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by wtbob 3744 days ago
What a fascinating idea. Looks pretty cool — if I ever get back into vanilla Minecraft I'll give it a shot (I've been 100% modpacks for a few years now). Any plans to support some of the more popular modpacks? I can imagine that the server costs for that could get brutal though.

These days I'm thinking of getting into minetest (http://www.minetest.net/), but the mod scene is pretty primitive there.
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asiekierka 3743 days ago
The Minetest API is itself a bit more primitive, as it's server-side-only Lua scripting as opposed to essentially hacking the whole game engine inside out with zero security involved.

As for modpacks, they add a lot of RAM usage especially to the whole thing. Minecraft 1.9 also made it possible (theoretically, that is it's possible in the code and probably used by Realms) to run multiple servers in the same Minecraft server instance, saving a lot of overhead on the block definitions, classes, JVMs, etc.

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Pungea 3742 days ago
Where did you learn that Minecraft 1.9 allows for multiple servers in one instance?
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viet_nguyen 3743 days ago
I'm trying to build something so minimal and work with existing Minecraft software, easy to install, easy to upgrade as Minecraft upgrade, and can sustain the architecture for years to come. (instead of adding modpacks, heavy plugins, etc..)

Minetest is pretty cool, but it isn't really what I'm trying to achieve.

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