Infos about the project.
The goal is to develop a new Minecraft server according to modern standards. This means stateless design pattern and a implementation which should go in the direction of reactive microservices.
The Notchain Minecraft server is not microservice or stateless, so the Minecraft client is not designed that way. That's why we have to mix SOA and microservices.
Important: Everything runs stateless. Only the database knows.
Problems with a decentralized minecraft server but a central plugin and our way around it: It is a small paradox to pull something apart only to make it centrally accessible again at the end. We have thought about this problem a lot and got stuck with our current solution. We don't have a direct connection between api, translator or mc services, this will only work through a message service, we do this to continue the concept of asynchrony and not to introduce a complex system between client and server communication.
- better performance usage as the normal minecraft server
- better security, though security filtering in the first place
- handle more players with less hardware, becuase of better scaling from different services
- more features, through better api architecture, like minestom
- able to handle hunderts or thousands players on the same world
- (easy) k8s deployment :)
Baisc idea for the technical stack: TECHSTACK
Explaning the diffrent parts of the system:
- Connector: Here will the minecraft client connect to the server. And translates the packet from java or bedrock to a universal format. And send it into the message service.
- Message Service: The message service is the central point of the system. It will handle the communication between the api, the connector and the mc services.
- MC Services: On the mc services runs all important stuff like the world, the player, the inventory, the crafting, the chat, the command etc. for a actual minecraft server. Most things in a event driven way.
- API: The api is the interface between the services and the plugins.
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