Adding infinite build height and colored lights to my Minecraft engine

See the code on GitHub: github.com/jdah/minecraft-wee...
This is an update video to the original game which I made in a weekend, see that video here: • Making Minecraft from ...
NOTES:
* Noise textures at 7:39 are from redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/
* New textures are a mashup of some custom, some from the Quandary pack, and some from Jolicraft
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[@Kole-jb8yb]

Plz keep adding to this project. Every other person who does this leaves it unfinished. For once I would love to see one with actual gameplay.

[@England91]

Looks like he's abandoned it

[@Kole-jb8yb]

England 91 yeah I am sad about that.

[@woutmotmans6240]

@@Kole-jb8yb just play minecraft if you want actual gameplay...?

[@kremlinbasement7768]

@@woutmotmans6240 The both editions are updated by commercial developers who are interested in one-time updates and not in optimization and technology (

[@Kole-jb8yb]

Wout Motmans honestly I don’t care to play it, it would just be cool to see a KZbin who went farther then making terrain and lighting. They don’t need to go as far as a finished game, but it would be cool to see things like an inventory and survival aspects. Plus he said that he would be updating it regularly.

[@Leander_]

Cool! I love these personal coding projects, very fun to watch.

[@EVILBUNNY28]

When you take Minecraft's "guide to ripping us off" too literally

[@soraltt]

hey, they had it coming

[@nebulisnoobis102]

It’s not a ripoff if it comes out better than the original

[@roux6715]

@@nebulisnoobis102 no, it’s still a ripoff, but it’s become greater. A ripoff isn’t a ripoff once people go to that over the original to the point where the original is mostly forgotten.

[@nebulisnoobis102]

@@roux6715 oh damn

[@williamsmith6921]

@@roux6715 for example, infiniminer, minecraft's original inspiration

[@m4rt_]

8:00 OMG, it looks amazing

[@hdhwkq]

THXS bear guy

[@paulo0651]

Yup

[@ravenecho2410]

yeah that shot actually just filled me with existential dread...

[@nickcamilo9207]

Smooth Lighting: "Hey Gu-" Jdh: "Stay BACK!"

[@DrewTeter]

Summer 2021 - Mojang: "We're releasing our Caves and Cliffs Update!" This Guy: "Me too! It took me a month, how long did you guys work on it?"

[@thewatcher8733]

He did a more simple design

[@DrewTeter]

@@thewatcher8733 I'm aware. I'm also a software engineer. But this is still impressive for the time he put in.

[@graydisk]

There's a mod that do that before, is for the 1.12.2 java on forge

[@freyamiles3718]

@@graydisk Cubic chunks

[@fltfathin]

In mojang's defence it's an old codebase

[@raves_r3177]

The entire mojang studio bows down to you good sir.

[@nidhishsalian2268]

@@FoxBlocksHere why would they send a cease and desist? He isn't selling it is he?

[@Exeros]

@@nidhishsalian2268 Nope, it seems to be open sourced,

[@razordmg64]

@@FoxBlocksHere they had it coming by making the “how we make minecraft” KZbin series.

[@theopendoorev]

Y’all forget Minecraft, this.

[@youreyesarebleeding1368]

@@FoxBlocksHere Actually Mojang is pretty chill, they allow tones of minecraft like games to exist, and they don't send out cease and desists to games even with similar titles and gameplay

[@brandonstevens6886]

This is the only minecraft clone which actually gives the feeling of minecraft

[@rokcetmakesgarbage]

Incredibly fascinating, please keep making these.

[@thatcipher]

ngl the coolest minecraft clone project i've ever seen!

[@domojestic4155]

You should SERIOUSLY start some programming classes/tutorials. The skill you show is amazing, and a deep-dive into the skills needed to do things like this would not go unnoticed by the community. I know I, myself, would be eternally grateful!

[@ethernalsixx]

this is a real "Making a minecraft from scratch" good work!!!

[@Enderia2]

Yeah, considering it doesnt use any game engines!

[@huh7567]

This is so cool! I've been waiting for this!

[@GhostSlayerYT]

Huh?

[@hdhwkq]

Ur girl ?

[@zlrivo]

Anny ?!

[@Carmisci]

Man, you're slowly recreating Minecraft from scratch but better.

[@thegermanhero204]

It just needs the same features that minecraft has

[@omnitroph1501]

@@thegermanhero204 Nah, a lot of what Microsoft shoved into Minecraft is useless anyway. Remember the "but better" descriptor: it won't b e the same as Minecraft, but rather an improved version of it, including features that players actually want rather than fluff added for advertising value.

[@N4t0r]

@@omnitroph1501 idk minecraft is pretty good and they added a lot of really cool stuff and have more on the way. Would probably take him quite some years to implement all the stuff minecraft has right now without "copy and pasting" it.

[@N4t0r]

@@omnitroph1501 because you really make it sound like minecraft is a game that is so limited by the devs i mean it has a huge community and is easy to modify with mods from others or by yourself so i dont even get what you are complaining about.

[@omnitroph1501]

@@N4t0r I wasn't complaining about anything, just saying that there are some features that the game doesn't need.

[@theoneandonly1833]

"Since blocks never rotate around strange angles" and the Create team took that personally.

[@Epsicronics]

So personally in fact that they did it lol

[@maxrodriguez643]

My man, you are a genius. I'm just intermediate at programming, would take me years to learn to do this Seriously, when I saw this had 8k views, I was expecting 500k+

[@SchattenWolf2008]

OMG ive never saw such a small channel doing so big projects! Thats so cool! You should have more subs, really.

[@zebadiahrettinghouse6321]

He is the definition of doing something you love first and getting subscribers because of it.

[@jackfrederiksen7979]

This is amazing, I'm super excited to see where you take this!

[@Vairoon]

jdh: "adding colored lights is actually pretty easy" mojang: im just gonna pretend that i didnt see that

[@williamsmith6921]

they basically overengineered colored lights in by adding in nvidia RTX support lol

[@kabobawsome]

It IS pretty easy when you are writing your lighting engine from scratch. Any modder can tell you it's not that simple without a total rewrite of the now huge lighting engine.

[@zilverlazarus2900]

I'm late to the party, but if you kept this game's development going, I would 100% play it. Amazing job so far.

[@ff-jt8un]

Anyone who has ever programmed knows how truly impressive this project is. Good job dude!

[@kleesup]

@@LegendLength but when minecraft was sold there was way more stuff in the game than simple entity implementation. It had lag-free networking, perfect world generation, precise entity AI and pathfinding and way more. This project is still very small in comparison to minecraft 1.7

[@kleesup]

@@LegendLength As someone who isn't using any game engine at all and worked with same library as mojang does I can say what are you talking about is easy to say but way more difficult and/or time consuming to implement. You are right, the networking stuff of minecraft isn't great but it still took its time to make and for all the performance issues you have to fix so it runs smooth for client and server. The world generation is also an interesting topic. Until you finally got it perfectly working like you wanted it is also an frustrating and stressful task to do. I agree, entity ai isn't that hard to do, there are many good libraries out there, but it's still a question of how smooth you make it so that updates of entities path goals doesn't freeze the main thread. In conclusion you are right, the game isn't perfectly made, but it was still a lot of work and this project here is still far away from the point of minecrafts version when minecraft got sold.

[@softwarelivre2389]

@@kleesup and the most important of all: a huge community.

[@MatthewPepe]

Very cool! Would love to see another update video!

[@aspectreishauntingeurope]

I love this type of videos! I think this could be a very good series. Please don't stop making these videos.

[@Akiruu_Sama]

Dude, I just discovered you today. I watched all your videos and I can tell you that you are lit, continue like that I appreciate a lot your work !

[@jsnotlout3312]

I love when you show the failures, Because it shows the true nature of game development

[@Protoplosion]

This is the best Minecraft video! you can inspire many with this.

[@FrostKing104]

This is actually really cool. I can't wait to see the differences (like RGB and cubic chunks) as you progress.

[@proshark9966]

please, this is by far the most advanced and best one outhere! Keep updating it, i find this series very entertaining!

[@evplayspiano]

whoa, you are so talented, how is you channel not more popular than it is?!?! and I love how there is 0 dislikes on the video :)

[@kaliber174]

When a Minecraft clone has better terrain generating then actual minecraft

[@oglothenerd]

I love this video so much! I find myself watching it over and over again!

[@iTzNabGamingPvP]

Looks great. Especially the terrain generation and the stars

[@AnimePerson]

Great video man, how far are planing to go on this project? i'd love to see the games that you would make in the future

[@oneway7122]

Imagine someone writing a modding module for this! The whole community could work on, and improve it!

[@xGOKOPx]

Why would you need a modding module if the source code is right there on his github?

[@oneway7122]

@@xGOKOPx Bc a modeling tool is optimized for adding features to the game and handles the background stuff with the game so that you have a frame work to build your mod on top. This is the same reason why game engines exist. Yes, you could build a new physics system, camera system and collision system or you could just write a framework that handles all that so that you don't have to worry about that and only need to add what ever you want.

[@the4thsteve27]

@@xGOKOPx because if you want to use more than one mod they might conflict

[@guitear6945]

Keep up the good work, it looks really cool, it reminds me a lot of early minecraft, you might be able to pull of one of the greatest minecraft clones

[@williamragstad]

This is amazing, please keep working on this game! Add items and mobs for example!

[@pman4314]

I’m so happy I found this Chanel it’s like a hidden gem

[@dottokai]

the 23 dislikes are the coders at mojang being mad they couldn’t do better

[@ChopiCapi]

no they are just bots The coders at mojang are better and dont give a shit

[@mrredstone5315]

@@ChopiCapi these arent better coders at all minecraft has a massive amount of problems about the performance... great devs... great.... and they give a shit about the community

[@rainbowskeppy5292]

i think you meant 58

[@adrian_nlljw]

this is amazing please keep updating this series!!

[@photoniccannon2117]

I love your sense of humor as you're explaining things. Entertaining and excellent as always.

[@stefix1615]

Sub count: 13 *Rubs eyes* Sub count: 13K What a transformation! also plz keep adding to this, exactly what Kole5150 said.

[@kaiobarb]

QUALITY CONTENT

[@pedroduran8927]

wow i have no words, your coding skills are amazing, very cool job! keep going with these amazing projects :D

[@rainb0_0]

omg ! you should continue this series ! amazing stuffff

[@theopendoorev]

Mojang devs watching after saying it’s too hard to add these: 👁👄👁

[@psigreen3864]

Lol. To be fair though, they do have to work around a lot of old spaghetti code leftover from the beginning of development, so I can imagine it must be difficult.

[@alonsoACR]

@Him dude, C is by far more tedious this guy is just that good

[@FunAngelo2005]

Its now minecraft alpha

[@mantasreika]

Really cool ! Would love to see more updates

[@masela01]

"I also redid all the textures lol" How does this not get a proper mention? These are amazing!

[@redstoneninja3375]

Just don't leave it like this pls continue work on this

[@llamaknight]

Amzing pls tell me there's a part 3

[@Batpolygon]

So cool , it's one of the best Minecraft Like a ever seen. Keep updating 🙃

[@TheHeFisher]

The fact that you only have 4 videos and they are all amazing is saying something, you are really talented. Keep up the wonderful work!

[@glenyeldho5782]

Incredible !! How long did it take to reach this level any recommendation for learning c /opengl

[@darltrash]

OpenGL and C are very messy imho, i think it's better to use Sokol or BGFX with something like Zig

[@4n0ngaming]

@@darltrash I think C is a pretty good language and importantly it is well documented. OpenGL also seems extremely popular, but I can't comment on whether it's good as I haven't used it

[@darltrash]

@@4n0ngaming C is okay, but it can get messy specially considering that a lot of times the compiler wont take a shit about things that can be horribly dangerous, take the Linux kernel as an example of software that suffers from a lot of insecurities due to C's way of managing memory. There is uncountable ways things can be wrong, leading to possible exploits that can damage things at a big scale. But yes, C is still a good language but still, it's design is not exactly the best design

[@lifeless9768]

@@darltrash C is not that bad. It's completely procedural but it's also simple.

[@benjioffdsv]

Id recommend C++ and direct x or a game engine like unity (language is C#). If you want to use C and openGL there is plenty of documentation for you to exploit on the internet just search it up

[@edgaro93]

5:32 woooow

[@dsi-films1264]

These videos are so good, it’s so surprising to see this have only 29k views, I think you’re gonna blow up man keep up the amazing work!

[@jasonvick6617]

Your dynamic biome system with the different moisture maps and such is straight-up genius.

[@nullFoo]

Please add the water overlay so that water doesnt just become invisible when youre in it

[@fyre5287]

Wish I could do this :/ maybe one day

[@JoseOliveira-lz1up]

Incredible, i used C for a long time and understand how hard this work is compared with others languages. Keep doing this!

[@getgettedon6965]

The colored lights looked amazing and the world that was generated using improved the map generation look really nice.

[@codewaterairsoftandmore1050]

"This was stolen right out of minecrafts physics system" looks at rest of game, yep seems original to me.

[@fatalityFTWXD]

Bro can I please Minecraft stargaze with you

[@nickablocka8822]

Please continue the series! this is by far the best Minecraft copy I have seen!

[@_iltax4400]

This is gold, keep up the great work!

[@user-id3fc8qs7y]

Microsoft: *This man is too dangerous to keep him alive*

[@LimyChitou]

Try adding LOD to increase the view distance.

[@lemonbread378]

I couldn't believe how much more "Minecraft" it looked with each new addition, the lighting and day/night cycle really did it though (also gotta love the flexing with the coloured and dynamic moving lighting haha) a really cool project to watch unfold, and much respect

[@pt_mrpunk8625]

I love this. Honestly I want to make my own Minecraft style game. This is impressive

[@bhavani9715]

Cool projects bro i ❤these projects keep adding more and more updates to it

[@theotherhive]

honestly i really appreciate this, gonna definitely play a bit with the repo, hope you're doing alright

[@frodobolson213]

I hope you add more things to your minecraft game, and I also hope you will record it and update to youtube so we can watch the result. You have inspired me buddy, great job!!

[@felixklinge5571]

Great work on the time of day feature!

[@oliversampson6833]

Amazing! Looks even better than last time!

[@MuzikBike]

the two things i want most out of vanilla and you nailed it.

[@smiley_1000]

Looks neat and comfy. I like the house.

[@nikki-deprecated]

please keep uploading! this is great content!

[@Roy-K]

It looks a lot like the Alpha and Indev versions - keep up the great work!

[@Seabatt.]

This is very impressive! Your talent has inspired me

[@MeikoKusanagi]

I love this project

[@2dragonfire514]

6:43 - It shouldn't take much to find the correct value for gravity. Since the acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s^2, you could just define how many blocks you want to be a meter (1, 1.5, 0.5, etc.), then set a downwards acceleration of 9.8 times however many seconds the player is off the ground for. Simple. Would also make Newton happy

[@kavishp9399]

i love this guy so much for leaving the music link in the description

[@leandroalfonso3096]

So cool! Please keep going with this!

[@lapidations]

omg right of the bat that fly-by is just beautiful

[@CrazyManDigital]

This really does look like minecraft with another texture you got the look right now for the gameplay

[@gunseekers]

please do more of this, this is amazing and pretty inspiring for a wannabe game dev

[@shawnlee6775]

This man created a remarkable world generation world and Mojang after years haven't been able to nail it yet. Man you are a genius!

[@data676]

I subscribed to you so hard seeing this after the first video, that if the subscribe button were physical, I would've broken it.

[@Pepnewfull]

I really like your video, it's mesmerizing to see * .*

[@JacobVGames]

Awesome work, man!

[@ilikemay0308]

that gameplay at the end gives heavy Minecraft alpha vibes I can't wait to see how this project evolves over time

[@noel.friedrich]

I think the next big thing is gonna be caves. Many suggest using 3d Perlin Noise, but that doesn't work well for caves, actually. You want caves to be traversable, so maybe make a recursive algorithm to generate caves like a snake choosing random directions to go through, then add some height/width variation and noise to make the shapes feel more organic. You could also add custom structures such as mineshafts, cliffs or different types of caves to make it more interesting to explore

[@Break.]

Wow! This really just looks like minecraft with a texture pack!

[@Jack-ht3fr]

The World generation looks amazing and those mountains are epic.

[@TehPwnerer]

I love that, my exp too. This code took a couple of days to write, and it took longer to fix :D

[@alexcupert]

Best programming video i've seen latest month. P.s. PLS MAKE BETTER TEXTURES, BRO! OR USE CUSTOM. IT WILL BE REALLY BETTER

[@micanizerhd4296]

pls continue this series, its very interesting

[@CaspersUniverse]

I'd love for you to grow this project!

[@modestaskaz81]

This could be a great open-source project for a community made minecraft. Features would be implemented way faster than in actual minecraft, never ending updates, quick bug-fixes, etc.

[@quantumdeveloper2733]

@@miyu1424 The linux kernel is open source, and no one deleted it yet. That's because all changes are reviewed by other people before they get merged.

[@no-one3795]

Nice. Hopefully there will be another video about this.

[@tzarkormeister4978]

I actually love ur world gen much more then the actual games world gen