I guess it’s 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 suspension 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.
Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So, what’s the catch? Surely Microsoft and Mojang didn’t just suddenly become good?
wabafee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 8 minutes ago
Exactly. Community bindings do exist and are used over the official bindings already, and I think the source code obfuscation is just an annoyance by now.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Havent they been making changes to help mod/datapack development?
Modding is such a big part of the game, helping it would get more people playing the game
SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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.
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Yup. Mods can change basically EVERYTHING, compared to datapacks being able to change only what mojang wants.
Xylight@lemdro.id 11 hours ago
Not sure if it’s just what they want, it’s mostly that Minecraft’s spaghetti code had a lot of things hardcoded. Lately they’ve been changing a lot of things to be data-driven, and able to be changed by datapacks
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wonder how good AI is at deobfuscating code. It seems like the kind of thing it might be good at.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
With how bad it is at writing it, I’m guessing similarly bad. It’ll do something, but odds are it introduces a ton of errors that you then have to track down. That’s the best case. Worst case, it just creates something totally different that looks similar to the input but doesn’t do the same thing.
barryamelton@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Luanti eating on their turf.
simple@piefed.social 1 day ago
I doubt microsoft even knows what luanti is
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 1 day ago
Whats that?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It’s the platform that used to be Mine test, apparently
pipe01@programming.dev 23 hours ago
Lol no
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I said basically the same thing and got downvoted for it.
Hopefully the catch is nothing, but you can never be too sure.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s a 20 year old game going into abandonware mode. This is the nicest way for them to do that.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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Its 16, not 20, the earliest version “Cave Game Tech Test” was in May 2009.
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They’re still actively pushing updates, a really big one is scheduled for the holiday season. Additional biomes and mini-bosses were added last year with structures hinting at development plans for a 4th dimension. The lighting engine is being actively redone.
Minecraft is absolutely not gearing down into abandonware mode.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And they finally added copper items 😂
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kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 day ago
I would advance: trying to keep the brand alive against the hidden giant of Roblox.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 day ago
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.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Call me ignorant, if this happened and it brought a new golden era of modding (1.7.10) style golden era where everyone’s playing the same version I’d be maybe the happiest player ever.
Modders backporting content wouldn’t be 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.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Young generations and mobile players are on bedrock
Everyone else plays Java where you can easily self-host a server
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Or a Bethesda style creation club is coming.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They already do that for bedrock.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I was thinking the same thing. If the de-obfuscation tools are already out there, it might cost them more money to keep that layer. Their developers also have to use it to read the crash logs and the like from the sounds of it. Less layers = less maintenance = less cost. More mods = keeps the game relevant.