Mindustry
Mindustry is a real-time strategy, tower defense, factory game with online and local multiplayer support. The game also features a single-player campaign.
Binary URI template: https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/releases/download/v{version}/Mindustry.jar
Source URI template: https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/archive/refs/tags/v{version}.tar.gz
Playing
Mindustry requires a Java Runtime Environment to play. The command to run Mindustry on the typical target platform is java -jar Mindustry.jar.
The Java Runtime Environment is easy to install on most GNU/Linux systems.
- Debian (Debian, Mint, Ubuntu):
sudo apt install default-jre - RPM (Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSUSE):
sudo dnf install java - Arch (Arch Linux, ElementaryOS, Manjaro):
sudo pacman -S jre-openjdk
Building
✓ Mindustry source code is provided with a copyleft license, GPLv3.
✗ The source code is developed in public on Github, a forge which some Libregaming Org members disapprove of and are unwilling to use. Write a doc about this.
✗ Community discussion, development, and mapmaking for Mindustry take place on Discord, a virtual community some Libregaming Org members disapprove of and are unwilling to use. Write a doc about this.
Gradle is used to build official and development releases for Mindustry. The build system requires Java Development Kit version 17 exclusively.
Binary URI template: https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-{version}-bin.zip
- Debian (Debian, Mint, Ubuntu):
sudo apt install openjdk-17-jdk - RPM (Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSUSE):
sudo dnf install java-17-openjdk - Arch (Arch Linux, ElementaryOS, Manjaro):
sudo pacman -S jdk17-openjdk
Embedded Systems
Builds for ARM are not officially supported. Try building it and see what's missing? The developer has said they will accept pull requests for ARM support. May need libarcarm64.so.
Community Creations
Libregaming Org has not yet published any guides to playing Mindustry.
You can help by creating original maps and providing them in an open repository. Libregaming Org has not yet published any community maps. We should probably write a tutorial for making maps.
Libregaming Org does not currently run any community servers for Mindustry.
There is a page for Mindustry at LibreGameWiki.