Minecraft on Rust: правда whether Java Edition переписали on Раст

Horizon is a project by Louis Marie (on GitHub – Ludovic111), now living in the organization horizon-rust. According to README, this is Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3, which is translated into Rust: a home program without Java, which reads the same worlds, plays by the same rules and generates the same terrain as the original one. The code is open under the license of MIT, a free and unofficial project.

The project is growing very quickly. As of October 30, 2026, the repository has about 4,300 stars, 81 members and more than 7,800 comedies, and new assembly takes place several times a day.

===Horizon===Horizon is listed through his Luncher, for Windows x64, MacOS on Apple Silicon and Linux x86-64. Launcher enters through Microsoft's account, where Java Edition is purchased, and prepares the game files from your copy of 26.3 or downloads it from Mojang. You need a Vulkan or DirectX 12 card on Windows, Vulkan, or OpenGL 3.3 on Linux; anyone on Mac fits with Apple Silicon.

README lists:

• single player With vanilla generation of the world, lobes, residents, raids, redstone and all commands; conservation in vanilla format, worlds from 1.8 to 26.2 are updated as in the game;
• resource packs and data packs - datapacks with functions, predicates and world generation for now;
• game with friends - via local network, by invitation code and on regular servers, including those with a license;
• your server without Java;
• your mods - zoom, FPS counter, on-screen keys and minimap, written in Rust. Java mods do not work in Horizon: Sodium, Create or JEI cannot be placed there. Only mods from data and resources are transferred from Modrinth and CurseForge builds.

In addition, there's a long-range drawing of up to 1,024 cups, support for the gamepad, and management of the play of scripts and I.I. agents. The well-known miscalculations are also listed: for example, objects have no lines with attributes in the pop-up clues.

This is the main figure of the project, and it is worth reading carefully.

The authors compare Horizon to the vanilla with automatic "differential" tests: the same situation — the production of a cup, the click on the menu, the command, the behavior of the moba — is being run to Horizon and in the original game, and the results are checked. The README refers to 281 such tests in the audit dated 13 October 2026 and more than 300 in the hat. Each of the 14 subsystems — the ring, the light, the generation of the world, the network, the sound, and so forth — the project itself estimates 0 to 1, and now everyone has 1, hence the 100%.

What follows from this:

• is self-esteem: checks are written and run by the project itself, there are no independent measurements;
• 100% of what is being checked- this is exactly what is written in the README;
• The authors perform checks with the original game at home: the game is not included in the open repository.

Horizon writes that there is no code, texture, or Mojang sound: all this launcher takes from your purchased copy on your computer, and the repository does not allow such files to be checked. The README contains a reservation: the project has not been approved by Mojang and Microsoft and is not linked to them.

In this case, Horizon is not a "like game" but a transfer of the original: the authors check the vanilla behavior, and README describes the account where each Java Edition 26.3 compares its version to Rust. As in Mojang and Microsoft, there are no official statements about Horizon. Therefore, we do not refer to downloading: the project unofficially, it is less than a month old, and the position of the right holder about it is not yet available. The source code and README are based on links at the end.

Nothing. There is no news of Java Edition moving to Rust, and Mojang has not promised anything like that. The only "official" place where it's being spoken is the website of reviews by Feedback.minecraft.net: On January 2026, the player proposed that Java Edition be moved to Rust because of Java's garbage collector's trumps. On October 30, the offer had four votes, no comment, and Mojang's response.

But Mojang made another change for real: version 1.21.11 became the last one with obfuscated code, and with 26.1 Java Edition comes with real names in the code. Mojang did this for the sake of modders, but now it’s easier for everyone to understand the game’s structure.

Horizon is not the first to rewrite Minecraft in Rust. The rest write more modestly and honestly that they are far from playing:

• FerrumC ===Minecraft ====Minecraft on Rust, 2023, MIT license. The main branch is compatible with a normal client of 1.21.8, works in many streams and can download vanilla worlds. It is now being rewritten, and according to the authors, it is an early alpha: creative server and mini-game, without survival, without exact vanilla repetition, and without replacing Paper or Spigot.
• Rimecraft It is a set of libraries on Rust that repeat the Java Edition device. Since 2023, AGPL-3.0 license. You can't play yet, it's just a code.
• Oxidizium It is not a new game, but a mod for Fabric and Quilt; it also replaces parts of Java Edition with functions on Rust. ===MathHelper===In the meantime, one game math class (MathHeller) has been replaced. Maud is designed for a server, and the main version needs Java 22 or newer.

I still come across Rhodes It is an early clone that does not yet have a client or server on README. The project itself writes that it checks with the ducky code of the old version of the game (Legacy), so we do not give a link to it.

If you need a fast server now, it's not done on Rust, but on ordinary kernels: Paper, Purpur, or Fabric with Litium. What to choose is taken from the guide. “Minecraft server core”.

For the query “minecraft for growth”, search engines confuse two different things:

• Rust - programming language, in which fast programs are written without a garbage collector. It is on it that Horizon, FerrumC and the rest of the projects from this article were made.
• Rust - a game of survival From the British studio Facepunch, released in 2018. She has nothing to do with Minecraft: they share only the survival genre and the building of bases in both.

• Minecraft remains the same. Java Edition is updated in Java, mods, resource packs and servers work as before. Latest version - 26.3 «Wilderness Bound», the same one that Horizon rewrites.
• I want more FPS - you don't have to wait for Rust. Sodium, Lithium and four other mods are making a marked acceleration of Java Edition now; what everyone does is taken apart in a guide. “FPS Mods”, and in JuxLauncher they are installed with one button.
• Any version of the game is needed - from old to 26.3 - JuxLauncher will download it along with the required Java itself: all versions of Minecraft.

• Horizon: repository on GitHub - README (what works, parity table, known issues, Mojang file disclaimers) and work plan.
• FerrumC: repository on GitHub.
• Rimecraft: repository on GitHub.
• Oxidizium: mod page on Modrinth.
• Mojang: proposal to switch to Rust on feedback.minecraft.net, no obfuscation of Java Edition code.