Devlog 1.0

Today I worked on the basic logic, please excuse my terrible graphics lol

What I plan for the future:

• Different Resources
• Tech tree
• Textures…

Stay tuned for the next devlog!!

Devlog 5 [v1.0.0]

I am proud to announce that I have finally released Version 1.0, working (hopefully) perfectly out of the box, so here’s a list of what’s new:

Added

• Automatic dependency installation

  • Mods with required dependencies are now installed automatically

• Upgrade --check flag

  • clicraft upgrade --check shows available updates without installing
  • Summarizes up-to-date, outdated, incompatible, and errored mods

• Modpack import

  • clicraft import <file.mrpack> imports Modrinth modpacks

• Resource pack and shader support

  • clicraft search <query> --resourcepacks searches resource packs
  • clicraft search <query> --shaders searches shaders
  • clicraft install <slug> --resourcepacks installs to resourcepacks/
  • clicraft install <slug> --shaders installs to shaderpacks/

• Shell completions

• Java version detection

  • clicraft info shows Java version and compatibility status
  • clicraft launch warns if Java version is incompatible

• Instance-aware search filtering

  • Search automatically filters by Minecraft version and mod loader when run from an instance directory

• Upgrade command keywords

  • clicraft upgrade mods — Update all mods directly
  • clicraft upgrade loader — Update mod loader directly
  • etc

Changed

• Renamed search version flag from -v, --version to -m, --mc-version to avoid conflict with global --version flag
• Refactored documentation — All docs rewritten to be concise and direct

Fixed

• Typo in version option - “curent” --> “current”
• Search --limit validation - Now shows error for non-numeric input instead of HTTP 400
• Tilde expansion in paths - ~/path now correctly expands to home directory in search -i flag

Devlog 4.5 [v0.4.6]

Added

• Added --last option to launch command
  • Launches the last ran instance
  • call with --last or -l
• Allow user to launch server with launch command

Devlog 4.4 [v0.4.5]

Added

• Added force option to create command
  • Overwrites existing instance if folder already exists in path
  • call with --force or -f
• Added path option to create command
  • Specifies a path other than the working directory to install the instance
  • call with --path or -p
• Multi-mod installation support
  • Install multiple mods in a single command: clicraft install mod1 mod2 mod3
  • Shows installation summary when installing multiple mods
  • Tracks success/failure count for batch installations

Devlog 4.3 [v0.4.4]

Added

• Added config entry for custom JVM args
• Cleaned up the Docs

Devlog 4.2 [0.4.3]

Added

• Launch by Alias clicraft alias
  • Add alias clicraft alias add [name] [path]
  • remove alias clicraft alias remove [name]
  • list aliases clicraft alias

Devlog 4.1 [v0.4.1 - 0.4.2]

[0.4.2] - 2026-01-24

Emergency Patch

Changed

• Fixed post-command.js

[0.4.1] - 2026-01-24

Added

• Published to npm
  • Package available as @bobschlowinskii/clicraft
  • Install globally with npm install -g @bobschlowinskii/clicraft
• Added Auto-update checking
  • disable by setting checkUpdates to false in ~/.clicraft/settings/

Devlog 4.0 [v0.3.1-v0.4.0]

[0.4.0] - 2026-01-22

Added

• Multi-Account Authentication (clicraft auth)
  • Support for multiple Microsoft/Minecraft accounts
  • New unified clicraft auth command with subcommands:
    • auth login - Add a new account or update existing
    • auth logout [account] - Remove an account (interactive selection if multiple)
    • auth switch [account] - Switch between saved accounts
    • auth status [account] - Show all accounts or specific account details
    • auth list - List all saved accounts
  • Accounts stored in ~/.clicraft/auth/accounts.json
  • Active account highlighted with ▶ marker in status
  • Token status (valid/expired) shown for each account
  • Automatic migration from legacy auth.json format

Changed

• Auth Commands Restructured
  • Replaced standalone login, logout, status commands with auth subcommand
  • Backward compatible loadAuth() and refreshAuth() exports maintained

Deprecated

• Old clicraft login, clicraft logout, clicraft status commands are now under clicraft auth

[0.3.2] - 2026-01-22

Changed

• Major Codebase Refactoring

[0.3.1] - 2026-01-22

Added

• Uninstall Command (clicraft uninstall)
  • Remove mods from your Minecraft instance
  • Interactive multi-select when no mod specified
  • Confirmation prompt before deletion (skip with --force)
  • Removes mod file and updates mcconfig.json

Devlog 3.0 [v0.3.0]

I am renaming this program to CLIcraft to avoid confusion with mcpkg by crispyricepc

Added

• Config Command (clicraft config)

  • New command to manage CLI settings and game settings

• Global Configuration Directory (~/.clicraft/)

  • Centralized config directory for CLI-wide settings
  • settings.json - CLI settings (Java path, memory, mod source, etc.)
  • game-settings-ignore.json - Patterns for settings to exclude when capturing
  • default-game-settings.json - Default Minecraft settings applied to new instances
  • auth.json - Authentication tokens (migrated from ~/.mcpkg/)

• Game Settings in mcconfig.json

  • New gameSettings field to store Minecraft options
  • Capture settings from options.txt with customizable ignore list
  • Automatically apply game settings when creating from config

• Create from Existing Config (clicraft create with mcconfig.json)

  • Detects mcconfig.json in current directory
  • Creates new instance from existing configuration
  • Installs same Minecraft version, mod loader, and loader version
  • Automatically installs all mods from the config
  • Applies game settings if present

• Added --mods option to clicraft info

  • Shows only installed mods instead of the entire instance info

Changed

• Improved mod installation with better error handling

Devlog 2.1 [v0.2.1-v0.2.2]

Added

• Version Command (mcpkg -v, --version)
  • Displays cool art and version!

Devlog 2.0 [v0.2.0]

Added

• Instance Info (mcpkg info)

  • Display comprehensive instance information
  • Shows instance name, type, mod loader, and versions
  • Lists installed mods with version numbers
  • Storage breakdown by directory (libraries, assets, mods, etc.)
  • World saves count and details
  • Verbose mode for detailed output (--verbose)

• Upgrade Command (mcpkg upgrade)

  • Interactive upgrade menu for mods, loader, or Minecraft version
  • Upgrade all mods at once to latest compatible versions
  • Upgrade individual mods by name (mcpkg upgrade sodium)
  • Upgrade Fabric loader version with automatic library downloads
  • Config format migration for future compatibility
  • Force upgrade option (--force)

• Config Versioning

  • Added configVersion field to mcconfig.json
  • Enables future migrations and compatibility checks

Changed

• Improved mod tracking with updatedAt timestamp on upgrades

Finished the site! (Thanks Copilot)

Devlog 1.0 [v0.1.0]

I eventually want this package to be installable through npm, but my account is broken rn, so ill fix it later :p

Added

• Instance Creation (mcpkg create)

  • Interactive prompts for instance configuration
  • Support for Fabric and Forge mod loaders
  • Client and server instance types
  • Automatic download of Minecraft client/server JAR
  • Automatic download of all required libraries
  • Automatic download of game assets
  • Paginated version selection (10 items per page)
  • Creates mcconfig.json with instance metadata

• Mod Search (mcpkg search)

  • Search mods on Modrinth by name
  • Filter by Minecraft version (--version)
  • Filter by mod loader (--loader)
  • Limit results (--limit)
  • Displays download counts, supported loaders, and Modrinth links

• Mod Installation (mcpkg install)

  • Install mods from Modrinth to instance
  • Automatic version matching for Minecraft version and loader
  • Dependency detection with warnings
  • Force reinstall option (--force)
  • Instance path option (--instance)

• Microsoft Authentication (mcpkg login, mcpkg logout, mcpkg status)

  • Microsoft OAuth login via browser
  • Xbox Live and Minecraft Services authentication
  • Token refresh for persistent sessions
  • Secure token storage in ~/.mcpkg/auth.json

• Game Launching (mcpkg launch)

  • Launch Minecraft directly from terminal
  • Automatic classpath building for vanilla and Fabric libraries
  • Support for offline mode (--offline)
  • Verbose output option (--verbose)
  • Instance path option (--instance)

What I aim to add:

• Loading settings from a settings.json file
• Support for importing profiles from mcconfig.json files
• and more!

Devlog 0: My Plans for this game

Hi everyone! This is going to be my baby for the next 2 years, I guess. My Idea is that this game will focus on the shooter niche and involve lots of confusing physics concepts, such as time reversal and such.

It’s all based on the idea of an elemental property called the tachyonic charge. A positive charge means you cascade forwards in time; a negative charge means you propagate backwards in time. In the game, you can harness this charge to control your local time field (i.e. for making enemies go backwards in time!). It’s a combination of Superhot’s gameplay and Half Life’s science-y theme.

The story starts in Equinox Labs, where you, a scientist working there find some issues with the tachyonic field reader in Test Lab 41, which is outputting an exponentially growing discrepancy of your local temporal inertia. Days later, disaster strikes and the tachyonic field imbalance reaches a catastrophic point: rifts appear, teleportation havoc commences, and the entire Lab complex is experiencing a Class A emergency. Your job, as the only scientist with a tachyonic charge stabilizer device (a tachyocloak!), is to find a way to stop this madness before it shifts the world’s - or the universe’s - paradigm into backwards-time!