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renewable is stuff that you can get in a closed area, for example, cobwebs are not, meanwhile the dragon egg is, since you can craft the tome of alkahest and use 72 diamonds (from renewable UU matter) to craft it.
You bought their game in first place just to play it vanilla, now if you loose interest in minecraft is something else, because you already paid for it.
Minecraft for me is never CPU or RAM intensive (I can run client + a server for me and my friend + skype + web browser and the usage of both RAM and CPU is very low) but it is GPU intensive, to the point that you can play minecraft in a core 2 duo and 2 gb of ram + a dedicated card pretty good...
As soon as you change a vanilla class all mods have to update, and mojang doesn't really care/owe anything to the modding comunity (when do you hear "I found minecraft because of XYZ mod"? Never.)
I'll be happy to keep frames, frame tubes and... frame motors!
everything else is... not useful for me (AKA I can live fine without it/other mods exist that do a better job)
and render the 6 faces of each block, and animations, and mobs, and entities, and chunk loading... most sandbox games are resource intensive, just because the way they are.
chunks are not 16x16x255, well, they are, but they only load 16x16x an area of blocks, so for example, in the nether chunks are 16x16x127 because there is nothing above the bedrock, now, if you place a block, it will load that chunk 16x16x143.
I liked the horses and shit... but not the idea itself, doesn't really fit into minecraft for me.
oh, and carpets... new super thin covers (microblocks)?