Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
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Re: Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
#2I think it's amazing to have a massive commercially successful game such as Minecraft give the fans the ability to be very liberal with what they can do with it. Now we have open-source re-implementaions that are pretty close to vanilla!
Re: Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
#3I think it's amazing to have a massive commercially successful game such as Minecraft give the fans the ability to be very liberal with what they can do with it. Now we have open-source re-implementaions that are pretty close to vanilla!
It was like that until 2012. Ever since then they've been tightening down further and further.
Re: Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
#4I think it's amazing to have a massive commercially successful game such as Minecraft give the fans the ability to be very liberal with what they can do with it. Now we have open-source re-implementaions that are pretty close to vanilla!
MS is slowly killing off Java so they can push Bedrock (much less flexible) on everyone though. And all my daughter's friends use Bedrock :-\. I have a server with GeyserMC running to let them play together but it definitely isn't what it once was.
Re: Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
#5I think it's amazing to have a massive commercially successful game such as Minecraft give the fans the ability to be very liberal with what they can do with it. Now we have open-source re-implementaions that are pretty close to vanilla!
MS is slowly killing off Java so they can push Bedrock (much less flexible) on everyone though. And all my daughter's friends use Bedrock :-\. I have a server with GeyserMC running to let them play together but it definitely isn't what it once was.
Bedrock might be more popular, but I think there is a large community with absolutely zero interest in ever moving away from Java.
I will never go back to playing Minecraft without Distant Horizons after experiencing it, so Bedrock is absolutely not an option for me unless they added real LOD features natively.
Re: Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
MS is slowly killing off Java so they can push Bedrock (much less flexible) on everyone though. And all my daughter's friends use Bedrock :-\. I have a server with GeyserMC running to let them play together but it definitely isn't what it once was.
Bedrock might be more popular, but I think there is a large community with absolutely zero interest in ever moving away from Java. I will never go back to playing Minecraft without Distant Horizons after experiencing it, so Bedrock is absolutely not an option for me unless they added real LOD features natively.
The kids all seem to use tablets or windows with bedrock though, my own are the odd ones out with Java on Linux.
Re: Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
#7I'd recommend Minetest+some full game instead of a reimplementation from an older version.
I know it's not the same; but some full games for Minetest are close enough and they will run on really old machines much faster than this reimplementation.
Re: Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
#8I think it's amazing to have a massive commercially successful game such as Minecraft give the fans the ability to be very liberal with what they can do with it. Now we have open-source re-implementaions that are pretty close to vanilla!
MS is slowly killing off Java so they can push Bedrock (much less flexible) on everyone though. And all my daughter's friends use Bedrock :-\. I have a server with GeyserMC running to let them play together but it definitely isn't what it once was.
During ramblings about new Minecraft jeb_ recently said that java is not going to be sunsetted, or at least that's what I understood.
Of course the course of Microsoft and jeb_ might be different and he might get pushed towards some decisions later. The problem is that kids nowadays don't use computers. They use phones and tablets. For me Minecraft experience on phone is awful but there are many young generations that consider it native way of playing games
Re: Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
#9I'd recommend Minetest+some full game instead of a reimplementation from an older version. I know it's not the same; but some full games for Minetest are close enough and they will run on really old machines much faster than this reimplementation.
Minetest (renamed luanti) is a fantastic platform to introduce concepts of programming to kids. We have been moding with my kids and had the best time using blender and doing some lua.
Re: Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
#10I think it's amazing to have a massive commercially successful game such as Minecraft give the fans the ability to be very liberal with what they can do with it. Now we have open-source re-implementaions that are pretty close to vanilla!
Minecraft is wierd because all that amazing modding that is done is in spite of mojang not because of them.
I have not played minecraft in a few years but I think nothing has changed. Mojang, even pre microsoft, has never provided any sort of modding support. I grew up on quake where ID would give you the game code and tools necessary to make mods. Mojang gave nothing. modding on minecraft involved decompiling the bytecode, dealing with the terrible symbols the decompiler gave you then recompiling it back into a jar. It was ugly and unpleasant. later the bigger efforts produced some tooling and libraries to make this better, but mojang had no part in this.
So minecraft is wierd, one of the most modded game in existence, yet the developers have provided no mod support.