Show HN: MCServer – A FOSS Minecraft server in C++, with Lua plugins

One thing that Minecraft has been missing, and that servers such as Bukkit tried to implement is an API for plugins. Looking through the docs, the LUA API[1] makes it seem as easily extendable as Garry&#x27;s Mod.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mc-server.xoft.cz&#x2F;LuaAPI&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mc-server.xoft.cz&#x2F;LuaAPI&#x2F;</a>

I tried out MCServer for a while. I put it back on the shelf after discovering that the redstone simulator was not as functional as the official server, and there are subtle behavioral differences in the things that do work. Between the two, some complex device designs that work on the official server break on MCServer.<p>But with respect to system resources, it&#x27;s very frugal.

Nice. A bunch of friends of mine play Minecraft, but I never really got into it. So I decided to look into the protocol, and coded a chat-only minecraft server in dlang, which the Mojang client can connect to. (I never released it, even though I meant to as OSS)

This is an interesting project. There <i>DOES</i> exist Minetest, which is c++ based, and uses lua entirely for running the worlds it serves. It&#x27;s GPL for server + client.<p>See <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minetest.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minetest.net&#x2F;</a>

They should pick a <i>working</i> donation medium though. Gratipay seems broken beyond recognition and I&#x27;m desperately throwing my cc to my monitor for the last twenty minutes.

The link should be <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mc-server&#x2F;MCServer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mc-server&#x2F;MCServer</a>

Why yet another one? There is already <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fador&#x2F;mineserver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fador&#x2F;mineserver</a> which could use more people working on it.