Minosoft
Minosoft is an open source minecraft client, written from scratch in kotlin (and java). It aims to bring more functionality and stability.
(To be clear: This is not clone of minecraft, it is a reimplementation)
(This software is not affiliated with Mojang AB, the original developer of Minecraft)
Notice: I am **not** responsible for anti cheat banned accounts, this project is heavily in development!
Feature overview
- Rendering
- Connect with any version to any server (1.7 - 1.19.2)
- Bleeding edge performance (e.g. incredible start time)
- Free (as far as we consider original minecraft as free) and open source
- Easy use of multiple accounts
- Multiple connections to servers in 1 process
- Multithreading and asynchronous loading
- Debugging on protocol layer
- LAN servers
- Multiple profiles (i.e. settings for servers or minosoft in general)
- Modding
- Independent, I will probably accept almost all patches
- Way more stuff
(some technical explanation about the render system is here). You can find information about the architecture design here
System requirements
- CPU: Multiple (4+) cores, high clock speed (2+ GHz)
- RAM: Minimum 500 MiB, 1 GiB recommended
- Disk space: 80 MiB + assets (~ 300 MiB per version)
- GPU: OpenGL 3.3+. Every modern GPU works and is recommended.
- Java 11+, 16+ recommended (Java 8 is not supported).
- A minecraft server (local or online)
Rendering
Features
- Blocks
- Entities (hitboxes and players for now)
- Block entities (e.g. signs, chests)
- HUD and GUI (inventory, menus, ...)
- Particles
- Basic block and skylight (custom light engine)
- Block and item interactions (e.g. place, break, mining)
Original physics(#91)- A lot more, only listing major things here, see the screenshots:
A world, with a ton of hud features exposed
The Hypixel skyblock hub (don't try to make such a screenshot)
AFK Pooling, Hit boxes, particles, ...
Lighting demo.
A beautiful sunset
Eros is the main gui. You can select your account/favorite server and then connect to it. Once everything is prepared, the rendering will start.
Version support
I always try to add support for the newest version of minecraft. Mostly it is pretty easy, just declaring it and generate all data. After pushing it, it is supported. Some versions are more complicated and need a bit of coding. I always try it as fast as possible, but sometimes I just need time.
Supported versions
Almost all versions (and snapshots!) between 1.7 and the latest one (1.19.2 as of writing this). I plan to maintain Minosoft to at least version 1.20, so stay tuned, also support for older protocols will not be dropped as newer protocols are added. It is still recommended using the latest stable version.
Unsupported versions
Minosoft uses PixLyzer as data source for all kind of data (like block ids, item ids, ...). PixLyzer currently works for 19w12a+ (1.14 snapshot) and 1.12.2 (these mappings are used for 1.7 - 1.12). 1.13 is currently unsupported and won't be in near future.
Modding
Works, still missing some features to make modding super easy (see e.g. #12)
Botting
Will be improved in the future.
Contribution or helping out
Please do it. I am completely busy with the development. Grab pretty much whatever you want and start developing. (But before please take a look at Contributing.md)
Credits and thanking words
See Credits.
Releases and beta
No clue. Don't wait for it :)
Background: I invested thousands of hours in this project to make it work. It is currently not really playable yet, but I am hardly working on it. A release normally means, that it is stable, has few (known) bugs and won't change that much in the near future. All those "requirements" are currently not fulfilled at all. There are a ton of bugs, issues, part of the core code changes frequently and Minosoft is still missing soooo many features. The current goal is to be able to play bedwars with this client, you can find the tracking issue here.
If you want to get notified when cool new features arrive or other interesting stuff happens were, feel free to subscribe to @MinosoftDevNews.
Downloads / Installation
Linux, Windows, macOS
The latest x64 build gets uploaded to github actions. See github actions
(macOS support is not fully done yet, see #29)
Arch
Thanks to @jugendhacker you can get minosoft directly from the arch user repository (AUR): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minosoft-git/
Building
- Install Java 11+ (e.g.
sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk). For Windows users, download and install java from oracle or openjdk. - Clone this repository (
git clone https://gitlab.bixilon.de/bixilon/minosoft.git) - Change directory (
cd minosoft) - Optional: Checkout a current feature branch (Warning: might be unstable; might not even build) (
git checkout <branch>) - Build and run Minosoft with
./gradlew run(or on windows./gradlew.bat run). If any errors occur, feel free to open an issue
Code mirrors
- gitlab.bixilon.de (Main repository)
- GitLab
- GitHub
This project/readme is work in progress, things may change over time.