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Note that blocks with multiple states, orientations, or interactive blocks require large amounts of specialized code to make them behave properly, which is way beyond the scope of this project. Some are supported, however:
CobolCraft was developed using GnuCOBOL and is meant to be run on Linux. Support for other operating systems such as Windows has not been tested. However, it is possible to use Docker for a platform-independent deployment.
Note: By default, the server is only accessible via localhost (i.e., only on your own system via localhost:25565). To make it accessible from the outside (your local network, via VPN, port forwarding, on a rented server, ...), you can start the Docker container like this:
Well, there are quite a lot of rumors and stigma surrounding COBOL. This intrigued me to find out more about this language, which is best done with some sort of project, in my opinion. You heard right - I had no prior COBOL experience going into this.
Writing a Minecraft server was perhaps not the best idea for a first COBOL project, since COBOL is intended for business applications, not low-level data manipulation (bits and bytes) which the Minecraft protocol needs lots of. However, quitting before having a working prototype was not on the table! A lot of this functionality had to be implemented completely from scratch, but with some clever programming, data encoding and decoding is not just fully working, but also quite performant.
