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There's certainly a standalone minecraft variant, with full modding capability as a first class citizen, modeled after `forge`, with an asset store modeled after `curseforge` or the `feed the beast launcher` of yesteryear. Vanilla minecraft no longer appeals to me whereas the hardcore modpacks are ridiculously addictive. Think factorio meets minecraft.
There's certainly a standalone minecraft variant, with full modding capability as a first class citizen, modeled after `forge`, with an asset store modeled after `curseforge` or the `feed the beast launcher` of yesteryear. Vanilla minecraft no longer appeals to me whereas the hardcore modpacks are ridiculously addictive. Think factorio meets minecraft.
Do you have recommendations for modern "factorio meets Minecraft" modpacks? The more hardcore and complex the better. I am very out of the loop with Minecraft, not having played in quite a few years. Meanwhile, I have been getting into factorio... but the thought of going back to my Minecraft roots is appealing
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Minecraft Java can be run fully offline without their launcher, and servers can be run with authentication disabled. There's no need to rewrite the whole game ...
As far as I could tell, it can't be installed offline or without a MS account. There's no offline installer. If a rewrite corrects this, that's a huge win
Didn't maintain it or anything, but another member of the community took the lessons learned from my teardown of it and I think polished it up. Needed a pick me up project at the time. Was around 1.14-ish I think? Also helped them get sound working in Forge.
Found one of the threads, though this either wasn't one of the ones with the gorey details, or they probably snipped the posts as they may not have been super comfortable with me laying out how to vivisect Microsoft's shiny new acquisition for people. I was in a rough headspace back then.
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I wouldn't describe Minecraft as being unusually unfriendly to open source. Compared to most games, the company treats the mod devs pretty well (nobody's getting sued, they released decompilation symbols to make life easier, the whole thing's in Java), and there's a healthy collaboration scene among the mod developers, most of whom release their mods as open source projects these days (with a couple of notable except…
There are two things called “minecraft”, and one of them is not written in java, is much more prickly about mods, and iirc has a significantly larger playerbase.
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There are two things called “minecraft”, and one of them is not written in java, is much more prickly about mods, and iirc has a significantly larger playerbase.
Bedrock has more players?
I mean, I've seen people talking about Minecraft Java on Android and you can certainly run it on the Stream Deck, but both of these tasks are not something the average user would do
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I have done something similar for another game. It started as a fun curious idea to understand more about programming and mechanics in games, but became very quickly extremely addictive. Paired with big personal problems at that time it provided me with an excellent opportunity to escape and basically not leave my home until I was done. And I regret none of it. I learned much much much more about engineering than I w…
Is that something you have shared online (or would share here)?
I’m a bit short on time and can’t dig into the code, but maybe somebody can answer this for this or the original version: In what data structure are the blocks in Minecraft actually stored? And by which mechanism are they quickly retrieved to check which block the player was hitting? I would think the model partitions the space with an octree and their position jumps from parent node to parent node. Then at each bit…
A bit of searching implies that they are not stored as Octrees due to "performance reasons": > [...] To understand why octrees are slower for Minecraft games, it isn’t really necessary to invoke such exotic explanations. The underlying reason for the worse performance is purely algorithmic: each time an arbitrary voxel is touched, either when iterating or performing a random access, it is necessary to traverse to the…
This is great. It would be cool to do this in Rust and run on WASM.
This was the most innocent comment ever.
Is there an anti-Rust sentiment?
Is it so bad to say something was a good idea, it makes me think of trying other things too.
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There are two things called “minecraft”, and one of them is not written in java, is much more prickly about mods, and iirc has a significantly larger playerbase.
Bedrock has more players?
Most adults and definitely most content on YouTube is on Java.
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Do you have recommendations for modern "factorio meets Minecraft" modpacks? The more hardcore and complex the better. I am very out of the loop with Minecraft, not having played in quite a few years. Meanwhile, I have been getting into factorio... but the thought of going back to my Minecraft roots is appealing
GregTech: New Horizons. Pretty sure between the very active developer community they've built up and the incredibly deep and broad tech progression, new end-game content is being added faster than players could possibly reach it. Got pretty in-depth quest tree to keep pointed in the right direction.
That’s the level of dedication there.