stevenarella VS feather

Client side: - https://github.com/Thinkofname/steven - https://github.com/iceiix/stevenarella - https://github.com/DarkZek/RustCraft

stevenarella perhaps? 🙂

I suppose you could mod Stevenarella, which is a libre Minecraft client written in Rust, but it's very incomplete.

Not paladin-levels of morality? https://github.com/iceiix/stevenarella/issues/562

iceiix, the dev of stevenarella, is not as active sadly and it can take quite a while for them to respond to issues and pull requests. There was also a disagreement on the direction of a part of the project. If you check some Github discussions there were some discussions about it and this fork was made to accelerate development and do some large changes (e.g. remove web support, making the application multithreaded, move to a modern renderer, etc).

I haven't tried this project personally, but https://github.com/iceiix/stevenarella seems to be what you are looking for. It is an interesting thought that perhaps it is possible to play minecraft with completely free software.

There's also stevenarella, an implementation of the Minecraft client in Rust. I found these two projects just googling to see if anyone had ever attempted to do reimplementations of these things, and Feather was the first result. I'm both surprised and not surprised by how little known these projects are, including other Minecraft reimplemtations. Since I didn't know, I thought maybe other people who didn't know might be interested.

Server side: - https://github.com/feather-rs/feather - https://github.com/valence-rs/valence

- What server software or framework to use. Ideally, if you dont need too much vanilla features (world generation, all mobs & items implemented, etc), I'd use something lightweight that is not based off of the vanilla server software. There are a few projects like this on github, including: https://github.com/Minestom/Minestom , https://github.com/feather-rs/feather , https://github.com/KryptonMC/Krypton , https://github.com/df-mc/dragonfly (bedrock). Which one you use will probably depend mostly on your preference. - You will need a way to store data separate from the servers. A database like postgres should work. There are a lot of different databases tho!

There has been some work... feather mc server and piston's hematite client This client also seems to be in active development: Leafish

There is the feather port of Minecraft server. Lacking a gui but the serve could easily reach parity with some community help

As far as your enum idea goes, I don't directly see a place for storing chunk data in an enum (in the way that you would with Some(T). But, totally OK to store your block types that way (as feather-rs does)

The insight contributors chart is usually a good clue. It’s not perfect because it only shows the main branch configured in GitHub and some project haven’t merged to main in years.

Still, it’s good to see how many real contributors a project has, and how active they are over time.

https://github.com/feather-rs/feather/graphs/contributors

In a similar vein, there is also a Rust-based Minecraft server implementation:

https://github.com/feather-rs/feather

I think feather's plugin system is pretty cool