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[LeoLeonardoIII]

Shall we do a Bay12 one?

I would play in a vanilla server. I guess I would play in a modded server.

[Aklyon]

Walls/slabs/stairs should be available for every block type IMO, but that'll never get added so RIP.

Which is more likely: This, mod api, or quickly-updating big mods?

[LeoLeonardoIII]

More likely is Microsoft packaging and selling expansions that mimic big mods, which are always kept compatible with the main game, while constantly putting out mod-breaking core updates to destroy the modding community. "Why make something yourself if you can buy it from us?"

[KingofstarrySkies]

I... Doubt it'll get that bad.

[Geltor]

I stopped playing around 3 years ago and have a question:

Has server mod compatibility improved? When I played, the only way to play a mod on multiplayer was if the mod was specifically designed around it or you had server-side mods which used things like Bukkit.
I'm asking this because I want to play with my little brother and would like to install mods of high caliber. Is it possible or is it still super tedious?

[Aklyon]

Everything is basically always a mp mod now, more or less.
The tediousness depends on whether what you want is already bundled up in a modpack or not.

[Rose]

Also from 1.8 onwards, I believe, there's no singleplayer anymore, so mods have to be multiplayer.

[miauw62]

More likely is Microsoft packaging and selling expansions that mimic big mods, which are always kept compatible with the main game, while constantly putting out mod-breaking core updates to destroy the modding community. "Why make something yourself if you can buy it from us?"

im alpha, so legally they have to give them all to me for free :^]

[Geltor]

Everything is basically always a mp mod now, more or less.
The tediousness depends on whether what you want is already bundled up in a modpack or not.

What? Really? How does that work exactly? Is it good or bad?

I had a mod once where you could build these drills and cranes to mine for you. That, and one that added vehicles and misc machinery. Do you mean to tell me you could just download them and start a world, then have players join and it will work just like that???

[TheBiggerFish]

More likely is Microsoft packaging and selling expansions that mimic big mods, which are always kept compatible with the main game, while constantly putting out mod-breaking core updates to destroy the modding community. "Why make something yourself if you can buy it from us?"

im alpha, so legally they have to give them all to me for free :^]

What now?

[Aklyon]

The minecraft alpha description reads as such.

[TheBiggerFish]

Hmm.  I guess that vanished by Beta.

[Niveras]

More likely is Microsoft packaging and selling expansions that mimic big mods, which are always kept compatible with the main game, while constantly putting out mod-breaking core updates to destroy the modding community. "Why make something yourself if you can buy it from us?"

I... Doubt it'll get that bad.

Probably not, but oh god, I had a terrible vision. With the UWP and Windows Store shenanigans detailed in that other thread, you know what I expect? I expect Microsoft will finally port Minecraft away from Java... and then put it behind their Universal Windows Platform. It might even include API, just that it will be integrated into the app instead of the hackfest that modding is today (meaning, also as I expect and as I fear, the only modding permitted will be in the manner exposed through that API).

And it just might work too, because Minecraft is by far the most popular "game" Microsoft owns right now. And not just among "gamers" but among children. Someone else I know fears that Microsoft might clue in to that fact and try to exploit that popularity, making Minecraft Microsoft's "Super Mario Brothers." (Whether that's a good or bad thing, /shrug.) The only reason that putting Minecraft behind UWP would fail would be because everyone interested in Minecraft pretty much has it already; but on the other hand, if you can run the same worlds from your PC/tablet/phone on a whim, maybe there are some more purchases to be had there.

That said, even if they tried, there would probably continue to be a java "fork" based on their last official update.

More likely is Microsoft packaging and selling expansions that mimic big mods, which are always kept compatible with the main game, while constantly putting out mod-breaking core updates to destroy the modding community. "Why make something yourself if you can buy it from us?"

im alpha, so legally they have to give them all to me for free :^]

All they'd have to do is say "Were discontinuing work on Minecraft, but there's a Minecraft 2 now! $40 USD for the base game, check back every six months for new expansion content!." Could also tie in to moving off JAVA and/or into UWP. (I will stress that I have no evidence that they will do that, but rather it is just the kind of moneygrubbing I expect.)

And that's assuming that the original alpha clause legally survives the transition of ownership; I'm not a lawyer, but it probably should, if the binding party was Mojang, with Mojang still being the owner of Minecraft.

[Orange Wizard]

I can't really see MC2 being a thing. It'd need to have a significant draw for people to shell out tonnes of cash, and "more of the same but now you have to pay for it" isn't going to draw a huge userbase.

[Aklyon]

I can see them trying it, but I don't see them succeeding in it.