A completely clean-room implementation of Minecraft beta 1.7.3 (circa September 2011). No decompiled code has been used in the development of this software.
I miss the old days of Minecraft, when it was a simple game. It was nearly perfect. Most of what Mojang has added since beta 1.7.3 is fluff, life support for a game that was “done†years ago. This is my attempt to get back to the original spirit of Minecraft, before there were things like the End, or all-in-one redstone devices, or village gift shops. A simple sandbox where you can build and explore and fight with your friends. I miss that.
Only the server component is implemented at the moment, so they’re still using the official Minecraft client (hence the textures). Interesting project nonetheless.
They can’t just install the old version and play that?
Come on, do not dispute evolution.
It says on the Truecraft site that the authentication servers for the old version were shut down.
Honestly, I’m not surprised they’re doing this. I was planning to do something similar as a mod but the promised stable modding API never came.
ssokolow,
That’s a good point. Invariably the publisher servers shut down and DRM encumbered software becomes useless. Even if it’s something as basic as forced online registration to install, it won’t work any longer.
Much like how we reminisce over legacy computers today, affectionados in the future will likely try to revive today’s computers. However they’re going to be battling with operating systems, games, and applications that were intentionally designed to deny their self sufficiency. The best bet to avoid this are the pirated versions that don’t have this crap, but unfortunately even hardware is being designed to disallow end user side loading. It’s just sad.
If it can be useful to anyone: Also, there is Minetest, which is already packed for the major Linux distributions, Windows, OS X, Android, etc.
Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft and the like. It has been in development and use since October 2010.
http://minetest.net/
Edited 2015-05-01 19:48 UTC
Yeah, I was wondering why someone would play this rather than minetest.
Because “Minecraft-like” isn’t sufficient? “Minecraft 1.7.x but without the mods” is barely enough.
(What I really want is the “open-source Minecraft when interest in the game wanes” that Notch promised us alpha buyers)
For me to consider Minetest, they’d have to care about the similarities and differences enough to offer a comparison matrix.
Edited 2015-05-03 01:27 UTC
Me too, but I suppose I can’t blame him for selling it to Microsoft. Nice to see some open source efforts, and speaking of which, I recently learned about this more graphically advanced version of the game (also written in Java) called Terasology: http://terasology.org/
Nice to see.