Minecraft High Performance Redstone Server

A minecraft creative server built for redstone. Each 128x128 plot runs on its own thread, allowing for less lag and more concurrency.

Installation

As there are currently no releases, you must build from source.

If the Rust compiler is not already installed, you can find out how on their official website.

git clone https://github.com/StackDoubleFlow/MCHPRS.git
cd rjvm
cargo build --release

Once complete, the optimized executable will be located at ./target/release/mchprs or ./target/release/mchprs.exe depending on your operating system.

Under the hood

When the server starts up, the main thread, which will from now on be referred to as the server thread, loads the Config.toml file and starts the networking thread. Threads communicate using message passing.

Server thread

The server thread handles the initialization process of the server and the login/ping procedure for connecting clients. If a client completes the login procedure, a Player struct will be loaded containing the client.

Networking thread

The networking thread handles all incoming clients. When there is a new client, a client thread is created. The client is then sent to the server thread through message passing.

Client thread

The client thread manages the TCP connection between the Minecraft client and this server. The client thread sends incoming packets to the server thread or a plot thread depending on its state.

Plot thread

The plot thread handles most of the logic for the server. This is where the real magic happens. Player movment, player rotation, worldedit, command handling, world saving/loading, etc. is all handled by this thread. If this thread crashes somehow, the player will be sent back to the server thread to be moved to another plot*.