Mindustry – Harness Automation and Tower Defense in One Game
From the repo · “The automation tower defense RTS”
Build automations like adding new customers to a database and sending welcome emails with a free tower defense game.
"A founder wants to quickly onboard new customers. She uses Mindustry to automate adding new Stripe customers to a Notion database and sends a welcome email via Resend. With Mindustry's ease of use, she completes these tasks in minutes, streamlining her workflow."
- •When you need a game to understand and visualize automated systems and tower defense strategies
- •When you want to learn Java programming through a engaging and interactive game
- •When you need a free and open-source alternative to commercial tower defense games
java -jar mindustry.jar --map example_map --waves 10 --difficulty hard
Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.
Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mindustry && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/mindustry/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/mindustry/SKILL.mdOpens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.
Mindustry – Harness Automation and Tower Defense in One Game is a very large Java project (~164k lines across 871 code files, plus 10 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, GPL-3.0 license, has a test suite.
- 1README.mdStart here — what it does and how to install it
- 2core/build.gradleInside core/ — the main logic begins here
Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.
Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mindustry && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/mindustry/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/mindustry/SKILL.mdOpens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.
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