Mindustry
Factorio-like tower defense game. Build production chains to gather more resources, and build complex facilities.
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Still maintained? Yes: 519 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v160.7 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
Mindustry quick facts
- Health score
- 88/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 29,534
- Last commit
- 8 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v160.7, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "The automation tower defense RTS, written in Java."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Mindustry scores 88/100, #3 of 20 in Games: 519 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v160.7, 22 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 29,534 stars add 17.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
519 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v160.7 released 22 days ago
- Stars 17.9 / 20
30k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 519
- Last 90 days
- 1,939
- Last 12 months
- 8 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #3 of 20 tools in Games by health , between Razzia (#2) and Luanti (#4) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Java |
| Latest release | v160.7 · 22 days ago |
| Stars | 29,534 |
| Open issues | 22 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | Anuken/Mindustry ↗ |
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Mindustry: common questions
Is Mindustry still maintained?
Mindustry had 519 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 8 days ago; the latest tagged release, v160.7, is from 22 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.