Brine

Brine is my attempt at writing a Minecraft client in Rust using the Bevy game engine. It's EXTREMELY work-in-progress.

The thing that makes Brine unique is that it is based on a high-level abstraction of the Minecraft protocol that isn't specific to any one game version¹. This is defined in the brine_proto crate.

The goal for this API is to be generic enough to express the logic of the Minecraft game for any version of the game, including (in theory) Bedrock Edition. We'll see if that ends up being possible, I still have a lot to learn about the differences in Minecraft versions.

I don't recall what exactly gave me the idea for the name "Brine." I think I was thinking of Rust, then crustaceans, then the sea, and I landed on "Brine." I only later realized that it was short for Herobrine :-).

Docs

I take care to write good rustdocs for my code as much as possible. Generate and view them like so:

cargo doc --workspace --no-deps --open

Or ditch the --no-deps if you want to be able to follow links to dependency crates (this will generate docs for a lot of crates though).

Most crates also have a README. See crates/README.md for a good overview of the architecture of the whole project.

Credits

bevy

A huge thanks goes out to the wonderful community that is developing the Bevy game engine.

stevenarella

Mega shoutout to @Thinkofname and @iceiix for the hard work put into the steven and stevenarella projects respectively. Having a reasonably robust implementation of a couple dozen different Java Edition protocol versions implemented from the get-go is amazingly helpful for bootstrapping this project.

Minecraft data and assets

Thanks to PrismarineJS for maintaining the minecraft-data and prismarine-chunk repositories.

Thanks to @InventivetalentDev for maintaining the minecraft-assets repository.

Thanks to @Trivernis for porting minecraft-data to Rust.

Building blocks

Thanks to @bonsaiboro for providing multiple useful crates related to voxel game development, including block-mesh.

License

This project is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

Copyright Ben Reeves 2022

Footnotes

1. Being "protocol-generic" isn't new; see projects that came before like steven/stevenarella. What is sort of new is the attempt to abstract the logic of Minecraft into an API that greatly decouples the application logic from the implementation details of the backend. ↩