Redstone
Infrastructure
game server
SHOW HN2013
125points
56comments
#174of 1,739 in 2013
Top 11%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
6 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Performance: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
No lag with many players online
From 2 comments
Well, I'm logged in right now and there's no lag with many players. Try it.
artursapek on HNA Minecraft MMO? Would Mojang allow you to do that? Would Redstone still be categorized within the scope of a mod at that point? Either way, I logged on for a bit, and there was…
trbs on HN
Interesting and neat project
From 2 comments
This is super neat!
zachlatta on HNInteresting. Great work guys!
trbs on HN
Objections
No source code released yet
From 1 comment
Cool, a distributed minecraft server. But where's the source, or something more technically meaty? "I made a distributed X and here's some screenshots" isn't that interesting…
throwaway54-762 on HN
Possible conflict with Mojang's brand policy for an MMO
From 2 comments
Do you have any sort of permission or support from Mojang? It might not be a good idea to invest a substantial amount of time in "A Minecraft MMO" without this...
pizzeys on HNA Minecraft MMO? Would Mojang allow you to do that? Would Redstone still be categorized within the scope of a mod at that point? Either way, I logged on for a bit, and there was…
trbs on HN
Requests
Open source the project
From 2 comments
Cool, a distributed minecraft server. But where's the source, or something more technically meaty? "I made a distributed X and here's some screenshots" isn't that interesting…
throwaway54-762 on HNPlease tell me you are going to opensource / release this, this would be so awesome for some Minecraft Related projects i'm doing ( Gigantic PVP & RPG Servers ) I just can't go…
Chunkr on HN
Questions
Why Node.js instead of Java or C for a game server
From 2 comments
Seriuosly interested, why is Node.js better suited as a gameserver than say C or Java ? What exactly are you doing on the serverside? Is it an authorative setup or are you just…
kayoone on HNSure, Java or C will be much faster at any computational work. And I am no node.js fan-boi. But doing actual asynchronous local-file IO in C is non-trivial, and if their server…
throwaway54-762 on HN
Whether the protocol was reverse engineered
From 2 comments
Seriuosly interested, why is Node.js better suited as a gameserver than say C or Java ? What exactly are you doing on the serverside? Is it an authorative setup or are you just…
kayoone on HNThe protocol isn't public and Mojang has always refused to say anything about it. The protocol is RE'd by http://mcdevs.org/ which runs http://wiki.vg. There is no technical or…
TkTech on HN
Alternatives named
Minefold
From 1 comment
Interesting that you guys are applying to YC 13. Note that YCombinator already have invested in a very similar company: Minefold[1]. TC had some info on that too[2]. [1]…
DanielRibeiro on HN
PocketMine-MP
From 1 comment
This might have come up on HN when it was released, but here it is anyway. A minecraft server written in php. edit: updated repo https://github.com/shoghicp/PocketMine-MP
w-ll on HN
Spout
From 1 comment
Spout is working on a client as well as an open server, both are designed to be general purpose for voxel based games but have minecraft compatibility plugins:…
mbell on HN
Minecraft Realms
From 1 comment
Mojang is already working on a Minecraft MMO [1] - how would this be different? [1] http://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/1018151-minecraft-realms
bitsweet on HN