Playing Minecraft through Discord!
Important
This project is almost finished. I just need the determination to wire up the last bits and debug the tricky bugs.
I wondered: would it be possible to play Minecraft through Discord? That would require some knowledge of asynchronous programming, wouldn't it? And it is quite funny, isn't it?
I first tried to implement it in C++. I hit problems at the very end when I tried to mix Asio, asynchronous programming, class inheritance, and multithreading. I had written absolute spaghetti code riddled with memory leaks.
Below is a diagram explaining how the components interact with one another.
APP is the program.
Note: Each side of the app (client and server) controls one Discord bot.
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Listen for TCP packets coming from the Minecraft client.
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Convert TCP packets into text suitable for Discord.
- Send the text to Discord.
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Listen for Discord messages.
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Parse the Discord messages into bytes.
- Send the bytes through the socket to the Minecraft client.
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The only difference between the client side and the server side is the order of events. On the server side, we first listen for a Discord message. On the client side, we first wait for the Minecraft server to connect.