Who made VoxelPort

VoxelPort is a one-person, open-source project by Garv Verma (Trazverse), a Game Design student at Poornima University in India. It started because port forwarding does not work on Jio and Airtel (CGNAT), so hosting a Minecraft server for friends was painful.

It is vibe-coded with an AI coding assistant, built with Electron, Go, React and TypeScript, and it comes from Local Miner, the project and developer (Aditya) who got Garv into building it. Akshat Mehta (nerkoux), his all-time friend, manages the server. The code is open (MIT) and has hundreds of automated tests.

WHO MADE IT.

VoxelPort is made by me, Garv Verma (online: Trazverse), a Game Design student at Poornima University in India. It is a one-person project: I design it, build it, run the relay, answer the tickets and write the guides.

I am a student with no budget, so everything here is free and open source. If something is broken or confusing, that is on me, and I want to hear about it.

LOCAL MINER STARTED THIS.

VoxelPort would not exist without Local Miner. Local Miner is a project with one clear goal: host a Minecraft server on your own PC, without port forwarding and without a VPN. It had that idea first, and it showed me that this problem could be solved.

Its developer, Aditya, is the person who pulled me into building things like this in the first place, and who pushed me until I made my own. I worked with the Local Miner team, and everything I learned there went straight into VoxelPort. I owe him a huge thank you.

If you like what VoxelPort does, please go and look at Local Miner too. They deserve the attention.

THE PROBLEM.

I wanted to play Minecraft with my friends on a server running on my own PC. That means port forwarding, and on most Indian connections (Jio, Airtel, hostel Wi-Fi) it simply does not work, because many customers share one public IP address (CGNAT). The usual answers were paying for hosting or waiting in a free host’s queue.

So I built a way around it. The first version of VoxelPort was a small Fabric mod. It grew into a desktop app for Windows and Linux that creates the server, installs Java, and puts the server online through a relay. Then came the Microsoft Store version, a Discord community, and an Android app (still in beta) that hosts a server from a phone. The Fabric mod is back too, for Minecraft 26.1 to 26.3, if you would rather open your world from inside the game.

One early lesson: my own internet routed relay traffic through another country, which made the ping about 151 ms. Adding a direct route to the relay, with an automatic fallback, brought it down to about 13 ms. Most of the work since has been this kind of problem.

HOW I BUILT IT.

VoxelPort is vibe-coded: I build it with an AI coding assistant. I describe what I want, the AI writes the code, and I run it on real PCs and phones, read what breaks, and ship the fixes. I say this openly because it matters when you decide how much to trust it.

To make up for that, the code is open (MIT) for anyone to read, it has hundreds of automated tests and a build pipeline that runs them, and every release is tested before it goes out. It still has bugs, so please report them.

AKSHAT MEHTA.

Akshat Mehta (nerkoux) is my all-time friend and the person who manages my server. He looks after the infrastructure side so that I can keep building, and VoxelPort would be a lot harder, and a lot less reliable, without him.

Go and see his work: his website and his GitHub are below.

THANK YOU TO.

VoxelPort also exists because of other people’s open-source work, and I am grateful to all of them.

Developer: Garv Verma on GitHub · LinkedIn. Comes from Local Miner (website, developer Aditya). Server managed by Akshat Mehta (GitHub).