flying-squid

Create Minecraft servers with a powerful, stable, and high level JavaScript API.

Features

• Support for Minecraft 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15 and 1.16
• Players can see the world
• Players see each other in-game and in tab
• Digging
• Placing blocks
• Player movement
• World generation
• Anvil loading
• Multi-world

Building / Running

Before running or building it is recommended that you configure the server in config/settings.json

npm install
node app.js

You can also install flying-squid globally with sudo npm install -g flying-squid and then run it with flying-squid command.

Docker

Docker allows for a higher level of isolation, compatibility and consistency. You can learn how to install Docker here.

Quick start a simple server to test out flying-squid:

docker run -p 25565:25565 prismarinejs/flying-squid

With specific configuration and a container name:

docker run -p 25565:25565 -v $(pwd)/config:/config --name my-flying-squid prismarinejs/flying-squid

docker-compose is useful to quickly launch & stop a single container with a specific configuration.

docker-compose.yaml:

version: '3.8'

services:
  flying-squid:
    image: prismarinejs/flying-squid
    volumes:
       - ${PWD}/config:/config
    ports:
      - "25565:25565"
volumes:
  flying-squid:

docker-compose -f path/to/docker-compose.yaml up

Or do it all locally:

docker build -t local-flying-squid .
docker run -p 25565:25565 local-flying-squid

or

docker-compose up

World generation

There are several modules than can be used to generate the world. The default one is called diamond-square

• node-voxel-worldgen: a voxel world generator written in Rust, compatible with flying-squid and allows basic minecraft-like generation including caves.
• diamond-square: a diamond square minecraft generation.
• superflat: a superflat worldgen with configurable blocks and biome.

To install a world generation, all you have to do is npm install it and then change the generation option in settings.json.

Plugins

• flying-squid-irc a bridge between a irc chan and the minecraft server. Currently used between our test server (rom1504.fr) and our gitter room (through the official gitter irc bridge)
• flying-squid-schematic Flying-squid plugin providing /listSchemas and /loadSchema commands. You can add schema through a simple http api and then add them in your world by just calling /loadSchema in game.
• flying-squid-essentials Plugin that in a future will be like Essentials of bukkit/spigot. All the basic commands that a server should have
• squidcord a bridge between a discord channel and the minecraft server.
• authme an auth plugin for online-mode=false servers.

Documentation

For development see the API documentation, CONTRIBUTE.md and HISTORY.md

Using as a lib

flying-squid is also a server lib. Here is a basic example of usage:

const mcServer = require('flying-squid')

mcServer.createMCServer({
  'motd': 'A Minecraft Server \nRunning flying-squid',
  'port': 25565,
  'max-players': 10,
  'online-mode': true,
  'logging': true,
  'gameMode': 1,
  'difficulty': 1,
  'worldFolder': 'world',
  'generation': {
    'name': 'diamond_square',
    'options': {
      'worldHeight': 80
    }
  },
  'kickTimeout': 10000,
  'plugins': {

  },
  'modpe': false,
  'view-distance': 10,
  'player-list-text': {
    'header': 'Flying squid',
    'footer': 'Test server'
  },
  'everybody-op': true,
  'max-entities': 100,
  'version': '1.16.5'
})

You can add server plugins and player plugins in your package, following CONTRIBUTE.md.

For further examples, see the examples page.

Contributors

• @mhsjlw creator of flying-squid
• @roblabla for helping out with the protocols
• @rom1504 for massive contributions to the code
• @demipixel
• The PrismarineJS team for creating prismarine-chunk and node-minecraft-protocol
• wiki.vg for documenting minecraft protocols
• All of our other awesome contributors!