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2 years ago he tweeted that his price was $2B.

"But importing every Minecraft functionnality to Spacecraft would be an even bigger change... x)"
True, but on the other hand, if the devs of Spacecraft will agree to release the code into public domain (they seem to be very generous about its use), you'll be directly contributing to development of a long-term public domain project with endless possibilities, not constantly trying to deobfuscate a privately owned commercial one without having any say about the course of its development at all.

Suddenly, spending time on development of an open-source clone that won't ever have to deal crap like this doesn't seem like that crazy an idea.

LOL, at least I can't be blamed for bringing this subject to this particular thread.

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Suddenly, spending time on development of an open-source clone that won't ever have to deal crap like this doesn't seem like that crazy an idea.

Yeah I've been thinking the exact same thing. Of course I really hope we won't have to, but you never know.

At least at that point we could really implement things that make sense...like actual fish....

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Suddenly, spending time on development of an open-source clone that won't ever have to deal crap like this doesn't seem like that crazy an idea.

I vote for:
http://terasology.org/
If such terrible events come to pass.

terasology is dead... well it looks like it.

I have a few questions regarding tall worlds:
1. Will this be able to generate other mods features in tall worlds?
2. Will there be any changes to how caves generate?(like giant cave systems/caverns, maybe even the rare underground ecosystem/forest using glowstone as light where you reach a certain layer down)
3. How are you going to handle lighting?


Well I beileve that's all I would like to know for now(sorry if these have already been awnsered before)

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terasology is dead... well it looks like it.

Seems to be. Downloads were down at least. I found a dutch website that had an earlier download though. I'll reupload it to a better site as the license says this:

Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form.

It looks nice, but seems to have some glitches. Unfortunately wasn't playable on my iGPU. (My 7970 died. :()

EDIT: https://mega.co.nz/#!lE50jCbL!z_llqwzIWekZAWFZPd48NonuLML0jvOQ9OW-54AfUk8 It's terasology 738, whatever that means.

For anyone interested in the buyout news, it looks like the $2.5 billion deal will be publicly announced this Monday (Reuters).

I'm not sure how to feel about the whole Microsoft buying Mojang deal. One one hand, it could give them a bigger budget to work with, but on the other hand, it just doesn't feel right for a major company like Microsoft to own Minecraft ._.

Also I'm just going to kind of claim post #1000 here

At this point I just don't want them to pull their current favorite trick of saying that Minecraft 2.0 and beyond for PCs will only be compatible with Win 8.1 and beyond... Because I will be using Win 7 for a loooong time. This is my greatest personal concern.

I'm already resigned to the fact that this means I will have to rebuy Minecraft at some point and that there will be DLC packs etc. They are going to get their $2.5 Billion back somehow...

Other than all that, I expect that they will eventually be able to finally take Minecraft to the next level, maybe.

* Oh yeah.. Need to get some coffee.. Obviously the other great concern is what effect this will have on Modding.. I guess we'll see. In the meantime I guess we'll always have the Old-Version-Underground and Modded Minecraft Underground.


EDIT: Oh, and if they want to pretend to be good guys about it then instead of making 8.1 mandatory they will just make sure there are dependencies and bugs that somehow make Minecraft work REALLY poorly on Win 7 and XP but awesome on Win 8.. Kinda like the unintentional current bug in Minecraft that makes it play better than ever for a percentage of people and worse than any other version for others.. Except completely on purpose in MS's case.

EDITx2: I guarantee it all starts with Minecraft 2.0. And the thing is, they will probably add in a lot of the most favorite features currently gained through mods. It'll likely be so good that we will WANT to pay for it again. Though the $60 or higher price tag might put a little lump in our throats as we furtively hand over the cash for it.

So... this thread took a bit of a detour.

How the heck did this get from 'Cubic Chunks' to 'Microsoft Buying Mojang and, by extension, Minecraft, and the potential consequences thereof'?

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So... this thread took a bit of a detour.

How the heck did this get from 'Cubic Chunks' to 'Microsoft Buying Mojang and, by extension, Minecraft, and the potential consequences thereof'?

This whole affair has the entire modding community concerned for it's very existence, so it touches us intimately and the modders even more so. It's difficult to think of anything else atm, especially now that we know an announcement of Microsoft's purchase of Minecraft is expected to occur this Monday...

And, in particular, this project here depends on other projects of Cuchaz's which are involved with deobfuscation of certain codes which allow continued modding, both Cuchaz's and others, to continue occurring just under the type of circumstances happening right now. Especially since Microsoft essentially just bought MCP (Searge) and bukkit when it bought Mojang..

It might very well be that there won't be anymore easy community mc modding (of newer mc versions) without Cuchaz's project Enigma.

See summary of situation in spoiler below:
EDIT: * A second comic has been added to the spoiler, modders mentioned.
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I hope modding will still be authorized. They would kill the greatest part of Minecraft if they forbid it.

If they disallow modding I'll be done with Minecraft forever ^-^