Charged Miners

is a client for Minecraft Classic, it features: smooth graphics; realistic shadows; a in-game server list; automatic updating via a launcher; support for both modern and classic terrain textures. It is still does not have all the features of the old client but is fully usable.

You can find help here.

Launcher Update 1.23

Charged-Miners Launcher has been updated several times this month. Launcher cannot update itself, so please re-download it at your leisure. Changes since version 1.2:

• Fixed log uploading.
• Shortened the timeout for launcher update requests.
• Fixed “Always” and “Never” game update preference getting mixed up.
• Added warning when unchecking “Multiple accounts”.
• Unchecking “Multiple accounts” now actually erases account info right away, from disk and memory. Before, it waited until launcher closed.

Charged Miners Changelog

Launcher Update (you need it!)

Thanks to GitHub.com breaking the download feature on their homepage that we used to host the game updates, you will need to redownload the launcher to receive any future game updates.

Not everything is bad news though: thanks to hard work by Scoot, the Launcher also has a few new features and improvements:

• Launcher can now remember multiple accounts (check the “Options” tab).
• Your passwords are stored in a safer, encrypted way.
• “Safe mode” checkbox was moved to the “Options” tab.
• Some bugfixes and cosmetic improvements.

You will need to redownload the launcher from the link at the top of the page to get them. Again thanks to Scoot for working on the Launcher.

Weekend update 7

Again we need to thank Scoot for his continuing amizing work on the Launcher. Which just now moved to the Charged organization under github. A lot of work has been put into behind the scene changes to make the Charge game engine a lot better and nicer to work with.

But what about the fun stuff you say? Well player physics has been added, that seems to be quite close to how Minecraft Classic works, with the exception of water/lave physics not being there yet. Also the fog/background is no longer just a solid blue wall, its a completely nested scene so anything can be put in it, like mountains off in the distance.

Currently the help page is a bit lacking, some help would be greatly appreciated, both for Charged Miners and the Launcher. No fancy html knowlage is required as its all written in a the super simple markdown format, see here, you can just checkout the source for this page here.

• Added player physics everything except water/lava should work.
• Add sky and ocean horizon, instead of the boring blue fog.
• Silence warnings in logs that wheren’t warnings.
• Add a proper flying mode thats toggleable with the ‘Z’ button.
• Add doxygen documentation integration.
• Massive refactoring of code for more eventual porting to D2.
• Fix: Really really odd other player movement issues, from net code.
• Fix: Deal better with weird UTF-8 chars in paths.
• Fix: Various fixes for refactoring.
• Fix: Better logging and errors for missing OpenGL features.

Just run the launcher and it will update it automatically!

Launcher Updated

Scoot has done a bunch of work on the launcher, totally rewamping the UI, adding a single button upload of logs (greatly helping debbing issues), and much more… Many thanks Scoot.

• New user interface! Now with tabs.
• Added more options (starting tab, how to install game updates, whether to remember username/password/server).
• Added some tools (resetting settings, clearing all data, opening data directory, submitting logs).
• Allowed more kinds of mc:// URLs. Port number is now optional, and hostnames can be used in place of IPs.
• Made “www.” optional in minecraft.net URLs.
• Made error messages more informative.
• Added logging to %AppData%/charge/launcher.log.

You will need to download the launcher from the link at the top of the page.

Weekend update 6

Its been a while and a lot of changes gone into Charged Miners. The default skin now works, you can replace it just like with the background, see help for how to do that.

Also like to thank Scoot, for his work on the Launcher, especially now that mc.net seems to be having so much troubles.

• Added support for “resuming” a connection to a server.
• Remember the server hash instead of the server name for the list.
• OtherPlayer movement much more smoother (Thanks Allie).
• Download default player skin if not found.
• Added a error message when the graphics card can’t support Charged Miners.
• Tweek player speeds to be more like classic.
• Fix: Connect to correct mc.net address.
• Fix: More chunk building fixes.
• Fix: Spelling (Thanks Allie).
• Fix: More logging of errors.
• Fix: Halfslabs bottom not being drawn when halfslab beneath.
• Fix: Fix certain skins causing segfaults.
• Fix: Options lost on startup eroor.
• Fix: Fix mouse grab moving the view.
• Fix: Hide player name tags when hidden.
• Fix: Disallow placement of admin-crate when not admin.
• Fix: Fixes in the forward renderer.

Just run the launcher and it will update it automatically!

Repo moved

I moved the main repository for Charged Miners to be under the Charged orginazation instead of under my private github account. Due to this and the fact that Mojang broke the www subdomain of minecraft.net you will need to re-download the launcher again.

Sorry no auto-update, you will need to re-download the launcher. Get help here.

Weekend update 5

Did lots and lots of code clean up and preperation for possible porting to D2. Other then that fixed two bugs. And added a failsafe mode, active it by setting the option mc.failsafe to true in settings.ini, see help for where to locate it.

• Added logging when saving the screenshot.
• Added failsafe mode to use safer graphics rendering.
• Fix: Water no longer dissapears when in it.
• Fix: Validate fov, invalid values caused rendering issues.

Just run the launcher and it will update it automatically! Get help here.

Weekend update 4

Fixed some fallout from the move to the new startup code. Made the game a lot more targeted at only classic by hiding the old main menu when launched from the launcher. Made it a tiny bit more closer to vanilla classic, and also added paste support to the chat.

• You can now part back to the server list from the pause menu.
• Canceling server connect and map change now loads the server list menu.
• You can now resize the window by default (Windows only).
• Water and Lava are not selectable (still placable).
• You can now past into chat with ctrl+v (Windows only).
• Fix: Crash on startup.
• Fix: Custom Classic terrain not loading.
• Fix: Logo not displaying at startup.

Just run the launcher and it will update it automatically! Get help here.

Weekend update 3

The big change this weekend is closer to classic behaviour on various things, and that the menu background is custamizable. You can change it by placing background.png and background.tiled.png in the texture folder, see help for how it can be found.

• Backgrounds are now custamizable.
• Follow classic slot bar behavour.
• Improved error messages a tiny bit.
• Repeat block remove and place when holding mouse button.
• Fix: Light and camera move when window not grabbed.
• Fix: Ungrab happens on key up instead of key down.

Just run the launcher and it will update it automatically!

Weekend update 2

Trying to do one of these every weekend.

• Added help page on the homepage.
• Added support for classic terrain.png (help on using it).
• Added a button on the options screen to open the texture folder.
• Brought back debug info overlay (can be toggled with F3).
• Fix: On non-uniformly sized maps top and bottom chunks would go missing.
• Fix: With low FPS the idle function causes the cpu to spin.
• Fix: Windows Intel GPU’s showing white terrain.
• Fix: Toughen up the code in some places.

Just run the launcher and it will update it automatically!

Weekend update 1

So while this isn’t the first weekend update that I have made its the first that I document on the new page. Finishing the move to the new organization on github and more work on this page is what I think I’ll do the next weekend. But now on to the changes:

• Added fov option.
• Chunks closer to the player is now generated first.
• Started code reorg needed for texture pack support and classic textures.
• Fix: On small maps the mesh builder would not build the last row of blocks.
• Fix: Options menu dubplicated when changing fullscreen mode.
• Fix: Stop moving when starting to chat or opening menu.
• Fix: If AA is not supported make sure that you can’t turn it on.

Just run the launcher and it should update automatically! Also Curiosity on Mars!

Webpage is up

And thats all there is to that.