Upcoming MMO 'BitCraft Online' will be open source

By Liam Dawe - 9 Jun 2025 at 9:02 am UTC

Last updated: 9 Jun 2025 at 2:51 pm UTC

The upcoming MMO BitCraft Online is doing something very unusual for the genre, it's going to be open source. I'll admit, I hadn't actually heard of it at all until someone pointed it out to me on Mastodon. Now, it's clearly on my radar.

It's entering Early Access on June 20th, with support for Windows and macOS. There doesn't seem to be anti-cheat mentioned for it yet, so it will likely work on Linux systems with Valve's Proton. And hey, if the open source it, perhaps community hackers will end up porting it fully to Linux.

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The open source note was written in an official news post back in April, with the developer saying the 3 "foundational reasons" for making it open source:

We want the genre to be more accessible

We think BitCraft will benefit from open source collaboration and exploration

We want to give something back

Part of their work is already source available, with SpacetimeDB "an all-in-one backend server and database designed for building and running multiplayer games and apps with incredible speed" up on GitHub. Right now it's not open source but that will be eventually.

For the game itself, they haven't noted a license yet, but they did say it will be "one of the OSI's approved open source licenses".

BitCraft Online | Release Date: 20th June 2025

Official links:

Steam

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: MMO, Open Source, Steam, Upcoming | Apps: BitCraft Online

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neon_soaked_chryssalid 9 hours ago

Interesting! It looks like they plan to sell it during early access, but go f2p upon full release. I wonder what their monetisation strategy is after that point. I see there's a demo for it, I'll have to give that a try!

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RFSharpe 7 hours ago

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All I can say is that I am glad they are resetting the world on June 16th.

I went into the game tutorial. I got into what they referred to as the "Vault" and started clicking. When I got back to my character I had nothing on my torso, legs or feet. In other words, I was naked. I then had the brilliant idea to reset my character. When I reset my character, I had to rename my character. I tried the same name as I had previously and it would not accept the name. There was no error message, so I assume the name was considered "taken"...

Bottom line:
I am naked and nameless in the land of BitCraft! No way I am heading to town! emoji

[Edit]
I could not figure out how to get my previous character name back. I did find my clothes in my inventory though.

Last edited by RFSharpe on 10 Jun 2025 at 12:55 am UTC

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