CLUSTER COMMAND-GAME-LINE · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-09-06
Terminal Minecraft launchers
This cluster consists of command-line tools and terminal user interfaces for launching and managing Minecraft instances, offering features like managing multiple installations, customizable options, and content-addressed file storage. The dated history shows entries in September 2020, October 2020, February 2023, December 2025, January 2026, April 2026, May 2026, and July 2026 — an irregular pattern with long gaps and low overall volume. Traction is led by terminal-minceraft with 141 stars, while the other dated members have zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 8 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01terminal-minceraft141★1 molivehobbyMinecraft playable inside a terminal.
- 02rmcl0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal interface for launching Minecraft that allows players to manage multiple game installations and start the game.
- 03untitled-minecraft-launcher-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceA terminal-based launcher for the game Minecraft on Linux, allowing users to start the game from a command-line interface.
- 04nitrolaunch-cli0★25 daysliveopen sourceCommand-line launcher for Minecraft that allows players to start the game with customizable options.
- 05prism-tui-bin0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal user interface for PrismLauncher to manage and launch Minecraft instances.
- 06minecraft-launcher-cmd0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that starts Minecraft, offering a simple way to launch the game from terminal.
- 07shard0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line tool for launching Minecraft with content-addressed storage to manage game files.
- 08cmcl0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA command-line launcher for Minecraft that lets players start and manage the game from a terminal.
- 09picomc0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA command-line launcher for Minecraft that allows playing from a terminal.
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