Installer

Install mindustry-antigrief/client-installer through the mod browser in the vanilla game and allow the game to restart, upon restarting you will be prompted with an install popup, choose a version and it will install itself.

Changelog

Development/Unstable Builds

Steam

Windows

There are 3 methods to install the client on steam for windows.

Automatic Installer

Refer to the installer section

Single Command Installer

Run this command in a CMD window as admin (replace the path if needed): cd /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mindustry" && del Mindustry.exe && mklink Mindustry.exe C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe && curl -L -o jre\client.jar https://github.com/mindustry-antigrief/mindustry-client-v8-builds/releases/latest/download/desktop.jar && echo Done! then set the game's launch options to /c java -jar "%cd%\jre\client.jar"

Semi Automated Install

1. Download the desktop.jar file from the latest release.
2. Download the steam_appid.txt file and place it in the same folder as the jar.
3. Place the desktop.jar and steam_appid.txt in the same folder.
4. Ensure steam is running and you are logged in, double click the jar and it should then open the client on steam.

Manual Install

Removed due to this no longer working correctly in v7+, may rewrite later.

Mac OS

1. Download the desktop.jar file from the latest release.
2. Open the game install folder, right click the Mindustry.app file and click Show Package Contents.
3. Navigate to the Resources folder Contents > Resources.
4. Replace the desktop.jar with the one you just downloaded.
5. Launching the game should now start the client.

• To uninstall the client, delete the desktop.jar file in Resources as well as the Mindustry file in the MacOS folder. Start the game, accept the error and start it again.

Linux

1. You are using linux, I'm sure you can figure this out yourself.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING for general code style and PR guidelines.

If you are a first-time contributor looking for features to implement or bugs to fix, see the issues tagged with 'candidate' in the Mindustry-Suggestions repostiory.

Building

Unstable builds are generated automatically for every commit. You can see them here.

If you'd rather compile on your own, follow these instructions. First, make sure you have JDK 17 installed. Other JDK versions will not work. Open a terminal in the Mindustry directory and run the following commands:

Windows

Running: gradlew desktop:run
Building: gradlew desktop:dist
Sprite Packing: gradlew tools:pack

Linux/Mac OS

Running: ./gradlew desktop:run
Building: ./gradlew desktop:dist
Sprite Packing: ./gradlew tools:pack

Server

The client doesn't work as a server believe it or not.

Android

1. Install the Android SDK here. Make sure you're downloading the "Command line tools only", as Android Studio is not required.
2. In the unzipped Android SDK folder, find the cmdline-tools directory. Then create a folder inside of it called latest and put all of its contents into the newly created folder.
3. In the same directory run the command sdkmanager --licenses (or ./sdkmanager --licenses if on linux/mac)
4. Set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable to point to your unzipped Android SDK directory.
5. Enable developer mode on your device/emulator. If you are on testing on a phone you can follow these instructions, otherwise you need to google how to enable your emulator's developer mode specifically.
6. Run gradlew android:assembleDebug (or ./gradlew if on linux/mac). This will create an unsigned APK in android/build/outputs/apk.

To debug the application on a connected device/emulator, run gradlew android:installDebug android:run.

Troubleshooting

Permission Denied

If the terminal returns Permission denied or Command not found on Mac/Linux, run chmod +x ./gradlew before running ./gradlew. This is a one-time procedure.

Where is the mindustry.gen package?

As the name implies, mindustry.gen is generated at build time based on other code. You will not find source code for this package in the repository, and it should not be edited by hand.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of the "source" of generated code in mindustry.gen:

• Call, *Packet classes: Generated from methods marked with @Remote.
• All entity classes (Unit, EffectState, Posc, etc): Generated from component classes in the mindustry.entities.comp package, and combined using definitions in mindustry.content.UnitTypes.
• Sounds, Musics, Tex, Icon, etc: Generated based on files in the respective asset folders.

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Gradle may take up to several minutes to download files. Be patient.
After building, the output .JAR file should be in /desktop/build/libs/Mindustry.jar

Feature Requests

Please post feature requests and bug reports in the discord