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Minecraft 4K (Java)

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Minecraft 4K is a decently obscure game within the Minecraft brand made for Java 4K, a programming contest by the Java Game Programming community. The goal was to make a game using less than 4 KB. This game ended up being just 2 KB in size.

Download Minecraft 4K (+Launcher)

File: Minecraft_4K.zip (25.79 KB) (info)

Download Minecraft 4K

File: Minecraft_4K_Raw.zip (5 KB) (info)

Unused Block IDs#

There are 16 block IDs in the game. The remaining seven unused block IDs are simply dirt blocks.

  • [0] Air
  • [1] Grass
  • [2] Dirt
  • [3] Dirt
  • [4] Stone
  • [5] Bricks
  • [6] Dirt
  • [7] Wood
  • [8] Leaves
  • [9] Dirt (Unused)
  • [10] Dirt (Unused)
  • [11] Dirt (Unused)
  • [12] Dirt (Unused)
  • [13] Dirt (Unused)
  • [14] Dirt (Unused)
  • [15] Dirt (Unused)

Trivia#

  • The game has a set seed in the code for generating the world that is always set to the long value 18295169.

References#


  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120307024236/http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=21638.msg177324#msg177324↩︎
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20120307024236/http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=21638.msg177324#msg177324↩︎
  3. https://minecraft.wiki/w/Minecraft_4k↩︎