As the Minecraft movie draws thousands to Mojang’s timeless sandbox, a groundbreaking mod redefines the game’s multiplayer limits.
Minecraft’s vast worlds typically support only a handful of players in vanilla mode. But what if you could share your ultimate build with tens of thousands or raid the Nether with an army of builders? A new mod in development makes this possible by revolutionizing multiplayer in Mojang’s iconic game, allowing up to 100,000 players to coexist in a single world.
Minecraft mods range from subtle tweaks to game-changing overhauls, introducing new enemies, biomes, or campaigns. This mod, developed by Meta Gravity, stands above them all. It leverages Quark, a network engine that scales multiplayer games by distributing computing tasks across servers and client devices. In Minecraft, this enables massive shared worlds hosting 100,000 players simultaneously.
“Minecraft traditionally processes everything server-side, from movement to chunk generation,” says Meta Gravity’s senior software engineer Mihail Makei. “We rewrote the networking layer to shift simulations to clients, so every player contributes computing power to the world.”
To test the mod, Meta Gravity used a bot network to simulate 100,000 players in one world. The latest prototype supports 5,000 visible, active players on-screen at once, with frame rates varying between 20 and 60fps. Core mechanics like movement, combat, digging, block placement, and crafting remain functional even at this scale.
Meta Gravity plans to release the mod for free, with added support for NPCs, weather, terrain growth, moderation, and anti-cheat systems. Public playtests are also in the works.
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