Frequently asked

Five things, and they share a world. A fleet of offline robots, a Minecraft Java Edition server written from scratch in Rust, an intent-driven crafting MMO, a hardware catalogue and build planner covering 1985 to 2027, and a projected touch-surface research direction.

The engines, the tooling and the hardware designs are all in-house. That is the point of the name: a loom for the parts that have to interlock and a forge for the parts that have to be made from raw.

The Part Picker is live and the catalogue is complete. Dust MC is public on GitHub and you can read and build it, but it does not yet accept a player connection. Return of the Runes compiles but has never been runtime-playtested, so there is nothing we could hand you that would run.

We would rather tell you that than ship a trailer that implies otherwise.

Because worldgen is the one subsystem a server cannot afford to inherit. A generation defect is latent in every chunk already written to disk, so fixing it later does not repair the world it already made.

The decision was re-examined once licensing stopped being an obstacle, and it survived. It costs three to four years and buys full ownership.

No. The main model has no network namespace at all, which means there is no setting that could be misconfigured to restore one. There are no accounts and nothing phones home.

Where outside information is genuinely needed, it comes in through a separate machine on a physically one-way link, so nothing routes back out.

No, and that is deliberate. Merchant listings bind to catalogue parts through a scorer built from stated rules, and every match records the reasons that produced it.

A matcher that is 95 percent right puts a wrong price on one part in twenty, and nothing downstream can tell you which one. Rules can be read, argued with and corrected. That matters more here than cleverness.

Dust MC is public and GPL-3.0, and the protocol and worldgen work is where a second pair of eyes is worth most. Issues and pull requests are genuinely read.

The robot repository is private while hardware is still arriving, and Return of the Runes is not in a state where an outside contributor could do anything useful yet.

Within 3 to 5 business days. It is a small studio and we would rather quote a number we actually hit than a faster one we miss.

If your question is about Dust MC specifically, opening an issue on GitHub is usually faster and leaves a record other people can find.

Same studio, same projects, same people. The name changed and the GitHub organisation moved with it.

Older links pointing at the previous organisation profile will not resolve, because that kind of URL is not redirected when an organisation is renamed. Repository links still work.