Hey I'm new to Minecraft and was wondering how custom servers were programmed without exsisting server source code. Was the official server Java bytecode decompiled? Thanks.
I didn't ask how servers were made... I asked how they were made without any existing source code, as in how people new how the server operated. Thanks chariot for the only useful post, anyone know how than infomation was retrieved? Did they just reverse engineer the client and server?
Take a look at this page on the wiki, boxerfangg: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Development_Resources