Minerva is a ground-up modernization of Minecraft 1.8.9, powered by a fully custom Vulkan rendering backend.
Minerva replaces the traditional OpenGL renderer with a Vulkan-based backend designed for:
- Explicit GPU control
- Modern rendering techniques
- High-performance batching and draw submission
- Clean pipeline abstraction and extensibility
These instructions assume that you've cloned this repository or obtained a copy of it through other means.
To directly run Minerva through Gradle: .\gradlew :minecraft:run
To package Minerva: .\gradlew :minecraft:distZip
Minerva integrates terrain rendering technology from CaffeineMC’s Sodium.
Sodium is licensed under Polyform Shield 1.0.0, authored by JellySquid.
If you appreciate high-performance Minecraft rendering, please consider supporting their work.
Minerva is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with:
- Microsoft
- Mojang Studios
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