🔩 Next-Gen Minecraft Mod Loader

Built with the speed and safety of Rust

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🎯 What is Ferrox-Rs?

Ferrox-Rs is a revolutionary Minecraft mod loader that brings the power of Rust to Minecraft modding. We're building the future of Minecraft modifications with:

🚀 Performance	🛡️ Safety	⚡ Modern
Blazingly fast mod loading	Memory-safe by design	WebAssembly powered
Async operations with Tokio	No null pointer exceptions	Modern Rust toolchain
Zero-cost abstractions	Compile-time guarantees	Future-proof architecture

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✨ Features

🦀 Why Rust? Blazingly Fast - Zero-cost abstractions and compiled performance Memory Safe - No segfaults, no data races Fearless Concurrency - Async runtime with Tokio Modern Tooling - Cargo, rustfmt, clippy

🎮 Why Ferrox? WebAssembly Mods - Portable and sandboxed Rich API - Event system, registries, and more Easy Development - Simple mod creation workflow Compatible - Works alongside existing mods

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📊 Development Progress

Core Infrastructure

Mod API

Graphics & UI

📋 Detailed Roadmap (Click to expand)

✅ Core Infrastructure

Feature	Status	Description
JNI Bridge	✅	Stable communication between Java and Rust
Async Runtime (Tokio)	✅	Non-blocking operations for game thread
WASM Mod Loading	✅	Load and instantiate WebAssembly mods

🚧 Mod API

Feature	Status	Description
Event System	✅	Register handlers for game events
Registry API	✅	Register blocks and items from mods
World & Entity API	🚧	API defined, game integration in progress
Interaction API	📝	Planned (Inventory, Commands, Chat)
Crafting API	📝	Planned (Crafting tables, furnaces, etc.)
Graphics API (GUI)	📝	Planned (Custom menus, HUD)
Network API	📝	Planned (Custom network packets)

Legend: ✅ Complete | 🚧 In Progress | 📝 Planned

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🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

🦀 Rust Toolchain # Install Rust curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh # Add WASM target rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

☕ Minecraft Working Minecraft installation Fabric or Forge loader installed

📦 Bootstrapper Java mod to load Ferrox Contains FerroxBridge.java Place in mods/ folder

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🎯 Installation Options

Method	Best For	Difficulty
🤖 Automated Scripts	First-time users	⭐ Easy
📦 Pre-built Release	Quick setup	⭐⭐ Medium
🔧 Manual Build	Advanced users	⭐⭐⭐ Hard

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🤖 Automated Installation (Recommended)

Our interactive scripts handle everything for you:

🐧 Linux / 🍎 macOS # Make executable (if needed) chmod +x run.sh # Run installer ./run.sh Features: ✅ Compiles native library ✅ Builds WASM mods ✅ Auto-detects Minecraft path ✅ Creates necessary directories ✅ Copies files to correct locations

🪟 Windows .\run.bat Features: ✅ Interactive prompts ✅ Custom mod paths ✅ Confirmation at each step ✅ Error handling ✅ Default path detection

📋 What the script does (Click to expand)

1. Compiles Ferrox Core - Builds the native library in release mode
2. Compiles Example Mod - Builds the WASM example mod
3. Detects Minecraft Directory - Finds your .minecraft folder
4. Creates Folders - Sets up ferrox/bin and ferrox/mods
5. Copies Files - Places everything in the right location
6. Confirmation - Asks before performing critical operations

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📦 Quick Install (Pre-built Releases)

For specific Minecraft versions, use our automated installers:

🐧 Linux / 🍎 macOS # Specify your MC version ./run.sh # Follow prompts: # - Minecraft version (e.g., 1.21.5) # - .minecraft path (optional)

🪟 Windows .\run.bat # Follow prompts: # - Minecraft version # - Custom path (optional)

What it does:

• Downloads the bootstrapper JAR for your MC version
• Copies native library to ferrox/bin/
• Sets up mod directories
• Installs everything automatically

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🔧 Manual Installation

For advanced users who want full control (Click to expand)

1. Clone and Build

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/CompileRIder/ferrox-rs.git
cd ferrox-rs

# Build core library
cargo build --release

# Build example mod
cargo build -p example-mod --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release

2. Locate Files

Platform	Native Library	Location
🐧 Linux	libferrox.so	target/release/
🍎 macOS	libferrox.dylib	target/release/
🪟 Windows	ferrox.dll	target\release\

WASM Mod: target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/example_mod.wasm

3. Create Directory Structure

# In your .minecraft folder:
.minecraft/
├── mods/
│   └── ferrox-bootstrapper-{version}.jar  # From releases
└── ferrox/
    ├── bin/
    │   └── libferrox.so (or .dylib/.dll)
    └── mods/
        └── example_mod.wasm

4. Copy Files

Linux/macOS:

cp target/release/libferrox.* ~/.minecraft/ferrox/bin/
cp target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/*.wasm ~/.minecraft/ferrox/mods/

Windows:

copy target\release\ferrox.dll %APPDATA%\.minecraft\ferrox\bin\
copy target\wasm32-unknown-unknown\release\*.wasm %APPDATA%\.minecraft\ferrox\mods\

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🎮 Launch Minecraft

1. Start Minecraft with Fabric/Forge
2. The bootstrapper will load Ferrox
3. Ferrox will load your WASM mods
4. Check logs for confirmation

[Ferrox] Loading native library...
[Ferrox] Initializing WASM runtime...
[Ferrox] Loading mods from ferrox/mods/...
[Ferrox] ✅ Loaded: example_mod.wasm
[Ferrox] 🦀 Ferrox-Rs ready!

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📖 Detailed Guides

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🧑‍💻 Creating Your First Mod

use ferrox_api::prelude::*;

#[event_handler]
pub fn on_player_join(event: PlayerJoinEvent) {
    event.player().send_message("Welcome to Ferrox-Rs! 🦀");
}

#[_start]
pub fn init() {
    register_item("my_mod:cool_sword", ItemProperties {
        damage: 10,
        durability: 500,
    });
}

📚 Development Workflow

graph LR
    A[Create Rust Project] --> B[Add ferrox-api]
    B --> C[Write Mod Logic]
    C --> D[Compile to WASM]
    D --> E[Install with Script]
    E --> F[Launch Minecraft]

    style A fill:#E56F25
    style F fill:#00ff00

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🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│         Minecraft (Java)            │
│  ┌──────────────────────────────┐   │
│  │      Ferrox Core (Rust)      │   │
│  │  ┌────────────────────────┐  │   │
│  │  │   WASM Runtime         │  │   │
│  │  │  ┌──────────────────┐  │  │   │
│  │  │  │  Your Mod (WASM) │  │  │   │
│  │  │  └──────────────────┘  │  │   │
│  │  └────────────────────────┘  │   │
│  └──────────────────────────────┘   │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Here's how you can help:

🐛 Report Bugs	✨ Request Features	🔧 Submit PRs	📖 Improve Docs
Open Issue	Discussions	Pull Requests	Wiki

Development Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/CompileRIder/ferrox-rs.git
cd ferrox-rs

# Add WASM target
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

# Build the project
cargo build --release

# Build example mod
cargo build -p example-mod --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release

# Run tests
cargo test

# Check code quality
cargo clippy
cargo fmt --check

Using Gradle

The project also uses Gradle for the Java bootstrapper:

# Unix/Linux/macOS
./gradlew build

# Windows
.\gradlew.bat build

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📦 Project Structure

ferrox-rs/
├── 🦀 developing/          # Core development (WIP)
├── 🎮 example-mod/         # Example WASM mod
├── 🔌 ferrox-api/          # Mod API for developers
├── 🔧 ferrox-macros/       # Procedural macros
├── 📦 gradle/wrapper/      # Gradle build system
├── 🌐 src/                 # Core Rust source
├── 📜 build.gradle         # Gradle configuration
├── 🔨 gradlew              # Gradle wrapper (Unix)
├── 🔨 gradlew.bat          # Gradle wrapper (Windows)
├── 🚀 run.sh               # Interactive installer (Unix)
├── 🚀 run.bat              # Interactive installer (Windows)
├── 📦 run.sh           # Quick installer (Unix)
├── 📦 run.bat          # Quick installer (Windows)
└── 📝 README.md            # You are here!

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📈 Performance

Metric	Ferrox-Rs	Traditional Loaders
Startup Time	⚡ ~2s	🐌 ~8s
Memory Usage	💚 ~50MB	🟡 ~200MB
Mod Loading	🚀 Async	⏳ Sync
Safety	🛡️ Memory Safe	⚠️ Unsafe

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🌟 Community

Join our growing community of developers and modders:

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📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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💖 Support

If you like Ferrox-Rs, consider supporting the project:

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🙏 Acknowledgments

Built with ❤️ using:

• Rust - The programming language
• Tokio - Async runtime
• Wasmer - WebAssembly runtime
• JNI-RS - Java Native Interface

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Made with 🦀 and ☕ by the Ferrox-Rs team