This ‘Minecraft’ Clone Puts Every Game Action On-Chain—Here’s Why

A Minecraft Clone on the Somnia blockchain -test network Lump Place every in-game action on the blockchain of the movement of a player to each placed, mined and manufactured block.

Creator Msquared, a division of Metaverse Tech Builder unlikely, says that this is the first of a number of blockchain experiments while the company is looking to see how far the boundaries of crypto -gaming can push.

Playing the game is a smooth experience, even with all the hooks on the chains, because there is no noticeable delay when placing or mines. That said, some problems can arise when crafting with blocks that temporarily disappear from the inventory of a player. Moreover, the boundaries of the game world are quite small, so that the infinite sandbox experience of the Real Minecraft.

Msquared CEO Rob Whitehead told Decrypt That although it is still in a “technical demo”, the game is designed to be a real web3 game -not just a web2 game with NFTS “on the side”.

Whitehead explained that Chunked has no traditional server that supports it, where everything is supported by the Somnia Testnet. As such, if Msquared decided to stop supporting the game, it would still exist forever at the chain and can be picked up by the community to continue the development.

“All world data of Chunked and So [of its] Logic is on Somnia, so it’s free to be handled with and read from an indefinite period, “said Whitehead.” The logic of Chunked is a series of smart contracts on the chain that are open. The community can use the existing world data on the chain, or use their own contracts and make their own fully separate fork of the world with different rules. “

This is nothing new, he added, pointing to the autonomous Worlds movement that tried to put gaming worlds on the chain for these exact reasons. Dark bunch is a primary example of this in the game, as a space exploration game that places and benefits from everything in the chain Zero knowledge certificates To keep mystery.

The upcoming Eve frontier of CCP Games-a survival-oriented spin-off of Eve Online-Zal do almost the same with Ethereum-based architecture.

“The challenges have been chains (especially low-1’s) at the moment, have just not had the raw performance to process large-scale real-time games such as these, where most projects are much simpler games with limited attraction,” said Whitehead.

Recently a crucified road clone on the Megaeth Public TestNet went viral Because any in-game action was taken on the chain. As with Chunked, it could only be dropped off because of a new era of extremely powerful networks that pop up; the Ethereum Mainnet would certainly not have been on the task.

“At the moment we are walking on TestNet, learning which new types of on-chain games are possible,” said Whitehead. “We would like to see that this is evolving into a persistent voxel world in the main network, which is owned by and has evolved by a community of fellow makers.”

Somnia is expected to be on a mainnet somewhere this year. On this path, Msquared is planning to roll out a series of other experiments in chains, with the most successful tests that ‘full commercial projects’ become as soon as Somnia launches entirely on mainnet.

Published by Andrew Hayward