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by zimpenfish 520 days ago
Yearning for the day when they post a snapshot which is actually optimised and we don't have to install 20 mods just to get adequate performance.

(Difficult to sell merch or lootboxes on that back of that which means it'll never happen...)
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nottorp 520 days ago
This does sound like some faint semblance of official support for java modders?

Which is shocking tbh. I think every java private server admin has nightmares where they wake up one day and read that java minecraft is being discontinued...

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worldsayshi 520 days ago
>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.

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nottorp 520 days ago
More likely most will just stick to their binaries for the latest version. Most MC players I know want to play the game not hack it.
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Filligree 520 days ago
And mod developers would heave a sigh of relief. The version treadmill is the hardest part of maintaining a mod; everything bitrots.
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Vilian 519 days ago
You don't need to maintain anything if it don't exist, like mods support in bedrock edition
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Filligree 519 days ago
The most-recent Minecraft version would continue to exist, and by the looks of Starlight and such would continue to be improved.
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saalweachter 520 days ago
I mean, Bedrock/Java are already pretty thoroughly forked?
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nottorp 520 days ago
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.

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zimpenfish 520 days ago
> 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!)

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nottorp 520 days ago
And they reduced the world update size drastically in the name of draw distance.

I want my farms to keep running while I build …

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