There is a 2020 video with a Minecraft developer talking about this testing infrastructure: https://youtu.be/vXaWOJTCYNg
This is notable as Game Tests are now available in the game.
Very cool, though I do wish we had access to their suite of tests.
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...)
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...
>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.
And mod developers would heave a sigh of relief. The version treadmill is the hardest part of maintaining a mod; everything bitrots.
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.
I mean, Bedrock/Java are already pretty thoroughly forked?
Hopes for Minecraft becoming open source are long dead.
Moved on to Luanti[0].
Oh wow, did not realize Minetest rebranded. I guess to avoid legal troubles?
Was it supposed to be?
https://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecr...
> Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source.
The condition never happened, so not really. However, I don't see Mojang ever doing that under Microsoft; unless it were to sunset Minecraft Java, and just maybe.
What are all this testing features for?
Great, now even Minecraft wants me to write tests.
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.