Summary
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Run a Wayland compositor inside Minecraft with the Waylandcraft mod – why not?
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You can run programs like windows in the world, the creator demonstrates it with videos, Osu and Linux terminal.
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It’s Linux only and your windows are only visible to you and no one else, but it’s still a cool project.
Wayland has been at the center of several big Linux stories this year. We’ve seen some distros embrace it, some drop X11 in favor of it, and people create alternatives to X11 to avoid Wayland. But no one asks: “What about adding Wayland to Minecraft?” mainly because they why? Minecraft is a game, not an operating system.
But it turns out that it wasn’t as stupid a question as we first thought. The modder actually added the Warland compositor to Minecraft and if you’re in the mood to fire up a Linux terminal in the popular block-based game, you can give their mod a go.
Someone got the Wayland composer working on Minecraft because why not
“I’m using Java by the way”
As seen Hackadaythis cool mod comes to us via EVV1E. It’s called Waylandcraft and its main purpose is to bring Wayland to Minecraft. This allows you to run applications in your game as small windows visible in the world. The video above shows EVV1E playing Osu, watching videos, and using a terminal using Waylandcraft, but personally I’d like to see if he can run Minecraft on Minecraft.
Here’s all you need to run Waylandcraft on your computer:
System dependencies
OS: Linux
Minecraft 26.1.2
Fabric mod downloader
xkbcommon library 1.11.0
xkbcommon tools (xkbcli)
In addition, it is recommended:
EVV1E says that the mod does not support multiplayer use, as this would involve streaming data to every player who can see it. However, you can still use the mod on the server; it’s just that others won’t see what you’re doing. If you want to watch some YouTube videos while you wait for your stuff to thaw, that’s totally fine.
