Hacker Remix

Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a

44 points by Wasserpuncher 3 days ago | 24 comments

Borgz 16 hours ago

There is a 2020 video with a Minecraft developer talking about this testing infrastructure: https://youtu.be/vXaWOJTCYNg

maxbaines 17 hours ago

This is notable as Game Tests are now available in the game.

skerit 17 hours ago

Very cool, though I do wish we had access to their suite of tests.

rauli_ 14 hours ago

As a Linux user I'm grateful that they are still developing the Java version of Minecraft.

zimpenfish 17 hours 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...)

nottorp 17 hours 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...

worldsayshi 17 hours 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.

nottorp 16 hours 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.

Filligree 15 hours ago

And mod developers would heave a sigh of relief. The version treadmill is the hardest part of maintaining a mod; everything bitrots.

Vilian 17 minutes ago

You don't need to maintain anything if it don't exist, like mods support in bedrock edition

saalweachter 15 hours ago

I mean, Bedrock/Java are already pretty thoroughly forked?

nottorp 14 hours 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.

zimpenfish 11 hours 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!)

nottorp 8 hours 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 …