by Fador & Nredor and others

You can find the core team from #mineserver @ irc.esper.net Also mail to developers@mineserver.be will reach us.

Copyright (c) 2010, The Mineserver Project

Custom Minecraft Beta server software written in C++.

Currently in (early) development. (Alpha stage) Server still lacks some features and should be only used for testing.

Tested to build on

• Windows (VS2010 and VS2008 projects included)
• Linux (Makefile included)
• Mac OS X
• FreeBSD / PCBSD

We are trying to minimize memory and CPU usage compared to original Java server.

• Various chat commands, more to come..
• NBT parsing/saving
• Lightmap generation
• Config file
• Normal mining/item spawning/item pickups
• Basic physics for gravel and sand
• Experimental physics for water
• Flatland map generation
• Working chests, furnaces & signs
• Terrain map generation with caves and minerals

Depends on (and tested with):

zlib 1.2.5 libevent 1.4.14b libnoise 1.0 ncurses/pdcurses

• Installing on Debian and Ubuntu: (For Ubuntu libevent1 -> libevent-1.4-2)

  sudo apt-get install ncurses5 ncurses5-dev libevent1 libevent-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libnoise-dev

• Installing on CentOS and RHEL

  # Install EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) sudo su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm' sudo yum install git libevent libevent-devel zlib zlib-devel libnoise-dev

• Installing on FreeBSD / PCBSD

  sudo pkg_add -r libevent

• Installing on Mac OS X

  • Install libevent using your favourite tool, e.g., homebrew, fink or macports.
  • Installing libnoise can be painful. Howerver, there is a homebrew formular on krono's homebrew fork.

  So for homebrew do

  brew install libevent libnoise

Compiling using linux (make & gcc):

• Download and extract source or use git clone git://github.com/fador/mineserver.git
• Go to mineserver/src/ directory
• Run make or make DEBIAN=1 for Debian/Ubuntu
• Run server with ./mineserver

Compiling using FreeBSD / PCBSD (gmake & g++):

• Download and extract source or use git clone git://github.com/fador/mineserver.git
• Go to mineserver/src/ directory
• Run gmake
• Run server with ./mineserver

Compiling using windows (VS2010/VS2008):

• Download and compile zlib or use pre-built binaries
• Add zlib libraries to project (zlibstat.lib or zlibwapi.lib which requires also zlibwapi.dll in the same dir with the executable)
• Download and compile libevent
• Download libnoise 1.0 and add header/library files to project
• Add libevent library to project (libevent.lib)
• Build
• Run mineserver.exe

An example using commandline compiler available at http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/ Please change the ZLIB_INC_DIR, LIBEVENT_INC_DIR, ZLIB_LIB_DIR and LIBEVENT_LIB_DIR to those you keep the includes/libs.

call "%VS100COMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat"
cl /I"ZLIB_INC_DIR;LIBEVENT_INC_DIR" /W3 /WX- /O2 /D ZLIB_WINAPI /D WIN32 /D NDEBUG /D _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS /EHsc *.cpp zlibwapi.lib libevent.lib Ws2_32.lib /link /OUT:mineserver.exe /LIBPATH:"ZLIB_LIB_DIR;LIBEVENT_LIB_DIR"