DOOM next?
Minecraft is sort of becoming a creative competitor to DOOM lately, remember Sammyuri's ChatGPT built inside the game? It certainly hasn't been run on that many unusual devices, Nintendo 64 doesn't count, but this time, a developer known as Vimpo has managed to set up a Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb from AliExpress.
Vimpo shared a video showing how it was done, using the lightbulb's BL602 microcontroller. To actually get a Minecraft server running on the limited resources of a smart bulb, the developer built a system called Ucraft. It's extremely compact and lacks most features of the vanilla server.
According to Vimpo, the server's binary is roughly 46 KB without the authentication library and 90 KB with it. Memory usage depends on the number of active players: in the worst-case scenario, with 10 players, heap usage reaches about 70 KB with authentication enabled, or 20 KB without it.
Vimpo
Ucraft is available on GitHub, along with a guide for building the server on a Linux machine.
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