mc-preclassic-c

RubyDung (aka MC Preclassic) rewritten as God intended.

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What the hell is this?

This is me being insane enough to rewrite the very first public Minecraft versions
rd-132211, rd-132328, rd-20090515, rd-160052, rd-161348 released 2009, in plain C.

Why? Because I can.
And because the original was Java, and I wanted to see how far I could push a C port.

I kept file names and code organization close to the original repos:
GitHub: thecodeofnotch

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Versions covered

rd-132211

• Break and place tiles
• White flashing overlay on the block you’re aiming at
• Save the level by pressing Enter
• Respawn/reset position by pressing R

Screenshot

rd-132328

• Player movement/collision factored into a common Entity base (player now “inherits” physics).
• Minimal immediate-mode box builder used for characters.
• A simple biped (“zombie/human”) that wanders the world with basic hopping/striding animation.

Screenshot

rd-20090515

• General
  • Game tick is now 20 ticks per second
  • Fullscreen mode
  • Custom textures for each face of a tile
  • Added stone, dirt and wood tile
• Entity
  • Reduced zombie spawn amount to 10
  • Zombies who fall below y level -100 are now removed from the world
  • Modified physics of entities
  • Zombies now appear darker in the shadow
• World
  • Implemented perlin noise world generation
  • Grass can grow on dirt tiles in sunlight
• Controls
  • Added hotkey "G" to spawn zombies
  • Block picking using the number keys 1-4
• HUD
  • Crosshair
  • Picked tile in the top right corner

Screenshot

rd-160052

• Add tile destroy particles

Screenshot

rd-161348

• Added bush tile
• Changed HUD scale
• Flipped tile preview
• Rotate particles to the y camera position

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Building

Windows

Install MSYS2

Download and install from msys2.org.

Open the right shell

Launch “MSYS2 MinGW x64” (the icon says MINGW64).
⚠️ Do not use the plain “MSYS2 MSYS” shell.

Update and install toolchain + libraries

pacman -Syu                    # if it asks, close the window and reopen MINGW64, then run again
pacman -S --needed \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-glfw \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-glew \
  mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib \
  make

Build

git clone https://github.com/degradka/mc-preclassic-c.git
cd mc-preclassic-c/rd-[version]/src/
make

To run the game, make sure these DLLs are in the same folder as the exe:

• zlib1.dll
• libwinpthread-1.dll
• glew32.dll
• glfw3.dll

Don't forget that resources/ folder should also be in the same folder.

Linux

Tested on Arch Linux — other distros may need different package names.

Install dependencies

sudo pacman -S glew glfw

Build

git clone https://github.com/degradka/mc-preclassic-c.git
cd mc-preclassic-c/rd-[version]/src/
make

Don't forget that resources/ folder should also be in the same folder.

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References

• Wiki: Java Edition pre-Classic rd-132211
• Wiki: Java Edition pre-Classic rd-132328
• Wiki: Java Edition pre-Classic rd-20090515
• Wiki: Java Edition pre-Classic rd-160052
• Wiki: Java Edition pre-Classic rd-161348
• GitHub: The Code of Notch rd-132211
• GitHub: The Code of Notch rd-132328
• GitHub: The Code of Notch rd-20090515
• GitHub: The Code of Notch rd-160052
• GitHub: The Code of Notch rd-161348

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If you think this is a dumb project, you’re right. But it runs.