Bowmap Progress

Bowmap's progress every day. I'm making this to hold myself accountable, and so anyone can see my progress :p

My goal is to have some kind of tangible progress every single day.

Progress

(In reverse chronological order... I know, yuck)

November 20, 2025, 57 days until release

• Got some actual progress.
• I've "started over", but right now I'm just re-doing the initial packet serialization stuff, and from there I can take any of the old code that I need, which I probably will :p

November 17, 2025, 60 days until release

• idek anymore
• Still thinking about this a lot but haven't been able to work on it

November 11, 2025, 66 days until release

• Alright, I am here.
• I'm going to rewrite the server. This isn't actually as bad as it sounds. The server is damn tiny right now, and built on a pretty fragile base. Starting over isn't too much of an issue.
• I need to handle clients, serialize their packets, and feed those into a system to handle them. That's really it :p

November uh 9... 2025, 68 days until release

• I have been informed that there are 68 days until release...
• This is NOT good news

October 24, 2025, 84 days until release

• Okay I have actually been working on the server I just keep forgetting to update this -.-
• Pretty sure that large rewrite is done, just some bugs I need to fix :p
• After this I'm going to try to work on smaller things and finish them before I move on to the next thing because god rewriting multiple things at once is a nightmare and I don't know why I keep doing it (maybe I have learned :p)
• After this I still need a decent rule system to start actually doing anything interesting :(
• Yes I've been working on that for like a month or something but don't worry about it ._.

October 22, 2025, 86 days until release

• I seriously need to learn to stop undergoing large refactors, they're just never a good idea...

October 21, 2025, 87 days until release

• No se

October 20, 2025, 88 days until release

• Nothing! I was very busy (and lazy) today :(

October 19, 2025, 89 days until release

• Pulling apart the server and doing a rather large rewrite of its main logic.
• Still don't have a good rule system, so that needs to happen, and then I can handle packets and respond to them in a reasonable way.

October 18, 2025, 90 days until release

• Side note, spec annoys me sometimes
• But anyways, there's still stuff to rewrite. I gotta finish this rule/event system so I can not go crazy. And then there's still a lot of mess :p
• Project crossed 1000 lines which is neat. The majority of that is codecs and packets but still (and I'm in the middle of a rewrite)

October 17, 2025, 91 days until release

• I'll try to remember to update this lol
• Continuing that rewrite :p
• Mostly boring, but it needs to get done
• After this I think I will work on blocks and chunks
• Besides blocks, there are also items, inventories, entities, the player, and a bunch of other things to do :p
• And that's just sort of "vanilla interop" things, not even the more interesting non-vanilla things I want to do!
• Big plans, no idea how much of that will be realized in 90 days but there will hopefully be at least something :p

October 16, 2025, 92 days until release

• Did a lot, fixed some bugs, did texture pack work, started rewriting some things that desperately need rewritten!
• I found some texture pack tweaks I can use to make the world look very interesting and much less like vanilla Minecraft, which is super cool.
• I think the game is starting to have its own kind of art style that I'm trying to nail down. I have a general vibe of what I want, but there are lot of blocks to make and I don't have all that much experience with pixel art - I've mostly just done items and not blocks (blocks are hard :p)

October 8, 2025, 100 days until release

• BUSY, just some thinking

October 7, 2025, 101 days until release

• Another time skip ._.
• Erm I got chunks working, at least chunks with only a single type of block in them
• And I broke the server and now I'm trying to fix it. I broke it like 2 days ago and now I honestly can't remember what's broken about it, so that's fun

September 27, 2025, 111 days until release

• Time skip, hello!
• Been a few days, got a little bit done, and a decent amount of thinking, but not much farther
• Next up is chunks, but there are some things I need to do before then.

September 22, 2025, 117 days until release

• More thinking, but nothing much yet

September 21, 2025, 118 days until release

• Still working through chunks :p
• Thought about stuff down the road

September 20, 2025, 119 days until release

• Some work on chunks. Not much really, just trying to understand them.

September 19, 2025, 120 days until release

• JOINED INTO THE WORLD AAH

September 18, 2025, 121 days until release

• Pretty sure I got a good amount done, probably NBT stuff and registries

September 17, 2025, 122 days until release

• Fixed broken NBT behavior
• A ton of work on registries, got the main guys done, I think there's just one left for now?

September 16, 2025, 123 days until release

• A LOT OF STUFF BIG DAY I DON'T EXACTLY REMEMBER WHAT
• Got much farther along in the protocols
• Got the dimension type registry working

September 15, 2025, 124 days until release

• Registries, made the dimension type schema and a dimension type
• Bunch of codec work

September 14, 2025, 125 days until release

• Made identifier codec
• Begun working on registries :D

September 13, 2025, 126 days until release

• NBT codecs, almost finished them

September 12, 2025, 127 days until release

• Maybe some random code stuff, but no progress

September 11, 2025, 128 days until release

• Names of stuff?
• More configuration
• Uh oh, NBT...

September 10, 2025, 128 days until release

• Got codecs working with optionals
• Got to configuration!
• Did some more thinking about the future (why can't I be there and not here :p)

September 9, 2025, 129 days until release

• Nothing so far
• And then not much after that :p
• Did a little bit of work on codecs (stuck on optionals, but didn't spend that long working on them)

September 8, 2025, 130 days until release

• Some more clean up
• Open sourced what I have now :D
• Started on login step
• More Codecs (optional seems tricky...)

September 7, 2025, 131 days until release

• Got packet decoding working (a better system)
• Started working on packet encoding for clientbound packets. SLP tomorrow?
• SLP TODAY (I stayed up way too late lmao)
• Moved networking stuff out of the main logic.
• Some other misc cleanup at midnight :p

September 6, 2025, 132 days until release:

• Made the initial packet decoding transducer
• Worked on codecs (strings, arrays, all the varnums). I had these working previously through a complex codec abstraction that was really unnecessary, but it's been much easier this time

September 5, 2025, 133 days until release:

• Made a packet splitting transducer...
• Figured out what I think is a good model for decoding packets as they come in from the client!

September 4, 2025, 134 days until release:

• Made this :p