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@arskyandre arskyandre released this 14 Oct 22:14
v0.1.2
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Play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as Minecraft's Steve.

Breath of the Wild runs in Cemu; Minecraft: Java Edition runs beside it, hidden. You see BOTW's world and play it with Minecraft's player, blocks and items. This is the first release: an early version, played from start to end on the Great Plateau.

Download

BOTWCraft-0.1.2.zip below. Unzip it and open HOW TO INSTALL.txt: it walks you through everything, step by step.

What you need

  • Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a graphics card with Vulkan
  • Cemu 2.6 (the official Windows build), using Vulkan
  • Breath of the Wild for Wii U, US version, with update v208, dumped from your own console and working in Cemu
  • Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 with Fabric Loader 0.19.5 or newer and Fabric API for 26.3

No game files are included. You need your own copies of the games.

What works

  • First person in BOTW's world with Minecraft's movement, jumping, sneaking, swimming, sprinting (Link's dash) and climbing (Link's stamina)
  • BOTW's ground, walls and moving platforms are solid for Steve; Minecraft's blocks are drawn inside BOTW's own frame, lit and shadowed by the game
  • Blocks you place are ground and walls for BOTW's creatures and objects
  • BOTW's enemies hurt Steve and Steve hurts them; Steve's hearts are Link's, and BOTW's food heals him
  • The runes (Magnesis, Stasis, Cryonis, round and square bombs) as Minecraft items: hold one to use it
  • The paraglider as gliding, once the game gives it to you
  • Cutscenes play with BOTW's camera, with Steve in place of Link
  • What Steve carries is saved together with each BOTW save
  • Your saves are copied before every session, and Cemu's settings are put back afterwards

Known limits

  • Only the Great Plateau was played from start to end.
  • BOTW's weapons, bows, shields, clothes and cooking are still used through the game's own menu (F7). Bringing them into Minecraft's inventory is the next big step.
  • Minecraft's blocks are not saved with BOTW's saves yet.
  • Works only with Cemu 2.6 and the US version of the game with update v208.

Credits

  • The Minecraft side is based on SkyCraft by chasmlol (MIT).
  • Much of what is known about the game's code was learnt from BetterVR by Crementif (MIT), the Breath of the Wild decompilation project and WiiXLaunch-BotW.
  • vkroots (Apache-2.0 or MIT) for the Vulkan layer; the bundled Python runtime is under the PSF licence.

Not affiliated with Nintendo, Mojang or Microsoft. The Legend of Zelda and Minecraft are trademarks of their owners.

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