Veloren is an open source game written entirely in Rust. The open-world, voxel game takes inspiration from Zelda, Dwarf Fortress, and Minecraft. It started in 2018 and is still being actively developed. I wanted to explore the codebase and get a feel for how it was structured. To do that, I traced the code from a user’s mouse click in the client all the way to damage being dealt to an enemy creature on the server.

I’ve tried making blog sites before, but I always get 90% through making the infrastructure to host it and give up. I was recently talking with a good friend, and we discussed how there are three steps to initiating change. First, one needs to acknowledge that there is a problem. The second is crafting a plan with measurable steps towards improvement. Lastly, the person needs to carry through with their plan.