glowstone 🌟

glowstone allows other people to join your localhost games 🎢

if you're familiar with services like https://aternos.org/ you know that queues can get ridicolous

with glowstone you can just host your own server and let other people join it via glowstone proxy/tcp mux

for now you have to host the proxy yourself, but even smallest vm will suffice which is not true for mc servers

Try it yourself

Client, this app should be deployed on the same machine as your minecraft server

m := glowstone.NewMux()

//Tries to connect with the other mux on port 8000
if err := m.Dial(":8000"); err != nil {
  log.Fatal(err.Error())
}

//When connection is successfull, we can start receiving packets
if err := m.Recv(); err != nil {
  log.Fatal(err.Error())
}

Server, this usually sits somewhere in the clould or on any other machine exposed to external internet traffic

m := glowstone.NewMux()

//Listens for other mux to connect, 
if err := m.ListenMux(":8000"); err != nil {
  log.Fatal(err.Error())
}
//Listens for other players to connect, after that it handles each connection and forwards it to your minecraft server
if err := m.Listen(":9000"); err != nil {
  log.Fatal(err.Error())
}

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