Waylandcraft brings – A new Minecraft mod, Waylandcraft, adds a full Wayland compositor inside the game. Built by a developer known as [EVVIE] and released under the GPL, it lets players launch arbitrary programs and place their windows within Minecraft—though streaming those Wayla
The surprise isn’t just that Wayland is arriving in Linux desktop land. It’s that it’s arriving inside Minecraft.
A new software project called Waylandcraft brings a full Wayland compositor into the game—an unusual step for a technology that’s meant to replace the decades-old X11 windowing system. The project is the work of a developer known as [EVVIE]. who spent a considerable amount of time and effort getting it to work. The project also credits the build process as being done the old fashioned way, with no AI involvement.
For players who want to run it, the requirements are specific. Waylandcraft needs a Linux system running Minecraft, plus the Fabric mod loader and a few other tools. Once it’s up and running. the payoff is simple to describe and hard to ignore: users can launch arbitrary programs. and the windows can be placed within the Minecraft world as if they were in-game.
Windows aren’t locked to a single view, either. Users can place them in any orientation and interact with them like they would in a standard desktop environment—turning the game into something closer to a spatial workstation. [EVVIE] has also released all of the code under the GPL. inviting anyone who wants to try it out or build on the project to do so.
There’s a catch, and it’s the kind that matters if you mostly play with friends online. To show off the Wayland windows, you’ll need to do it in-person. Streaming the Wayland windows to other users through the server isn’t possible.
If you’re still deciding whether to spin up a Minecraft server at all, the source points to a lighter starting point: something like an ESP32 can be used to get going.
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So basically Minecraft is becoming Linux now? Cool I guess.
Wait it says you can launch arbitrary programs and place windows in Minecraft… but then says you can’t stream it to other users. So what’s the point if you play with friends? Sounds kinda useless.
Is this just another way to get around X11? Like if Wayland is replacing X11, wouldn’t you already be able to stream it? Idk, the article kinda jumps around. Also Fabric mod loader… that’s like half the people can’t even run it.
GPL means it’s open source so that’s good, but “spatial workstation” feels like marketing lol. I don’t get why they needed a full compositor inside a game when you could just use a regular desktop overlay. And “ESP32 to get going” like what even does that mean for normal players? Mine won’t even update half the time.