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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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
Active
A from-scratch, open-source client replicating the 2009 Minecraft Classic client, running on a very wide range of platforms.
Platforms:WebWindowsLinux
Stars2,060
Updated12 days ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Halted
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
Halted
A Minecraft clone built entirely with HTML and CSS, using no JavaScript.
Platforms:Web
Stars1,940
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Sporadic
Halted
Active
Cubyz is a Minecraft-inspired 3D voxel sandbox written in Zig, with unlimited-height chunking and procedural tool crafting.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars3,661
Updated12 days ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2019
Halted
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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
Active
Freeminer is an open-source Minecraft-inspired sandbox game forked from the Minetest engine, playable on Windows, Linux, and Android.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxAndroid
Stars467
Updated11 days ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Sporadic
Halted
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
Updated4 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2014
Archived
Sporadic
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
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
Halted
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
Sporadic
A C++/OpenGL Minecraft clone built in one week for a YouTube challenge, with day-by-day progress logged.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars2,748
Updated10 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2017
Halted
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
Halted
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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
Active
The basic, mod-friendly sandbox game for the Luanti engine, with no set goals or enemy mobs.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,560
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2012
Active
A high-performance Minecraft server that fixes gameplay inconsistencies and offers a plugin API.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars12,641
Updated11 days ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2016
Active
Sporadic
Pycraft is a command-line, text-based 2D remake of Minecraft written in Python, with crafting and mining.
Platforms:Linux
Stars207
Updated5 months ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2014
Halted
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
Sporadic
A Minecraft-inspired sandbox built in Rust with Bevy, featuring procedural worlds, a day/night cycle, and online multiplayer.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars202
Updated11 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
Sporadic
Halted
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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
Updated28 days ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2011
Archived
Active
An open-source GPLv3 action-adventure RPG inspired by Cube World, Dwarf Fortress, and Minecraft.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars2,391
Updated8 days ago
Licensegpl-3.0+
Release2019
Halted
