Minebonk

Minebonk — Minecraft gameplay for Megabonk

Minebonk is a mod that adds Steve as a playable character in Megabonk. The world and the enemies stay Megabonk; the gameplay becomes Minecraft's: first-person view, hotbar and inventory, the 1.21 combat rules, Minecraft mobs and bosses, chests with Minecraft loot, and weapons that are Minecraft items.

Not affiliated with Mojang, Microsoft or the makers of Megabonk. This is an unofficial fan mod. It contains no Minecraft files: textures and sounds are read from your own Minecraft install, or downloaded once from Mojang's servers if you accept the prompt (see below).

A native mod, not two games running together

Some recent projects (for example universal-modder's Minecraft-in-GTA V demo) mix two games by running both at the same time and streaming camera, ground and events between them over a local connection. Minebonk does not do that. There is only one process: Megabonk. The Minecraft look and rules are rebuilt inside Megabonk itself (BepInEx + Harmony plugin): the Steve model, blocks, items, mobs, combat, HUD and sounds are all drawn and simulated by the mod in Megabonk's own engine. No Minecraft instance is launched, nothing runs in the background, and there is no extra latency or double memory use.

Install

1. Install BepInEx 6 IL2CPP, build be.755 (the BepInExPack_IL2CPP pack on Thunderstore, or the build from builds.bepinex.dev) into your Megabonk folder and run the game once, so BepInEx creates its folders. (Tested with the Steam version of Megabonk.)
2. Copy the BepInEx folder from this package into the Megabonk folder (it adds BepInEx/plugins/Minebonk/Minebonk.dll and NVorbis.dll).
3. Start the game and pick Steve in the character screen.
4. Camera: every run starts in third person, which is the recommended view and the smoothest. Press F5 to switch to first person (experimental: it can feel a little less smooth).

Minecraft resources

• If Minecraft Java Edition is installed (launcher folder %APPDATA%\.minecraft), the mod uses it automatically. Tested with 26.2.
• If it is not found, a prompt appears in the menu offering to download the resources (about 41 MB: the Minecraft client and the sounds the mod uses) from Mojang's official servers into BepInEx/config/MegabonkSteve_resources. Press F10 to open the prompt again. Restart the game after it finishes.

How you play

• You start with your bare hands. Everything else is found in chests: swords and axes from wood to netherite, armor from chainmail to netherite, food, arrows, a bow, shield, elytra, totem, pearls, potions. Better gear is rarer, and the difference in damage and protection is large.
• Minecraft combat: attack cooldown and charge, critical hits when falling, shield blocking (it breaks after a number of hits and recovers), mace smash damage that grows with the height you fell from, bow draw, ender pearls, golden apples, totem of undying, elytra with rockets.
• Weapons from level-ups are Minecraft items (Fire Charge, Trident of Channeling, TNT, Skeleton Bow, Piercing Crossbow, Mace, Sonic Boom, Firework Rocket, Splash Potion, Anvil, Sweeping Edge). Each fires when you do something (hit, crit, kill, block, land from a fall, eat, shoot an arrow...). At level 5 a weapon awakens: it keeps answering its trigger and also fires on its own. Sweeping Edge never becomes automatic.
• Enchanted books appear as level-up cards: Sharpness, Power, Efficiency, Multishot, Protection, Knockback, Mending and Luck, up to level V.
• Chests: Minecraft chests cost 10, 20, 37, 50 and so on. Free end chests replace the shady shop and the Moai, and vanish after you open them. Chests dropped by bosses give two Megabonk passive items.
• Passive — Treasure Hunter: chests hold two extra items and critical hits drop double gold.
• Mobs: Megabonk's enemies are Minecraft mobs (zombies, skeletons, creepers, spiders, slimes, pillagers, pigs, cows, bees, iron golems). Bosses: Wither, Elder Guardian, Warden, Ender Dragon.
• Zones: zone 2 is the Nether and zone 3 the End, with their own blocks, plants and fog. Your inventory, enchantments and levels come with you, and a free end chest waits at the start of each zone.
• Enchanting tables (2 per zone) give a free level when you use them, then recharge for 3:30. Villagers (2 per zone) trade items for gold; the strong items are always on sale and every purchase makes prices 10% higher. Both show on the minimap.
• Wolf Pack: a level-up ability. Tamed wolves fight beside you, one more every two levels.
• Books: Strength (level-ups) adds damage to everything you do. Sharpness is a book dropped by the big bosses: it enchants the weapon you last held, level I to X, and level X is ten times the damage.
• Achievements pop up in the top right like Minecraft's, and a summary of your run appears when you die.

Controls

Key — Action

Right click — Use item / block with shield / open chests and interact (the E key is disabled)

Left click — Attack (with anything; bare hands do 1 damage)

E — Inventory

F — Swap main hand and offhand

1–9, wheel — Hotbar

Ctrl / double W — Sprint

Shift — Slide / crouch

F5 — First / third person

F8 — Test panel (in game): spawn mobs and bosses, heal, kill all, full kit, sound volume

F9 — Skin picker (character screen and in game)

F10 — Download prompt for the Minecraft resources

Skins

F9 lists the skins saved in the Minecraft launcher, the nine default skins, and any 64x64 .png you put in BepInEx/config/MegabonkSteve_skins (end the file name with _slim for slim arms). The choice is remembered.

Troubleshooting

• The log is BepInEx/LogOutput.log. For more detail, create an empty file BepInEx/config/MegabonkSteve_debug.txt (this also enables the cheat keys L and K for levels).
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