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

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    413·
    12 days ago

    Be nice if Minecraft was released on Steam so Linux users didn’t have to emulate an Android device just to play it.

    TIL Java works for Linux, as others mentioned I was mainly describing Bedrock as friends/family have already transitioned over to it.

    • belsedar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      13 days ago

      Are you talking about the Bedrock edition or something? Because there are plenty of Java edition launchers available that even perform better than the Windows version

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          The MultiMC dev came out as a raging anti LGBT, right? That’s why it was forked into Prism (hence the name “Prism”)

          Man… there’s been a lot of drama in the MC modding scene.

          EDIT:

          As pointed out, this is wrong. MultiMC was involved in a separate controversy over distribution, and PolyMC had a dev kick most of the main ones out of the repo, and bigotry was involved in the later.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      Genuinely curious; why play Bedrock instead of Java Edition when Bedrock is so much trouble on linux? RTX?

      EDIT: In hindsight, if this is to play with friends/family stuck on Bedrock, that makes perfect sense. Translation layers might not be as good as I thought.

      • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        13 days ago

        They’re talking about Bedrock edition, unless there’s some new method of running it that I’m not aware of. Minecraft Bedrock is available as a UWP app through Microsoft Store, which is only available on Windows, phones and consoles. It is not compatible with Steam, Wine, Proton or Linux in any way, The only known way to run Minecraft Bedrock on Linux is to install the Android App for Minecraft Bedrock in an Android emulator, there is a wrapper called MCPLauncher for this purpose.

        Alternatively, you can use a translation layer like GeyserMC to use Java edition in a way that’s interoperable with Bedrock, but the Bedrock edition itself is not currently available on Linux.

          • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            13 days ago

            That’s fair, I hate it too. Java is way better, mine is so heavily modded I can barely stand vanilla Minecraft anymore. The only reason I know what a shitshow Bedrock on Linux is, is because my niece was at first only allowed to play on Switch and that’s only properly compatible with Bedrock, and she likes to show me around her worlds that she works on. I eventually convinced her parents to give her access to something that would let her play Java instead and since then we’ve only looked back at Bedrock once, and she was disappointed too haha.

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      13 days ago

      Not emulation but It technically run in a virtual machine on all platforms that run MC java