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Life & fun · March 26, 2020

Peer-to-Peer Minecraft Server

Peer to Peer Minecraft server that connects multiple server instances together - Overview · DuncanUszkay1/Patchwork Wiki

Peer-to-Peer Minecraft Server launched on March 26, 2020 with 5 votes, #1,643 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

Patchwork is a peer-to-peer implementation of a Minecraft server. Unlike Minecraft, maps in Patchwork do not occupy the entire 3D space of the explorable world. Instead, maps are necessarily limited in at least one direction. This allows us to combine multiple "maps" together to form a "patchwork". Here is a very simple Patchwork consisting of two square maps: This separation of maps is what enables us to distribute the load across peers. Each peer owns their own set of Maps, and by combining those maps they control with some that they don't, they form their own Patchwork. This Patchwork is unique to them- each peer could have a different layout of maps. Here's a diagram illustrating this:…from github.com

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