Minecraft: Java Edition has been obfuscated since its release. This obfuscation meant that people couldn’t see our source code. Instead, everything was scrambled – and those who wanted to mod Java Edition had to try and piece together what every class and function in the code did.

Modding is at the heart of Java Edition – and obfuscation makes modding harder. We’re excited about this change to remove obfuscation, as it should make it quicker and easier for modders to create and improve mods. Now you won’t have to untangle tricky code or deal with unclear names. What’s more, de-bugging will become more straightforward, and crash logs will actually be readable!

surprisingly fantastic and consumer friendly move from mojang, good on them

  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    1241·
    3 days 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.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      If that happens, the modding scene would boom incredibly

      And you’d have some smart nerds who take it upon them to keep updating the game much better than Mojang ever could.

      It would become open source almost

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      57·
      3 days ago

      Call me ignorant, if this happened and it brought a new golden era of modding (1.7.10 style) where everyone’s playing the same version I’d be maybe the happiest player ever.
      Modders backporting content is 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. At this point they’d likely be better realised than Microsoft’s efforts.

      • CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        1.7.10

        Y’all can try and pull it from my cold, dead hands.

        I should boot up the ol modpack and see what it do—oh, right, it crashes 🥹

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      Young generations and mobile players are on bedrock

      Everyone else plays Java where you can easily self-host a server

    • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days 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.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Complete with microtransactions and a horrible lack of customizability! Seriously I just wanted to play some Minecraft in RTX but you literally can’t use the nVidia RTX stuff outside of the demo maps, otherwise you have to purchase a different texture pack with real money. And basically everything in the Bedrock Marketplace costs real money, and very little is free.

          Meanwhile Java edition doesn’t have any paid content in part because the original Minecraft license specified anyone was free to make mods and custom content but were explicitly restricted from charging money for it