maxbaines 16 hours ago

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

  • skerit 15 hours ago

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

rauli_ 12 hours ago

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

zimpenfish 16 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 16 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 15 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 15 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 14 hours ago

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

      • saalweachter 13 hours ago

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

snvzz 15 hours ago

Hopes for Minecraft becoming open source are long dead.

Moved on to Luanti[0].

0. https://www.luanti.org/

neals 15 hours ago

What are all this testing features for?

  • emsign 13 hours ago

    Quick and easy see-all-at-one-glance test world to see if a new feature breaks any import game mechanics.

    Will also come in handy for Java modders.

0xd3af 15 hours ago

Great, now even Minecraft wants me to write tests.

imtringued 16 hours ago

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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