds' day/night.
What's in it
The skycraft jar is chasmlol's SkyCraft (MIT), with the OWCraft patch (guest/skycraft-owcraft.patch).
Written by an AI (Claude, by Anthropic), directed and play-tested by Yaekai.
No game files or Minecraft assets are included.
OWCraft 0.1.0
Play real Minecraft on Outer Wilds planets. Land, press F6, and build.
Experimental: tested on one Windows PC so far. Please report problems in Issues, and attach your OWML log and Minecraft's logs/latest.log.
Install
Outer Wilds: install the Outer Wilds Mod Manager.
Unzip Yaekai.OWCraft-0.1.0.zip into %AppData%\OuterWildsModManager\OWML\Mods.
Minecraft: install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.3. Put skycraft-0.1.2+owcraft.1.jar and Fabric API (for 26.3) in .minecraft\mods.
Start Minecraft (Fabric profile), then Outer Wilds. Land on a planet and press F6.
Controls in Minecraft mode:
O opens Minecraft's menu.
Esc pauses, or closes a Minecraft screen.
F6 goes back to Outer Wilds.
What's in it
The skycraft jar is chasmlol's SkyCraft (MIT), with a small OWCraft patch (guest/skycraft-owcraft.patch).
Written by an AI (Claude, by Anthropic), directed and play-tested by Yaekai.
No game files or Minecraft assets are included.