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Minecraft died when Microsoft bought it.

when they added survival mechanics for no reason

Fortnite killed it you dumbfuck. That shit has everything stupid modern retard kids crave. Big open world, mining, shooting, skin-tight outfits, funny dances, cartoonish TF2-like aesthetics, Disney cameos, etc.

I cant go back to vanilla after playing the 1.7.10 pack on tekkit

>>15388562

Oh, did they release the ocean update?

>>15388590

>Fortnite killed it

Pretty much. Minecraft wasn't a game for the kids that played it, it was a social media platform.

>>15388567

MODS

>>15388562

i played Hexxit for a couple of months, then i played "Attack of the B-team" for a couple of months, and then i quit

I never quit cuz I never started at all. Feels good.

But I do think that markus persson's depression came from being unable to produce another game even half as successful as minecraft. His entire legacy will solely be about his lego ripoff game. Caller's bane failed. Cobalt failed. His smaller titles don't matter for shit. His company was stolen by microsoft. All microsoft makes now is minecraft: sjw edition. How depressing is that?

>>15388634

Lucky you is.

I dropped it when they went with the dumb infinite world memery. The game used to not be a fucking resource hog.

>>15389331

Being able to run it on a toaster was fun.

Are there any complete plugins for Minetest yet that get close to providing an actual game? Not just individual plugins, but something more like a monolithic one that provides a more complete experience. Also, how's the development on the engine coming along?

>>15388634

>how depressing is it that he made a game that was a huge hit and is now set for multiple lifetimes?

>>15389382

It sounds like you want mechanics with more depth or some other kind of progression. I don't think there are currently any mods that provide that.

Engine development is active. The closest new major feature would be client-side scripting, but development of that seems to be lagging. The main missing piece is the server being able to send code for the client to run. There was a version of client side mods that allowed players to supply their own scripts, but it was disabled because the only use case was cheating.

There have been various minor feature additions. Some recentish things that come to mind:

- Mod API for raycasting

- Mod API for a key-value store that exists on each player and each mod

- Mod API for setting tool damage, dig speed, etc. dynamically

- Mod API for "Global textures" on nodes (UVs come from world coordinates)

- Integrated mod package manager with official mod repository

- Some mapgen stuff

- Zoom stuff

- Visual stuff for particles and entities

- Don't remember what else

Most of these are only available in the development version.

Also various performance / QoL improvements / tweaks, and the leading 0 is being removed from the version numbers.

by the way, the old minetest server and the wizard test server is still online

>>15388590

Minecraft's player base was never supposed to be little kids. And the only ones who didn't stop playing it YEARS ago aren't the kids, either. Perhaps Fortnite might kill the console and mobile editions (Bedrock et al), but good riddance to bad rubbish, in that case.

>>15388608

>did they release the ocean update?

Yes, and it's actually fun.

>>15388562

>At what point did you quit?

back in 2011 around beta 1.3

>>15388562

When I graduated high school

>>15388562

Last I checked, Modding stopped at the 1.12 version since Forge isn't upgrading to the newer versions of Minecraft due to how they work.

Something about changing from Java to C or some such. Theorically it improves performance massively but it also means modding is kind of impossible from what I read, at least the kind of modding we've seen up to this point.

Minecraft is still waiting for that famed API that would allow modders to go nuts with the game and solve lots of incompatibilities, but it's never come out, not with Microsoft owning the game.

It's actually amazing how the community arranged itself and created several standards with units for liquids, power, etc and some of the mods are pretty amazing on their own. But if there's no other version of Minecraft, if there's no API or even open source code, there's never gonna be evolution here so stagnation will settle in.

Just be happy you have Thaumcraft, I guess.