A simple Minecraft written in Rust with the Piston game engine

cargo build --release

This method is only for personal use. Never distribute copyrighted content from Minecraft.

<version> = 1.8-pre2

Minecraft stores data in the folder /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/minecraft

• In the Minecraft Launcher, click the button "New Profile"
• Type in a profile name, for example "experimental"
• Check "Enable experimental development versions"
• A message warns you about keeping backups of your worlds. Click "Yes" (remember to do backups)
• In the drop down "use version", select <version>
• Click "Save Profile"
• Click "Play" (this will download the snapshot)
• Quit Minecraft
• Copy versions/<version>/<version>.jar to the assets folder in Hematite
• Rename the file extension to .zip
• Extract the jar
• Copy the minecraft folder from the new extracted folder and put it in the Hematite assets folder
• Run ./target/hematite "/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves/<world>"