Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed and published by the Swedish company Mojang Studios. Following its initial public alpha release as an early access title in 2009, it was formally released in November 2011 for personal computers. The game has since been ported to numerous platforms, including mobile devices and various video game consoles.
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A high-performance Minecraft server that fixes gameplay inconsistencies and offers a plugin API.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars12,641
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2016
Halted
Craft is a Minecraft clone written in a few thousand lines of C with shader-based OpenGL, adding procedural terrain and multiplayer.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars11,102
Updated2 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2013
Sporadic
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Original game imageCuberite is a from-scratch, Minecraft-compatible multiplayer server in C++, extensible via a Lua plugin API, for protocols 1.8-1.12.2.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars5,446
Updated6 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
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Original game imageA Minecraft clone first built in 48 hours, with infinite terrain, biomes, a day/night cycle and RGB lighting.
Platforms:Linux
Stars4,416
Updated2 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2020
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An open-source voxel platform that grew from a Minecraft-inspired tech demo into a moddable game engine.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars3,897
Updated2 months ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2011
Active
Cubyz is a Minecraft-inspired 3D voxel sandbox written in Zig, with unlimited-height chunking and procedural tool crafting.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars3,661
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2019
Sporadic
A C++/OpenGL Minecraft clone built in one week for a YouTube challenge, with day-by-day progress logged.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars2,748
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2017
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Original game imageA clean-room, non-decompiled implementation of Minecraft beta 1.7.3, preserving the game before later additions.
Platforms:Windows
Stars2,457
Updated7 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2014
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Original game imagePurpur is a Minecraft server implementation, a drop-in replacement for Paper focused on configurability and new features.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars2,409
Updated1 month ago
LicenseMIT
Release2019
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An open-source GPLv3 action-adventure RPG inspired by Cube World, Dwarf Fortress, and Minecraft.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars2,391
Updated1 month ago
Licensegpl-3.0+
Release2019
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A from-scratch, open-source client replicating the 2009 Minecraft Classic client, running on a very wide range of platforms.
Platforms:WebWindowsLinux
Stars2,060
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Halted
A Minecraft clone built entirely with HTML and CSS, using no JavaScript.
Platforms:Web
Stars1,940
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Sporadic
A simple Minecraft-like world viewer built in Rust with the Piston engine, opening real 1.8.8-format Minecraft saves for personal use.
Platforms:None
Stars1,919
Updated6 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2014
Active
The basic, mod-friendly sandbox game for the Luanti engine, with no set goals or enemy mobs.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,560
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2012
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Original game imageModern Warfare 2, Skate 3 and Minecraft in one Rust game, built on the IW4L engine; needs your own copy of MW2.
Stars776
Updated1 month ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2026
Halted
An open-source, procedurally generated fantasy RTS/tycoon game where you manage a dwarf colony mining resources and fighting for profit.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars628
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
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Freeminer is an open-source Minecraft-inspired sandbox game forked from the Minetest engine, playable on Windows, Linux, and Android.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxAndroid
Stars467
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Halted
Manic Digger is a Minecraft-style voxel building game with singleplayer and multiplayer, a huge default world, and a C#/JS modding API.
Platforms:Windows
Stars402
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
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A C port of Minecraft Classic 0.0.30a using SDL2 and OpenGL, with optional raytracing in its modded build.
Platforms:WindowsOSX
Stars349
Updated1 year ago
LicenseMIT
Release2021
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Original game imageA self-described "very scuffed" Minecraft clone, built as a learning project and companion to a YouTube series.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars303
Updated10 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2024
ArchivedOriginal game image
Original game imageHyperium was a Forge-based Minecraft client mod that has since been discontinued, with maintainers pointing users to replacement mods.
Platforms:None
Stars253
Updated5 years ago
LicenseLGPL-3.0
Release2018
Sporadic
Pycraft is a command-line, text-based 2D remake of Minecraft written in Python, with crafting and mining.
Platforms:Linux
Stars207
Updated7 months ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2014
Sporadic
A Minecraft-inspired sandbox built in Rust with Bevy, featuring procedural worlds, a day/night cycle, and online multiplayer.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars202
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
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A simple browser-based Minecraft clone built with Three.js, made to teach developers alongside a video tutorial series.
Platforms:Web
Stars159
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2023
HaltedOriginal game image
Original game imageA from-scratch Minecraft server written in C#, supporting protocol 1.8.x with a custom world format.
Platforms:None
Stars82
Updated4 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2015
HaltedOriginal game image
Original game imageA Minecraft-like sandbox game forked from Minetest, with fully destructible blocks and multiplayer support.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars74
Updated6 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
HaltedOriginal game image
Original game imageDigbuild is an experimental voxel-based game similar to Minecraft, built in C++ with Agar, Boost, GMTL, and SDL, compiled with SCons.
Platforms:Linux
Stars63
Updated4 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2011
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An unfinished Minecraft clone written in C++ and OpenGL, with development tracked on a public Trello board.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars63
Updated4 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2019
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Original game imageA command-line tool that decompiles multiple Minecraft versions and commits each one to a Git repository for diffing.
Platforms:None
Stars62
Updated2 years ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2021
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Original game imageA C++ implementation of the Minecraft server protocol targeting 1.19.3, an early-stage school project not yet recommended for general use.
Platforms:Linux
Stars54
Updated1 year ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2022
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An in-development, from-scratch clone of Minecraft and Infiniminer written in C, now archived with development stopped.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars50
Updated3 years ago
LicenseBSL-1.0
Release2022
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Original game imageMagma is a hybrid Minecraft server built on NeoForge and Spigot, letting one server run both CraftBukkit/Spigot plugins and NeoForge mods.
Platforms:None
Stars44
Updated5 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
SporadicOriginal game image
Original game imageGnomescroll is a multiplayer voxel-based game with an open-source netclient, dual-licensed under GPLv3 and a proprietary license.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars32
Updated8 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2013
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Original game imageConstruder is a 3D game written in Perl with XS bindings, run as a separate server and client, licensed under the AGPL.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars23
Updated13 years ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2011
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A Minecraft-inspired voxel sandbox engine in Rust with wgpu, supporting native and WebAssembly builds and live-editable blocks.
Platforms:None
Stars22
Updated2 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2023
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A PlayStation Vita port of Minecraft PE v0.9.0 Alpha, installed as a VPK with your own game files.
Stars12
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
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Original game imageAn unmaintained rewrite of the SharpMC C# Minecraft server, targeting Java Edition 1.11.
Platforms:None
Stars12
Updated6 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2017
Halted
A Minecraft-inspired 3D voxel demo adapted from an ATmega32 microcontroller project, ported to PC via SDL 1.2 and optimized for weak CPUs.
Platforms:None
Stars6
Updated4 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
