BlockBuilder

By Sean Cunneen

BlockBuilder is a simple Minecraft clone, which allows you to build basic structures with blocks.

Running BlockBuilder

At present, BlockBuilder only supports 64 bit Windows machines. To run the program, simply download the archive download-windows.zip, which contains the program and the auxilliary files (textures and DLLs) that it needs to run, extract and open it, enter the program folder, and launch BlockBuilder.exe.

Controls:

• Camera
  • The mouse rotates the camera
  • The W A S D keys move the camera forward, left, right, and back
  • The space and left shift keys move the camera up and down
• Hotbar
  • The hotbar holds 8 types of blocks. At the beginning of the game it is empty.
  • To select a spot in the hotbar, use the number keys 1-8
• Menu
  • The menu allows you to put blocks in the hotbar
  • To enter or exit the menu, press E
  • The selected block in the menu is highlighted in blue. To change which block is selected, use the arrow keys
  • To put the selected block in the selected spot in the hotbar, press ENTER
• Placing/Removing Blocks
  • You choose a location at which to place or remove a block by looking at it with the camera.
  • The blue cursor block appears to show you where a block will be placed or removed
  • To place the type of block that is selected in the hotbar, left click
  • To remove a block from behind the cursor block, right click
• Exiting
  • To leave the game, press ESCAPE. Your work will automatically be saved.

Recent Changes

• The program now saves the world to a file so you can pick up where you left off
• You rotate the camera and place blocks using the mouse instead of using the keyboard
• Instead of using official Minecraft textures, it uses textures from the open source PixelPerfectionCE texture pack
• There is an on-screen menu to select blocks
• There are more types of blocks
• It supports transparent blocks (glass + several colors of stained glass)
• It supports blocks with different images on different faces-- sandstone, crafting table, and furnace

Citations

The program uses the GLFW graphics library, the GLAD driver library, and the stb_image library. It uses textures from the PixelPerfectionCE texture pack