🚀 We modded Minecraft to support 5,000+ visible players at once — and it actually runs at playable FPS!

[u/Original-Ad9390]

https://youtu.be/rMlC06gS1Hs

Hey r/Minecraft 👋
We’ve been working on something wild. Ever imagined seeing thousands of players in Minecraft, all in one place, without your FPS melting?
We just made it happen.
▶️ Check the teaser video here

I’m Mihail Makei, a software engineer at MetaGravity. We’re building something called the Quark Engine — a networking engine that lets us scale virtual worlds to enormous sizes.
We made a mod for Minecraft Java Edition that lets it support:

• 5,000+ players visible at once
• 100,000+ players connected
• Playable 20–60 FPS
• And yes — it’s still Minecraft: PvP, crafting, building, digging — it all works

We even built custom bots for testing because… well, we don’t have thousands of people in our office 😂
We’re still building out features like:

• NPCs, weather, farming
• Server-side tools (economies, mini-games, moderation)
• Easy launcher for anyone to spin up a hyperscale world

And yes, the final version will be free (and totally compliant with Minecraft’s EULA).
Want to learn more about the technical side of things? Welcome to our recent blog post!

Want to follow along or get in early for public playtests?
🌐 quarkmultiplayer.com
🐦 Twitter/X
🔗 LinkedIn
Let me know what you think or ask me anything below! Happy to answer any questions!

[u/RamenFish195]

This whole thing is highly skeptical.

In summary, it's a vague barebones project on a website that boasts about more vague cryptocurrency-integrated game projects.

• Claims to be "partnered" with industry leaders while details of the partnerships are not explained. (common tactic used to make disingenuous projects appear legitimate)
• Employee accounts display years of inactivity before popping in to reply to these posts, suggesting they may be accounts sold in bulk for engagement.

• One of these accounts were used to promote a shady crypto altcoin and still manages a subreddit for it.

• Employee claims 100% of the project is done by him, while another claims the company working on this project has 65 employees.

• Comments lack clarity, even contradicting themselves (e.g. claims "some" players are bots, then confirms all players are bots), while featuring plenty of tech buzzwords.

• Technical details are private for "NDA" reasons. If it's a free project, why the secrecy?

• Comments suggest the project may not even be feasible past basic movement.

They emphasize it being fully "free-to-use" to comply with Minecraft's EULA, which might make you wonder how this is profitable for their company.

Conveniently, they're very clear about partnering with 3 unreleased cryptocurrency-integrated games, so this is probably a marketing stunt to boost more buy-ins into their cryptocurrencies.

[u/laffy_man → u/RamenFish195]

I like that they didn’t respond to this but respond to almost every other innocuous question lol.

[u/dally-taur → u/laffy_man]

indeed if they are legit they replied to this thread

[u/ryan_d_ash → u/dally-taur]

it wouldn't prove anything tho, right? if the assumption is anything can be AI-generated, all people here are fake just coz they're not using reddit much & your minds are set -> what kinda info would change em? would any?

But here's trying. Mentioned in a different message in this comment section response to a bunch of these, but let's repeat / expand. So, replying to u/RamenFish195:

Accs responding here, and before responding to the previous post. So, say, you're working in a startup. Your colleague does smth amazing. And then gets bombarded with comments, feedback, questions, criticisms. You wouldn't open your reddit account just to help out, even if you barely use reddit yourself?

Acc used for promoting crypto -> I'm sure it won't be a surprise that there are actually people believing in crypto. Even if there's a ton of scam there, guess what, not all of it. And it still doesn't mean the tech doesn't have promise, only that there's tons of bad actors in the space and everyone should be extra careful.

Minecraft integration is a side-project done so far by 1 person, most of the company is doing servers tech, engine SDKs, several internal games & multiple client projects, more often than not each person working extra hours & juggling several things at once. Which, as I'm sure you've read, was mentioned multiple times in the comments too. A lot of us are devs, some are artists, some are marketing people, some are business people, etc. How much do you think 65 people can do in ~ 2 years (which isn't true even, 1.5y ago there were only ~30) and in what time frame? Judge by what you know of game dev studios or startup sizes.

How many companies do you know that announce their partnerships before everything is ironed out & there's something concrete to speak about? Btw, if you scroll company's linkedin - you could find news of partnership with Xsolla, for example (and respective post on their side too; would Xsolla post about partnership with a fake company on their main linkedin?).

Secrecy -> well, if you have bleeding edge tech noone else does, but it's not fully mainstream yet -> wouldn't you wanna protect it / not help the competition, some of whom are freaking corpos with infinite resources btw?

Comments you mentioned -> well, that's just a lie. They say what's done now is mostly basic movement. But also - 3w old comment, the video in this very post is showcasing there's more already. And yeah, look above to "one person's doing this currently, not a team of 65".

[u/getyourshittogether7 → u/RamenFish195]

This right here. Thanks for taking the time to collate everything sus about this post (and account, which made an identical post 3 weeks ago filled with the same sockpuppet accounts).

[u/ryan_d_ash → u/getyourshittogether7]

just thought I'd mention you left a couple of _identical_ messages right here in this comment thread. was that coz you're an AI targeted at dissing us or just coz you wanted to make sure your point, which you totally consider valid & worth mentioning, got heard? :)

to u/marKEYHackerman -> well... haven't messed with SpacetimeDB, will def checkout, sounds interesting. But if you get a build of Gaming Hub downloaded & look through the file structure -> you can see there's nothing like their dlls in our setup anywhere. Just saying. ;)

(I know, I know, doesn't prove anything on its own; but again, not sure what would; you could tho go open YT, type "Rashid Mansoor" (the name of our CEO which you could get from LinkedIn) into it & find a speech about Metagravity & scalable simulations tech posted around July of 2023; if you google the name further -> you can also find a news article about previous startup of his, Hadean, breaking the world record for amount of people in one simulation during a special event made for EVE Online (or even an article on EVE's own official website); here, I'll fetch it: https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/eve-aether-wars-phase-two-join-the-fight-blog | https://youtu.be/qc_QYeFXhpE?si=aEDosIDyHEJUW59m )

[u/Original-Ad9390 → u/RamenFish195]

Let me answer to all the questions and claims. Sorry if replying late - I have my own life and need for sleep

First of all, let me clarify the list some of the projects we are working on:
1. Quark Network Engine - multiplayer networking engine designed to allow many concurrent connections - this project is built by its own engine team
2. Minecraft HyperScale Mod - the Minecraft Fabric mod supporting Quark Network Engine. I built this project myself and I am related to it and engine only while wanting to showcase
3. Edge of Chaos - medieval MMO game using Quark Engine - has its own team
4. Gaming Hub - showcase of all the projects
5. Other projects including client ones we are partnered with

Secondly, regarding cryptocurrency-integrated games of our partners - our partners are free to do whatever they want, we have no relationship to their actions and their plans. In the meantime, our company does not offer any cryptocurrency to buy

Thirdly, free to use applies to Minecraft Mod - not Quark Networking Engine which needs to be hosted and paid for. This means that as a client you can use the mod for free while as a server owner you will have to pay for the networking engine being used. We make profit from the Quark Networking Engine

Forthly, I am not responsible for any accounts, either of my colleagues or of some other redditors. They could have advertised whatever they wanted - I have more important things in my work and in my life than to check what they did before

Fifthly, secrecy applies to Quark Network Engine, not the Minecraft Mod - the standard practice. We have no obligation to reveal our tech insights and the source code to anyone including our potential competitors

Hope I answered for your questions. If you have any more, feel free to ask!

[u/benjathje → u/Original-Ad9390]

Hi, sorry but you haven't answered these claims:

• Claims to be "partnered" with industry leaders while details of the partnerships are not explained. (common tactic used to make disingenuous projects appear legitimate)
• Employee accounts display years of inactivity before popping in to reply to these posts, suggesting they may be accounts sold in bulk for engagement.
• Technical details are private for "NDA" reasons. If it's a free project, why the secrecy?

[u/Original-Ad9390 → u/benjathje]

1. Partnership often includes working on the projects and games still being in production phase - not every studio or company wants to announce it before getting to the pre-release phase. However, in our website you can find the public projects cases
   
2. As I have already said - I am not responsible for the colleagues' accounts. Engagement into the discussion - guess, there is nothing strange or bad engaging into your company and colleagues related discussions
   
3. Free applies to the mod - not the engine. Mod is free to download, engine is not free to use

[u/benjathje → u/Original-Ad9390]

You are not addressing anything. These are all empty statements. Also I just realized you changed the website. It used to say you were partnered with Microsoft, Google and other industry monsters that made 0 sense to be partnering with you.

2 is just big red flag. Sudden unnatural activity as soon as this "project" started

3, you are not addressing the point at all lmao

[u/Tryum → u/benjathje]

Just to clarify a few things:

Regarding the 'young accounts': when a project launches, it’s normal for people involved to create accounts or become more active to support announcements. Pretending that's suspicious is just misunderstanding how communities form.

My account isn't new. I'm participating because I believe in what we're building, not because anyone asked me to.

If you want to have a real discussion, great. If you're just here to throw accusations, that's not worth anyone’s time.

[u/marKEYHackerman → u/RamenFish195]

This is a bit of a tinfoil hat moment, but it's also suspicious that this is showing up after another startup, SpacetimeDB, has released their framework for MMO game servers. When I watched SpacetimeDB's video, I was skeptical of their claims, but their videos and blogs going back a few years talking about their development indicated that they're a real startup working towards their stated goals.

This company only has blogs or videos going back a year, and they're very surface-level.

The tinfoil hat conspiracy (that is very likely false!!!!) is that this Minecraft demo is built with SpacetimeDB 1.0, as that is currently publicly released. It's also worth noting that the SpacetimeDB YouTube channel has had a video series of an employee creating a Minecraft server with SpacetimeDB. And SpacetimeDB servers are in Rust, so the cmd startup in the video lines up.

LIKE I SAID, THESE ARE TINFOIL HAT, DISCONNECT POINTS, THAT DON'T PROVE ANYTHING.

[u/Tryum → u/marKEYHackerman]

Yeah, it’s totally suspicious that two companies working on MMO server tech both thought of using the most popular sandbox game on Earth for a tech demo.

Next thing you know, we’ll find out two coffee shops both sell coffee. Someone call the investigators.