You think you've seen it all and then there's a Wayland Compositor inside Minecraft on Linux
A developer going by "EVVIE" managed to combine the worlds of Linux and Minecraft, to enable you to pull up all sorts of Linux desktop windows directly inside Minecraft. Sure does look cool, a bit like running a desktop inside a VR headset like the draft code for the full VR mode for KDE Plasma written about here before on GamingOnLinux.
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"do you use KDE or Gnome?"
"Minecraft"
"I use minecraft, btw" was in the comments of the demo video. Had a giggle.
if a creeper blows up and kills me while using it, does it crash all my running programs?
Usually no but for you specifically it does
Steve Panic!
Please respawn your Steve
Fatal exception in interrupt
"...And then I hit my wood 6 times on the Filemanager which crashes immediately into pieces."
IT-Support: "You, did what?"
Oh, it's just a mod? I was hoping they built it with redstone. Still very cool, just not as impressive.
I don't think it would be possible to actually have a wayland compositor actually interface with the kernel and programs without some kind of mod
I saw the reddit thread the modder made, they said they ran Minecraft within Minecraft within Minecraft using this. Ingeniously absurd, I'm all for it
inb4 someone does this to end up saying minecraft is the perfect sandboxing program there is.
That’s good but, can it run DOOM ?
yes.
There's it is.
Aaaah the famous CPU built inside Minecraft 😊
I'm sure it can though someone should try to play Morrowind inside Fallout 4's Pipboy too.
They built Zuck's metaverse but made it more fun and without burning billions of dollars.
And characters come with legs by default.
Put VR on and there you go:
Doesn't have multiplayer support? Throw it away and make an X11 implementation instead. (/s)
Gives "now go to the file manager" a whole new meaning.
Ssh into the Minecraft server from inside the Minecraft server
I...I really kind of want this now. Like an honest to bob, turn the comp on and load in to MC running this. I want to walk to browser icon. I want to build a house besides my file explorer. To have a "physical" 3d location for everything in the world and being able to visit your photos, or fly by your games library. Super cool!
That actually sounds amazing. I want that so much.
Like the Futurama episodes when they go into the internet
Can I craft this in survival?
I think is some kind of mod
Damn, finally a good demo of what I suggested around 2010 for monitoring multiple displays in 3D - instead of moving 2D windows around all the time and forgetting which part of the screen you put them...
Steam Frame just destroyed Apple Vision Pro
That's actually kind of insane