Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a

minecraft.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–28 of 28 posts

Re: Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a

#21

Post by nottorp »

saalweachter wrote: post #18
worldsayshi wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I think every java private server admin has nightmares where they wake up one day and read that java minecraft is being discontinued... If that happened I have a feeling Minecraft would fork with an open source rewrite taking over on the java side.

I mean, Bedrock/Java are already pretty thoroughly forked?

No one who plays on private servers cares about bedrock. There are just too many helper plugins on Java.

And I don’t think bedrock is a fork, more like a reimplementation. Too many subtle differences.

Re: Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a

#25

Post by zimpenfish »

nottorp wrote: post #21
saalweachter wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, Bedrock/Java are already pretty thoroughly forked?

No one who plays on private servers cares about bedrock. There are just too many helper plugins on Java. And I don’t think bedrock is a fork, more like a reimplementation. Too many subtle differences.

> And I don’t think bedrock is a fork, more like a reimplementation.

Bedrock is the C++ rewrite they did for supporting lower-resourced systems like phones and consoles. Which is why it doesn't run horribly like the Java version does but also why it has a whole bunch of differences from the Java version that may or may not be relevant (lack of mods being the primary one!)

Re: Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a

#26

Post by nottorp »

zimpenfish wrote: post #25
nottorp wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one who plays on private servers cares about bedrock. There are just too many helper plugins on Java. And I don’t think bedrock is a fork, more like a reimplementation. Too many subtle differences.

> And I don’t think bedrock is a fork, more like a reimplementation. Bedrock is the C++ rewrite they did for supporting lower-resourced systems like phones and consoles. Which is why it doesn't run horribly like the Java version does but also why it has a whole bunch of differences from the Java version that may or may not be relevant (lack of mods being the primary one!)

And they reduced the world update size drastically in the name of draw distance.

I want my farms to keep running while I build …

Re: Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a

#27

Post by Vilian »

Filligree wrote: post #17
worldsayshi wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I think every java private server admin has nightmares where they wake up one day and read that java minecraft is being discontinued... If that happened I have a feeling Minecraft would fork with an open source rewrite taking over on the java side.

And mod developers would heave a sigh of relief. The version treadmill is the hardest part of maintaining a mod; everything bitrots.

You don't need to maintain anything if it don't exist, like mods support in bedrock edition

Re: Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a

#28

Post by Filligree »

Vilian wrote: post #27
Filligree wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And mod developers would heave a sigh of relief. The version treadmill is the hardest part of maintaining a mod; everything bitrots.

You don't need to maintain anything if it don't exist, like mods support in bedrock edition

The most-recent Minecraft version would continue to exist, and by the looks of Starlight and such would continue to be improved.
Post reply on HN