MineForager

First playable prototype of Forager in Minecraft Java 1.21.1, using Fabric. Requires an account that owns Minecraft Java and an installed copy of Forager for Windows. The creator's GOG copy was tested. Sprites and animations are read from the player's installation into memory; game files aren't copied or distributed.

What You Can Play

• Press V to switch individually between Steve and the animated Forager character. Everyone can see each other's choice. Steve keeps his native appearance; Forager uses sprites in every perspective.
• Press C to switch between first-person and an 80° overhead camera for the Forager character. The overhead view frees the mouse and lets you move across the screen, mine, and build with the pointer, using Minecraft's native range and validation.
• Equipped items are visible with animations. Forager and Minecraft items have separate scales. The character image moves away from nearby collisions to reduce clipping against walls; obstacles that hide the character's head can still obscure them.
• Automatic pickup within seven blocks, item pickup notifications, XP, levels, and skill points.
• Four starting skills: Industry lets you fuel furnaces with an adjacent block of coal; Agriculture helps crops; Economy grants 40 coins; Magic enables the mining Droid.
• Topaz, Amethyst, Ruby, and Forager Emerald; resource nodes in caves; nodes regenerate away from builds; three progressively better pickaxes, keys, and a craftable Droid.
• A Droid that orbits, mines, and delivers resources; Droid and Forager item sprites are visible to everyone.
• A tomb with magma traps, a clue, a four-lever puzzle, a locked chest, and a Blue Rod reward. Other chests require keys. The Blue Rod is a reward in this version.
• Native Minecraft co-op: the integrated server supports eight players. Two local development instances joined the same match and synced distinct characters. Connections between different PCs haven't yet been verified in a real match. Melty uses the address advertised by the mod to connect participants.

Limitations and Validation

This is a small prototype, not a complete conversion of Forager. It’s missing full progression, more skills and advanced content, specific Sphinx ore, a real two-second freeze when leveling up, and more dungeon modules. The current level-up notification keeps the world running. The tomb uses a native Feature, without a locally locatable Structure registration.

Version 0.1.4 passed two matches authenticated through Melty, with six gameplay checks in each and a review of all recordings. The tomb's side-wall case kept the character fully visible. This doesn't prevent normal occlusion behind tall walls, ceilings, and leaves. Version 0.1.5 changes only license notices and documentation; the final package still needs installation validation from you.

Credits and Permissions

Minecraft: Mojang/Microsoft. Forager: HopFrog and its respective creators and publishers. Fabric and Fabric API: their contributors. FabricMC initial structure: CC0, with notice preserved. Original code produced for this creator with help from Codex. Fabric API is redistributed under Apache-2.0. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and LICENSE.

All rights reserved for the original code. The creator allows remixes on Melty. This permission does not transfer rights to Minecraft, Forager, or third-party component content. The project remains a private draft until final publication is confirmed.