> Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source.
The condition never happened, so not really. However, I don't see Mojang ever doing that under Microsoft; unless it were to sunset Minecraft Java, and just maybe.
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...
Last time I used the internal Minecraft testing library I had a problem where it was basically blocked in release builds and you had to write a bunch of fabric mixins to overwrite the feature flag, then on top of that there was a problem with the structure blocks. It could be fabric itself adding its own code in there. I don't really remember the details.
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Moved on to Luanti[0].
0. https://www.luanti.org/
https://blog.luanti.org/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/
> Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source.
The condition never happened, so not really. However, I don't see Mojang ever doing that under Microsoft; unless it were to sunset Minecraft Java, and just maybe.
(Difficult to sell merch or lootboxes on that back of that which means it'll never happen...)
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...
If that happened I have a feeling Minecraft would fork with an open source rewrite taking over on the java side.
Will also come in handy for Java modders.