--- title: The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer | daily.dev description: The developer behind Teardown shares the full story of implementing multiplayer in a game with a completely destructible, physics-driven voxel world. The post... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-unlikely-story-of-teardown-multiplayer-jhb5m8xty twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer | daily.dev og:description: The developer behind Teardown shares the full story of implementing multiplayer in a game with a completely destructible, physics-driven voxel world. The post... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-unlikely-story-of-teardown-multiplayer-jhb5m8xty og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jhb5M8XTy.png og:image:alt: The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The developer behind Teardown shares the full story of implementing multiplayer in a game with a completely destructible, physics-driven voxel world. The post covers the core technical challenges: achieving deterministic destruction using fixed-point integer math and a command stream, combining reliable and unreliable network channels, handling scripting and modding compatibility, synchronizing in-game terminals via delta-compressed draw commands, a painful multi-month codebase merge, backwards API compatibility, and a late-join solution based on replaying the deterministic command log. The author reflects that the result is not elegant but represents enormous engineering effort, and hints at a cleaner approach being explored in a new engine. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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