Yet another Minecraft server written in Rust

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Hello HN! For the past year I've been working on Oxide, a Minecraft server written from scratch in Rust. Currently supported features include: - Multiple players with basic interactions (see item in hand or armor and their position) - Chat (without encryption) and some basic commands - Placing and breaking blocks (very few block state rules implemented) - Loading and saving vanilla worlds - Creative mode You can try it out by just joining play.oxide.thetxt.io with a Java 1.21.8 Client. You don't need an account, because I haven't implemented online mode login yet ;) The server restarts at the beginning of every hour, so in case you can't connect because it crashed, you can just try again later. You can also spin up your own with docker, see my example docker-compose.yml[1] Because this is supposed to be a learning opportunity, I have opted to use as few external dependencies or LLM help as possible. At the moment, the only crate I depend on is flate2 for compression/decompression and jzon in my tooling. I'm also making videos about the progress and how different features work and are implemented.[2] My favorite so far is about how Minecraft stores worlds to disk.[3] While I'm of course not the first one to make a Minecraft server in Rust[4], its still been a great learning opportunity! I look forward to implementing more features, like block entities, entities, multiple dimensions and online mode. I also just released the first version 0.1 a couple of days ago. Of course I also made a video about that[5], which I also adapted into a blog post[6]. In there I explain more about what this project is. [1] https://git.thetxt.io/thetxt/oxide/raw/branch/main/docker-compose.yml [2] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLht_DnAZ_Av4UZwQGhz7aNDMH9pfI0ein [3] https://youtu.be/P3SBNN_b7-Q [4] https://dayssincelastrustmcserver.com/ [5] https://youtu.be/z4tAE1xLB3o [6] https://thetxt.io/blog/2025-08-29-releasing-oxide

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