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A Minecraft server written in COBOL


A Minecraft server written in COBOL. Contribute to meyfa/CobolCraft development by creating an account on GitHub.

To make it accessible from the outside (your local network, via VPN, port forwarding, on a rented server, ...), you can start the Docker container like this: A lot of this functionality had to be implemented completely from scratch, but with some clever programming, data encoding and decoding is not just fully working, but also quite performant. The official Minecraft (Java Edition) server and client applications contain large amounts of data such as:

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