OpenMiner

• Project goal
• Keys
• Wiki
• How to compile
• Discussion
• Project status
• Screenshots
• Previous attempts
• Credits

Project goal

The long-term goal of this project is to provide a viable alternative to Minecraft modding.

Keys

• Movement: WASD
• Inventory: E
• Jump: Space
• Sprint: Ctrl
• Jetpack: X
• Exit: Escape
• Debug: F3

Wiki

• Lua API Overview

How to compile

Using Linux

• Dependencies:
  • A compiler with C++14 support
  • CMake
  • GameKit (requires SDL2 + tinyxml2, will switch to SFML starting from 2.6)
  • SFML (only used for network)
  • Lua
  • Linux users: Check your distribution repositories for packages.
• Run cmake .
• Run make -j8
• Run the server with ./server/openminer_server
• Run the client with ./client/openminer

Using Windows

• Wiki: Compiling on Windows using CMake and MinGW-w64
• Wiki: Compiling on Windows using CMake and Visual Studio 2017

Discussion

• Discord: join server

Project status

This list is non exhaustive.

Implemented features

• Menus (title screen, server selection, pause menu, settings menu)
• Basic worldgen (lakes, trees, flowers, pseudo-caves)
• Infinite world in X/Y/Z axis
• Lighting system with smooth lighting
• Networking
• Lua API
  • Block/item/recipe definition
  • Custom GUI creation
• Special blocks (workbench, furnace)
• Block metadata

Missing features

• Texture pack system
• World loading/saving
• Particle system
• Fluid propagation
• Player model display (currently displaying an ugly box)
• Day/night cycle with sun/moon display
• Real worldgen (seed-based, biomes, cave tunnels)
• Entities (block drops, mobs, etc...)
• Clouds

Screenshots

Previous attempts

• Here is the commit matching the end of the first attempt made in 2013.
• And here is the commit matching the end of the second attempt made in 2014.

You can find an history of the project here.

Credits

• MadPixel (Minecrafter font) [CC BY-ND]
• xMrVizzy (Faithful 32x texture pack, will completely replace Vanilla textures)