Those little things that irk you about Minecraft
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If I remember correctly, the .Net runtime is open, its one of the reasons the Mono project was able to get off the ground. Compare it to the Java runtime, which got Oracle/Sun really pissy when Microsoft wanted to ship a better version of it with J# back when that was still a thing. Also, the .Net framework has an entire library dedicated to threading and general parallelization. I should know, I used it just two days ago.
Mono. Develop using Mono and your cross-platform worries are gone. It likely isn't perfect, but nothing is. Now, let me set the record straight: I am not saying Mojang should rewrite Minecraft in C#. They'd just fuck that up, too. Leginaru, language matters only to a certain extent. One could likely make a clone of Minecraft using Visual BASIC 6 and, if they actually know what the hell they're doing, it'd outperform the one we got now.
Allow me to put it another way: A sharp sword is definitely better than a dull one. However, if you give a child the sharp sword, he'll be useless with it because he doesn't have any idea what he's doing. In the grand scheme of things, talent matters more than language choice. Mojang does not possess this talent and, thus, we get a game that is incredibly simple running like shit on a computer that could easily run modern games at an acceptable framerate.
Yeah, that's awesome, still not worth a rewrite just for switching to that lang. Also, if I remember correctly Java has a library dedicated to threading also...
Yeah...that's what i'm saying. But even with Mono it is buggy. I run OS X, I know that Mono stuff can be extremely buggy, not all the time, but enough of the time that it could break the game for non-windows users.
Exactly what I'm saying -.-
Wasn't .Net made open just recently? Afaik, Mono already existed way before that happened.
I don't think so...it might not have been open since the beginning, but if memory serves, the Mono project was only really able to take off due to said openness.
The problem wasn't that Microsoft wanted to ship a better library.
Microsoft was effectively claiming to be shipping Java, but most people who attempted to write a portable Java program wound up shipping a microsoft-specific program -- and what you had to do to make a pure java, portable program, was not well documented, and not "java standard".
Aah, ljfa, you are correct. With all the sharp languages, I tend to get the ones that aren't C# confused, lol. Also, Strikingwolf, I stand corrected.
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That people forget what building is once they start playing with mods.... 9x9 anyone?
FTFY
While I support everyone's freedom to play the game as they like, I also don't understand why some people are satisfied with building cobble boxes with machines in them
9x9 lol.
Try 9x9 chunks, building at bedrock while open to the sky with a clear glass ceiling
I need elbow room
Try 9x9 chunks, building at bedrock while open to the sky with a clear glass ceiling
I need elbow room
Celestialphoenix
Too Much Free Time
Then they use said machines to fill an ME drive with 10 million iron ingots that they'll never use.FTFY
While I support everyone's freedom to play the game as they like, I also don't understand why some people are satisfied with building cobble boxes with machines in them
...Yeah sometimes I don't understand people either.
What if we plan to equal trade our entire continent into iron blocks? Although 10 million wouldn't be enough for that (even if just the surface)
Celestialphoenix
Too Much Free Time
What if we plan to equal trade our entire continent into iron blocks? Although 10 million wouldn't be enough for that (even if just the surface)
This needs to happen. Time to find a server.
This needs to happen. Time to find a server.
You'd probably need something like ProjectE to get a few hundred million iron in a reasonable timeframe.
If simply acquiring ingots was your only goal in the game and you spend all your time on that goal, then simply building BR reactors, setting down Quarry+/Ender Quarries and running it through something like RoC/Mekanism ore x5 should get you there in short time.
Or there is a million cross mod exploits you can take advantage of in most packs to speed it up.
Working/building next to a item gatherer device(like a Vacuum Hopper/Item Collector/Hungry Chest/Gatherer Golem/Obsidian Pipe/whatever).
Despite I KNOW it is there, I constantly catch myself scratching my head unable to find the item I just broke...
Despite I KNOW it is there, I constantly catch myself scratching my head unable to find the item I just broke...