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Mods are mentioned in that post. Read carefully. BTW, the news from MS perspective: http://news.xbox.com/2014/09/games-minecraft-to-join-microsoft

Perhaps it was already said but this: http://minetest.net/ also looks promising

It is done: https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/

I personally think that the way to go would be to make an Open Source engine only. So make something which implements everything needed for mod developers to add content. That means the base 'game' would be extremely light and all content is added with mods. That way the team that concentrates...

I thought a cursed earth spawner only works if the player is nearby? Chunk loading that doesn't help.

Actually some people (like me when I'm in the mood) like a challenge. I would not disable such an option as I feel it would 'lessen' the experience.

In one respect I agree with that. However one should be careful with over-balancing. The reason people make the laser/big reactor combo is just because it is giving a net gain. If it wouldn't give a net gain then it wouldn't been done. After all, mods add stuff that Vanilla can't do. Which is...

Netherstars are a drop from killing the wither.

This morning I found something weird when playing UHS (Ultra Hard Survival from ATLauncher). There were three torches on the bottom of the ocean floor. Despite being in the water they didn't pop off. Other then the torches everything else was normal. I also explored under the torches and...

I both program for a living (not for free) and develop Open Source software so I'm a bit at home in both areas :-)

What I think is happening right now is that the deal isn't done yet but they are talking about it. That would explain the silence as they don't want to leak details on this potential deal out before it is finalized.

Of course if suddenly there is a lot of interest in that project it may revive. Additionally it is Open Source so in principle a new team can fork or take over.

Why wouldn't we be able to continue modding our 1.6.4/1.7.10/1.8 versions? We already have those versions of Minecraft. They will stay working. Do you have a (credible) source for this? Given that the buyout isn't even confirmed I doubt this.

Some time ago I actually started (more as an experiment) my own Minecraft lookalike. It is written in C++ (and uses my own Open Source Crystal Space engine) and also python for game logic/modding purposes. Due to lack of time the project was stopped but it would be possible to revive it (or an...

There is no reason at all to leave it behind. Just the opposite. *if* the worst happens (and that's not confirmed yet) and the modding community as we know it right now dies then we still have this (strong!) community and there are many options we can consider. Either we can choose to build...

Perhaps, perhaps not. It is possible (at least for single player) to bypass that check. If you have a forge dev environment for making mods that happens already for example and hacked copies of Minecraft do it too. That wouldn't help for server play but perhaps something can be done about that...

I would propose to really start worrying once we: a) know for sure the deal goes through. As far as I know that still hasn't been officially confirmed. b) know for sure that the plans MS has with Minecraft are bad for us and the modding community. This is also far from certain. We simply don't...

If we were to stabilize on a single version then I think we should take 1.8. While it is early in its release it has had some major rewrites (threaded chunk generation and such) which I feel are important to go further on. Also we can (if needed) patch the bugs ourselves in case there are no...

I'm also a bit worried about platforms that MS doesn't really support like Linux (which is my main platform for playing and developing Minecraft) and PSX.

It sure would be possible (and in fact it is not even hard) but still would be rather bad that we would have to do something like that and I'm not sure it would work for server play.