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24 alternatives to Hyperion – 10k Player Minecraft PvP Battle Written in Rust

Hello HN :) For the last seven months, I've been working on building a highly performant Minecraft event server to break the PvP world record set by EVE Online (8825 players). We will have a proof-of-concept event in December and likely break the world record in January. Many of the largest streamers & YouTubers are interested, so we do not believe getting players will be challenging. I would love to talk if you think you could help us with the goal of getting this record :)

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hyperion – 10k Player Minecraft PvP Battle Written in Rust launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hi HN! Thanks for your attention to my post. It was a big challenge to run most of Node.js packages in browser, fast moreover. Virtual File system, resolve import/export. I got cold many times, depressions, burned out, yet still alive and finished it. Many guys helped me with an advice. Many users give a lot of positive feedback. There are 200,000 monthly unique users. I work full time now because of the freemium business model. To be honest - I am happy after many years of hard work.

    2022 · playcode.io · its alternatives →

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    Minecraft server discovery, analytics, & spoof detection.

    16d ago · newminecraftservers.net · its alternatives →

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    Been having a lot of fun reading an SC2Replay collection through nom parsers, serializing into Arrow files so that pola.rs can read them and perform data analysis with jupyter lab, plotly or interact with SQL operations, etc. Looking for feedback and ideas on what to progress on. For example, "through history, are my timings getting better?". etc. Also would love to have ideas on what libraries to use to perform forecasting.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4AO

    I made a game (https://polyfight.io/) which revolves around a player (a tank) leveling up and upgrading by killing shapes and other tanks (partially inspired by https://diep.io). It has a bunch of features, a vast number of tanks, an inbuilt chatting system, clans to make teams with your friends, a colour scheme maker, controllable sandboxes which can be public or private, a last man standing gamemode, and an inbuilt 1v1 system with its own ELO rankings and a global leaderboard. The game has a few players right now, and I'd hope to spread the joy players have with…

    2024 · polyfight.io · its alternatives →

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    The domain name www.io is being parked on Park.io. Contact the domain owner to make an offer right now...

    2013 · redstone.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! For several months now I've been stuck on the idea of a Minesweeper game that isn't just single player. This is what I came up with: • Live games allowing several people to play at the same time • Scoring system rewarding correct moves • Grid size, mines count, and players count set to make games as balanced as possible

    2025 · minesweeperpro.com · its alternatives →

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    Open PvP and cutthroat trade - A world of chaos

    2015 · its alternatives →

  8. 8AF

    Hey HN! I have been working on this project for a while, and I think this solves a problem that a lot of people here have: not being able to easily search Discord servers. Currently, I only scrape servers that are marked as "discoverable" on Discord. However, if there's enough interest in the project, I'm open to adding specific servers by request. I'm primarily focused on informational servers rather than casual hangout spaces, such as open source projects, Minecraft mods, and support communities for tools, services, or platforms (for example, hosting providers). I have placed restrictions…

    2025 · searchcord.io · its alternatives →

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    A platform for developers interested in code optimizations

    2024 · highload.fun · its alternatives →

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    This experiment has ended. Thanks for being part of it!

    2015 · verizoncraft.github.io · its alternatives →

  11. 11MF

    I know everyone is a bit burned out on blockchain and cryptocurrency related stuff around these parts, but I've been working on as a side project for the last few months and thought you guys might be interested: https://cryptoempire.io/ It's still a bit buggy and incomplete (the mobile ux needs a lot of work, the leaderboard isn't functional yet, etc.), but I've reached a point where I'm not totally ashamed of sharing it :) Any feedback would be most welcome!

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    The fair, anti-P2W multiplayer & Minecraft server list

    Aug 2026 · voxelrank.com · its alternatives →

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    Minecraft Server Analytics

    2017 · statscraft.net · its alternatives →

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    hey hn, here a game I always wanted to make. Every player defends one wall of a polygon, eight players, eight sides. When you lose your wall shatters and the arena closes the gap, so the shape keeps shrinking. Dying doesn't put you in a spectator seat. You come back as a saboteur, dropping bumpers, gravity wells and spinner bars on whoever's still alive. It's usually the part people like more than playing. It went around Reddit last week — about 30k plays so far, up to 80 simultaneous plays. Hopefully it survives HN! - This link starts a room for you and whoever you share it with:…

    Aug 2026 · antics.gg · its alternatives →

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    Over the past few months, as we scaled our internal AI Agents, we hit a dead end: Running LLM-generated arbitrary code in Docker is basically running naked on security due to container escape risks. But using full traditional VMs takes minutes to boot and eats too much memory to support high-density concurrency. We loved the developer experience of SaaS sandboxes on the market, but they are closed-source, expensive, and have too high a barrier to entry for self-hosting. So, our team decided to build our own. After months of grinding, using RustVMM and KVM, we built a blazing-fast,…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This weekend I built a Minecraft bot for a server I play on. It uses the Agent SDK for the main loop and a bunch of custom MCP tools. Some highlights: * The bot is an active participant in the in-game chat, enabling all players to interact with it. * Tools for interacting with containers, crafting, trading with villagers and various other things. * Memory system which the agent uses to keep track of in-game events, interactions with players etc. * Screenshot tool which lets Claude use its vision modality to look around (not very useful, but fun). * Tooling for interacting with plugins…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, over the past few months I've been working on this project: Numax is a small Rust runtime that does three things: it runs WebAssembly modules in a sandbox, has a built-in local key-value store, and syncs everything across nodes with CRDTs and gossip. Basically, you write a wasm module, run it on two machines, and they converge (I hope !). It's a decentralized system... I hope someone finds it interesting! There's a whitepaper I've put a lot into, and I think the code isn't bad either! I believe there's still room in this world for software that's fun and well made, and while building…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A truthful Minecraft server list without botted analytics.

    Jun 2026 · minecraftservers-list.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello guys, I'm glad to present to you PlayAlgoShip, a web-based game where you solve fun algorithmic puzzles. The rules are simple, you need to find the correct algorithm that makes the ship collect all stars. If you succeed, you will unlock the next level! There are also live statistics like how many players are currently playing on your current level (you are not alone struggling!), the finish rate of the level, and how many players liked/disliked it. It's 100% free, I hope you will enjoy the experience!

    2024 · playalgoship.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20IT

    I added Co-op online to Lazy Blocks. Using PeerJS & WebRTC, so no server. Hope you enjoy, let me know if you have and feedback, etc. Thank you, Adam -- EDIT Oh! -- Click the "Globe" icon to start online play -- Edit 2 Oh! -- I should mention - the board is infinite, you can scroll and pan and zoom in all directions -- and you can always find the other player with one click

    2025 · lazyblocks.xyz · its alternatives →

  21. 21WJ

    This hobby project was created using stolen code from deno tbh. Also I have submitted my framework to TechEmpower benchmarks and other bench marks. I'm attaching the framework score for your reference. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=2...

    Oct 2025 · shyam20001.github.io · its alternatives →

  22. 22IB

    Hey, A bit of context.. So I think last week was my last straw, I hit 8k hours with dota and holy ** It finally hit me how much time I wasted on that game. I'm a software developer, I always wanted to develop something and put it out but was scared shitless to do so, I was kinda afraid to get bad traction, to fail or even worse to be completely ignored. so I decided to address two of these issues at once, stop playing dota and spend the weekend building a website that let you see what you could've done with your gaming hours. As an avid gamer for the last 20+ years, I know that it's only…

    Apr 2026 · alternatelife.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Compete in an AI/bot Minecraft tournament! $1900 in prizes!

    2023 · regression.gg · its alternatives →

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    This server started a few weeks ago via some HN comments. It's very unofficial! There'll probably be some negative comments about discord. I know that many people dislike discord. (Side note: I hope more founders build discord alternatives) If you're active on discord and would like a HN channel, feel free to join. The server has the same guidelines as HN: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic:…

    2023 · discord.com · its alternatives →

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