ButcherCraft v0.10.0-alpha.1 — First Playable Production Alpha

Welcome to the first playable alpha of ButcherCraft!

This release marks a major milestone for the project. For the first time, players can interact with a fully functional workstation backed by the same simulation architecture that will power the complete meat processing facility in future releases.

New Features

Grinder Workstation

• Added the first playable workstation: the Grinder.

• Craft and place the Grinder in your world.

• Process Beef Trim into Ground Beef.

• Process Pork Trim into Ground Pork.

• Server-authoritative processing with visible progress.

• Save and load support for active grinder operations.

• Safe duplicate protection prevents multiple outputs from repeated interactions.

Gameplay

• Added player-ready Beef Trim and Ground Beef items.

• Added player-ready Pork Trim and Ground Pork items.

• Added crafting recipe for the Grinder.

• Added improved models, textures, localization, and creative tab support.

• Improved workstation feedback for processing, completion, blocked output, and invalid input.

Production Framework

The Grinder is now integrated into the Production Framework.

Production Runs can now:

• Assign Grinder work.

• Observe Grinder completion.

• Complete only after receiving authoritative workstation results.

Subsystem ownership remains strictly separated, preserving deterministic simulation behavior.

Engine Improvements

This release also includes the platform technology that will support future machines:

• Generic Execution Runtime

• Scheduler Effect Enforcement

• Planning Cadence

• Deterministic Execution Operation Identities

• Production-to-Workstation integration

• Improved persistence and duplicate protection

• Save/load safety improvements

Stability

• 1,236 automated unit and integration tests

• 19 automated in-world GameTests

• Manual Grinder gameplay verification completed

• Stable data generation

• Numerous persistence and runtime reliability improvements

Known Limitations

This is still an early Alpha release.

Current limitations include:

• One workstation (Grinder)

• Two grinder processes (Beef and Pork)

• Development progression rather than full survival progression

• No worker automation

• No Allocation system

• No Production automation

• Additional processing equipment is still under development

Thank You

Thank you for helping test ButcherCraft during its early development.

Every release brings us one step closer to building a complete industrial-scale meat processing simulation inside Minecraft.