CrossCraft
Clean-room Minecraft reimplementation in Zig, rebuilt era by era (Classic first) on a custom engine, with a classic server.
Clean-room AI-assisted releasedFacts
- Original
- Minecraft (2009)
- Platform
- Multi
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- AI-assisted · CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md in repo root what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- CrossCraft
- Started
- 2024-05
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux, macOS
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Download it from the official repository. No original files are needed.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by CrossCraft. Facts last checked 2026-10-19. Suggest a correction
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