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by terribleperson 270 days ago
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.
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accrual 270 days ago
> Bedrock might be more popular, but I think there is a large community with absolutely zero interest in ever moving away from Java.

Yes, exactly. It seems the demographic for Bedrock tends towards kids because it's supported on tablets. IME the demographic for Java is either older kids or adults or people with interest in modpacks, which is a lot of people. All the major YouTubers who have run worlds for challenges for years are all on Java.

Whenever someone in my group asks to play some MC, there's no "Bedrock or Java?" question, it's just Java every time.

The only major thing Bedrock has right now that Java doesn't is the new stock shaders, but I assume that is coming to Java soon.

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Kerbiter 268 days ago
> The only major thing Bedrock has right now that Java doesn't is the new stock shaders, but I assume that is coming to Java soon.

RealismCraft 2.0 would like to have a word with you. And it's paid.

https://youtu.be/s3IiifuzjgU

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CalRobert 270 days ago
The kids all seem to use tablets or windows with bedrock though, my own are the odd ones out with Java on Linux.
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Imustaskforhelp 270 days ago
A lot of windows users use java on windows too.

I do think that I have yet to see a bedrock player on windows as compared to java player on windows & I have been playing minecraft for so long and joined so many discord communities of minecraft related as well and that's my experience.

Java is really peak minecraft, with modpacks as well. You should try out prismlauncher, its open source and works quite smoothly on linux and you can try a lot of modpacks which the bedrock players can't play.

Fabuously Optimized is a must have modpack given how efficient it can make minecraft / give fps boosts

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terribleperson 269 days ago
Prism launcher is a great piece of software, takes a lot of the pain out of modded minecraft.
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squigz 270 days ago
Distant Horizons is awesome. Too bad my computer really does not agree :P
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terribleperson 270 days ago
It's a bit hard on the CPU for sure, but running a server and pregeneration both help.
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Gigachad 270 days ago
Tbh bedrock natively supports massive render distances. Not as far as distant horizons but way way further than Java edition.
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