AltCraft

AltCraft is implementation of Minecraft: Java Edition client in C++. This is aimed at being fast, free, portable and easy expandable. Current protocol version: 340 (Minecraft 1.12.2)

Features

Protocol

• Compression
• Encryption
• Inventory
• Multiple dimensions
• Plugin channels
• Extensions
  • Transperent protocol-level proxy
  • FML protocol

Building

1. Install C++ compiler, CMake 3.5, SDL2, SDL2_net(exclude Linux), libZLIB, Lua5 and OpenAL.

Arch: sudo pacman -S cmake gcc sdl2 openal lua51

Debian: sudo apt install cmake g++ libsdl2-dev libopenal-dev liblua5.1-0-dev

Fedora: sudo dnf install cmake gcc-c++ SDL2-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel zlib-devel

Linux: GCC7 and system package manager.

Windows: Visual Studio 2017 and vcpkg.

2. Generate project-files for your compiler by CMake.

    git submodule update --init
    mkdir build && cd build
    cmake ..

3. Copy .minecraft/version/{version}/{version}.jar/assets/ to AltCraft-root/cwd/

You can extract .jar file as .zip archive.

/cwd/assets/minecraft/models/block/block.json must be a valid path.

4. Compile generated files. Content of /cwd/ will be automatically copied to directory with compiled binary.

Linux: make in directory with generated files.

Windows: Use VS2017 to open .sln file and build project.

5. Enjoy!