CrossCraft

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CrossCraft

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A daily mini crossword where every answer is something from Minecraft. Type into a 5x5, 6x6 or 7x7 grid, race the clock, and land on your server's leaderboard. Same puzzle for everyone each day, plus endless practice grids.

Mod Loaders
Minecraft
26.2
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CrossCraft

A daily mini crossword, in Minecraft

Every day there is one grid, and it's the same grid for everyone. Every answer is something from the game: mobs, blocks, biomes, enchantments, potions, updates, a bit of old lore. Click a cell, type, and the puzzle grades itself the moment the last cell is filled.

  • Clues are trivia and wordplay: Skeleton's weapon, Hotbar space, Mob that ruins builds, </span> & Tales, the 1.20 update_.
  • Some clues are just an item icon. Name what's pictured.
  • Grids are 5x5, 6x6 or 7x7, and the size changes from day to day.

How to play

Run /crosscraft. Click a cell and type. Click it again or press Space to switch between across and down, Tab to jump to the next clue, Backspace to erase.

Button What it does
Check Marks every wrong letter. It costs you a clean solve
Reveal Fills in the answers and ends the game (press twice to confirm)
Times Today's fastest solvers on the server and your career stats (daily mode)
Share Copies a coloured-square results grid to your clipboard

The clock runs while the board is open; close it to pause. Solve the daily and the server announces your time in chat.

Commands

Command What it does
/crosscraft Today's daily puzzle
/crosscraft random Practice mode, unlimited grids
/crosscraft random new Abandon the current practice grid, deal a fresh one

Features

  • A global daily that resets at midnight US Eastern. Every server on the same version has the same grid.
  • A daily leaderboard. The fastest solvers on the server, with check-assisted solves marked.
  • Streaks and stats. Played, won, clean solves, current streak, best streak, fastest time.
  • Practice mode that never deals you today's daily, so it can't spoil it.
  • High contrast mode with a colourblind-safe palette.
  • Nothing to cheat with. The server holds the answers and keeps the clock. Your client only ever gets the shape of the grid and the clues.
  • 260 grids built from a hand-written bank of about 690 Minecraft answers, dealt like a deck so none repeats within a cycle.
  • Saves your progress. Log out mid-grid and pick up where you left off, clock included.

Installation

CrossCraft must be installed on both the client and the server, along with Fabric API.

  1. Install the Fabric loader for Minecraft 26.2
  2. Drop the CrossCraft jar and the Fabric API jar into your mods folder
  3. In singleplayer it just works. On a server, install it on both sides.

Players without the mod can't open the board, and nothing else breaks for them.

Credits

Inspired by the daily mini crosswords of newspaper puzzle pages. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Mojang.