A rewrite of Minecraft 1.8.9 in C++ ! It is fricking fast with multi-threading, and other amazing features and optimizations. Information such as installation, contributing can be found on the GitHub's page. Here's a quick FAQ.

WHY another server ?

We created another server library because of a small side project and because we felt the need to create something to replace all the bloaty-servers Bukkit-based that are way too inefficient. Even though PaperMC tries to tackle that by removing the slack of Bukkit, it is still way too slow compared to other game's current standards.

Why bother using C++ ?

Mineserver, in contrast to Mojang's java build, aims to be blazingly fast so that it entirely surpasses other implementations such as Paper and other. We could rewrite the server in Java, but, in the end, using a low-level programming does help the work.

Why making it Open-Source ?

We made it open source mainly because we want to share this project and because we don't feel the need to hide it. We want to help inspire many programmers that I hope will one day read over this project because it crosses a lot of programming concepts. That's why the code used here should be reusable, readable and fully documented. For documentation, we use doxygen which you can see in the bottom-right corner. This is not the default skin of doxygen though.

Why 1.8.9 ?

We also aim for stability, and to help us for that we only target Minecraft 1.8.9 (because it is used a lot). Of course, when the project extends in the future, we aim to support more and more versions. But for the time being, because we want first to create a strong architecture, we only support 1.8.9 and theoretically all 1.8 versions.

What features do you have compared to others ?

We have several features :

• We try to be as time-efficient as possible
• We try to be very memory-efficient, no need for 2Gb of RAM any more just for 2-players play
• We added fricking multithreading which is a late addition to Minecraft if we compare it to other games, no need for a godly CPU any more !
• And many more... (Remember that this is only the start of the project)

Why does the project takes so much time ?

This project takes sooooo much time because of its nature. Because we decided to write it in C++ to leverage its low-levelness, memory-efficiency and speed. But with great power comes great responsibility. Because of C++ and the way it was designed, it takes way more time to design project using it ! And finally it's not like we have 200+ peoples behind keyboards to code this project.

End note with a touch of existential crisis

If you read all of this (you liar) well done ! If you want to ask other questions that are not on this page, ask using GitHub's issues system.

I (Lygaen) used "we" throughout this FAQ, but I am very alone to create this project. That's why any help, even from beginners is welcomed ! I'll always be happy to help you guys in any way. I don't think that anyone will be reading this but anyway ! It's like I'm having an existence crisis on the keyboard, it is very weird...

Nevertheless, I hope that you guys will have a great day (and go outside for god's sake!) and that reading these small paragraphs on why I created / still continue to work on this project will give you a bit of hope of what the open-source community is able to do with a bit of time. It will be important that you keep this feeling intact and maybe pass it to another person later, it might greatly help them in some way or another...

PS : English is not my main language so all of it might feel weird to read at first, but I assure you that I'm trying my best to give you my good vibes and not trying to pluck your eyeballs !