Manycraft: Massively distributed minecraft

Minecraft is a popular game with more than 20 million paying users and many more playing the free version. However, in today´s multiplayer mode, only a few thousand users can play together. For a common setting, when players cannot modify the map, we have designed a distributed system to scale the number of users. The Manycraft software runs on users´ machines which communicate through Kiwano infrastructure. This paper describes its architecture and implementation. Manycraft node is available for download at http://manycraft.net, so we expect players to participate and join the demonstration at the given time slot.