Why not go open source? What are they so afraid of, given anyone can now see the source code by using a simple tool?
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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So, what's the catch? Surely Microsoft and Mojang didn't just suddenly become good?
The monkeypaw says they will stop updates for the java edition or release a new version that doesn't work on the java edition.
They probably see how many sales are generated from the free work done by modders though. If someone wants to come along and do for free the thing you might have to actually pay designers, developers, artists and all the support staff for and they still need to pay you to play it, you'd be foolish not to encourage the exploitation of free labor.
Call me ignorant, if this happened and it brought a new golden era of modding (1.7.10 style) where everyone's playing the same version I'd be maybe the happiest player ever.
Modders backporting content is nothing new, hell, they even brought the mobs that didn't make the cut from those stupid mob votes to life.
Let modding become the new updates, fuck it. At this point they'd likely be better realised than Microsoft's efforts.
Young generations and mobile players are on bedrock
Everyone else plays Java where you can easily self-host a server
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Havent they been making changes to help mod/datapack development for a while?
Modding is such a big part of the game, helping it would get more people playing the game
They made "datapack" which is a way of playing with mods without having to use third-party mod loaders like Forge and Fabric but (don't quote me on this as I'm not a mod developer) it's not as powerful compare to the mod loaders.
Yup. Mods can change basically EVERYTHING, compared to datapacks being able to change only what mojang wants.
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I guess it just doesn't make sense to obfuscate it when mods in general runs the Minecraft community in turn making more profit to Mojang/Microsoft. My other suspicion is potential competition. There is this game called Vintage Story which kinda directly competes with Minecraft seems gaining ground and was built to be moddable from the start.
Luanti eating on their turf.
I doubt microsoft even knows what luanti is
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I look forward to several critical CVE being discovered like log4j
Unironically, me too. They're there now, waiting to be discovered. We can find them now on our terms or be surprised by them later.
Wasn't log4j originally found by 2b2t players, then used maliciously and reported later on, then going onto get fixed by every major server framework like bukkit, paper, fabric, and more?
Nah, it was found sometime before november 24 2021, publicly disclosed in december 9 2021, and only used by 2b2t players on december 10 2021.
Not only do I think this will generate a fair number of CVE's, I think there will be a lot of optimization of the code going on.
Look at what happened with OpenOffice a few years back -- the Oracle buyout of Sun Microsystems forced the forking of OpenOffice to LibreOffice -- during which the new Dev team took the time cleanup and refactor the code. This resulted in a suite that was about 10 percent smaller, and removed a bunch of redundant things (like multiple copies of icons).
I bet we see something similar with Minecraft -- even if it can't be an "authorized" version.
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This paired with the bedrock gdk release and changes to the file path so that we don't need to use iobit unlocker to mod rtx files is some hella good vibes
Oh I see it’s that time of the year where Mojang gives the community a bone after stomping on them the rest of the year.
Anyways as someone who has worked on Java projects extensively since 2020, very little will actually change from this. The main problem of Mojang’s asinine version numbering will continue to be a problem for any modding, server, building and resource pack projects past 1.19.
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Can't say I saw that coming, particularly after Microsoft bought them. Nice to have a surprise be pleasant once in a while.
The most profitable decision for MS is to leave the golden goose alone.
Absolute cowards. Won't even release the comments.
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Nice I just got back into all the mods 10 last night
Do you play on a server?
I haven't found fun modded 'communities' since like 1.7.10. All Forge modded servers I've tried either seem to be 'commercial' servers with zero render distance and basically no community, or ghost towns.
Every Minecraft update just makes me hum "Where's the modding API" again.
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