[somat]

The impressive part is how big modding is in minecraft despite Mojang never providing a mod interface, I don't know it may be different now but the general route for a long time was decompile the java byte code make your mod and recompile. There were a number of heroic teams that made mod interfaces out of this but a whole lot of nothing from the actual devs. I came off the quake modding scene and was a bit horrified by the whole situation, with quake they gave you the game code, map compilers and later the source to the engine.

[tech234a]

They removed obfuscation last year: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation...

[burnte]

> with quake they gave you the game code, map compilers and later the source to the engine

And even before the source you had Quake C exposed! Quake 2 was even easier to mod.