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A Minecraft server in Rust focused on a strong foundation and performance

Is Steel-Foundation/SteelMC beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, Steel-Foundation/SteelMC merged 42 of 78 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 5 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
734
Forks
107
Open beginner issues
5
Indexed issues
45
Avg merge
5d 8h
Merged PRs (30d)
42
Dominant language
Rust
License
AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 5, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 6, 2026
Contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
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How to contribute to Steel-Foundation/SteelMC

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's AGPL-3.0 license.
  4. Pick one of the 5 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • /domain takes ~23 seconds to enter the Nether even with chunks loaded
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#745 ·

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  • propose
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#744 · 1 comment ·

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  • Landing block particles are missing
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#742 ·

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  • Fall damage animation jitters and changes with facing direction
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#741 ·

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  • Teleporting into unloaded chunks leaves players underground
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#738 ·

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  • Clarify import policy
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Refactor

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 56/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#736 ·

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  • World suggestions in commands contain duplicates for current domain
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#733 ·

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  • Cross-dimension pearls take extra health depending on world tick order
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#729 ·

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  • Enchantment effects can damage the wrong item stack
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#726 ·

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  • [Foundation] Hostile mob
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#701 ·

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  • [Foundation] rework loot
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#700 ·

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  • WriteTo derive doesn't preserve enum generics
    Open
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#689 ·

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  • Endermite doesn't give exp when i slaughter them
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#674 · 1 comment ·

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  • Rework nbt entity data load
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#644 ·

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  • Dead players are not ticked
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 53/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#638 · 1 comment ·

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  • [26.3] Fix the entity position path
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#606 ·

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  • SIMD encode/decode of VarInt and VarLong
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#596 ·

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  • Match Vanilla's throttled PLAYER_LOADING ticket admission
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#586 ·

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  • Implement vanilla CombatTracker state and death attribution
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#574 ·

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  • Call `finalize_spawn` with `EntitySpawnReason::Structure` when spawning structure mobs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#564 ·

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  • Loading a numeric field for entities & block entities only expects exact number tag
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#559 ·

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  • Rework the entity inheritance system
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#556 · 7 comments ·

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  • feat: add `MapItemSavedData`
    May be free again Open
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#541 · 2 comments ·

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  • [26.3] rework commands
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Command Enhancement Refactor

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#526 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • [26.3] Implement cushions
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Block Enhancement

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#519 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Fsync chunk writes
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#508 ·

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  • [Refactor] sign_block has separate implementation of convert_to_rotation_segment
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#486 ·

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  • [FEAT] Docker Compose Compliance With itzg's yaml
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#396 · 9 comments ·

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  • Pick block swaps the held item even when an empty hotbar slot is available
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#390 · 1 comment ·

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  • Make BlockPlaceContext more clear
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#362 · 1 comment ·

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  • Allow zero simulation distance in the packaged schema
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#345 ·

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  • Direct TranslatedMessage construction bypasses generated translations
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#339 · 1 comment ·

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  • Proposal: Add a ROADMAP.md / STATUS.md
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#297 · 4 comments ·

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  • rustls no likey termux
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 73/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#289 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

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  • NBT template empty.nbt is missing size
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 54/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#288 · 5 comments ·

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  • implement protocol abstractions
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#79 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Foundation] Player combat
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#702 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Finish vanilla compatible explosions and TNT
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#575 ·

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  • Active item use can overwrite changes to the held stack
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#529 ·

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  • [26.3] Create Transformer
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Block Enhancement Item Refactor

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#516 ·

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  • Adventure mode item placement ignores can_place_on
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Refactor

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Steel-Foundation/SteelMC#495 · 1 comment ·

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