Playing Minecraft at work? Connect Github's Hubot to your server

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30 pointswhatupdave3 comments

What might interest HN readers the most is the (almost) complete implementation of the Minecraft protocol:

* https://github.com/minefold/hubot-minecraft/blob/master/src/... * https://github.com/minefold/hubot-minecraft/blob/master/src/...

If you've ever thought it would be cool to write a bot for Minecraft, this is a great starting point. At Minefold we regularly use our own Minecraft bots to do load testing and diagnosis of our servers.

So for every bot you have to purchase a minecraft license to get a dedicated user+password?

Do you risk to get the user/bot banned by Mojang? usage violation etc?

If you run your server in offline mode it won't validate the username with Mojang and you can add any number of bots. Just add this to your server.properties file: online-mode=false

I doubt Mojang have any sort of anti-bot policies. Individual servers can ban users though. But hopefully people are writing bots for fun and not war right? ;)

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