BurningPig

###A Minecraft 1.7.2 Server in Node.js

** The protocol change from 1.6.4 to 1.7.2 is huge and in progress**

BurningPig is a custom server for the creative game Minecraft: www.minecraft.net

##Direction I had originally forked the nodecraft project as the start of a modern Minecraft server. That project looked like it was originally built for Node v0.4, and Node has seen alot of improvements since then. I also wasn't happy with the way the protocol was being handled. They tried to staticly define it, and enough packets are dynamic based on their content that I didn't want to try and fix it.

BurningPig was a fresh start using Node v0.8+ and the goodness it has to offer, like streams!

Node v0.10. is now required for streams2 support!* - I'll add backwards compat soon.

##Current Features

• The vanilla client can connect and donwload the (boring) terrain
• Time, so day and night happen
• Chat messages are sent to all connected clients
• Player positions sync'd across connected clients
• Server settings are now stored in 'settings.json'.
• Digging! & persistent terrain
• Pickups after digging
• Placing blocks
• Protocol encryption
• Player validation against minecraft.net
• Node v0.10.* is now required!

##What's Next

• Player inventory (only current session, not persisted yet)
• Terrain lighting
• Terrain generation

##On The Way

• Persisted Players & Inventory
• Game tick events (ex: water flowing, grass growing, etc)
• Dynamic client chunk loading/unloading

##Server Settings The settings that control the server options are stored in the settings.json file.

Current settings: serverName - The name of the server that shows up in the Multiplayer server screen.
listenPort - The TCP port the server listens on.
maxPlayers - The maximium number of players the server supports.
gameMode - The game mode
dimension - The dimension of the world
difficulty - World difficulty

Example:

{
    "serverName": "BurningPig DevServer!",
    "listenPort": 25565,
    "maxPlayers": 8,
    "gameMode": 0,
    "dimension": 0,
    "difficulty": 1
}

##Installing BurningPig

Using NPM, installing is as easy as: npm install burningpig

Live Test Server

Once I get a little further along, I will put up a test server where people can check out the latest version.

##License BurningPig is MIT licensed. You know the drill. Enjoy!