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For those who value their privacy, I thought I would share this little warning.

When I logged on the Minecraft Forum this morning (Weds 25th Oct), a pop-up appeared with the usual cookie permissions question. Whenever one of these appears on a website I ALWAYS check out the options to make sure that NO cookies are being stored on my computer, and that my web browsing is not being spied on.

What many websites try to do is use a little-known option called "legitimate interest" to ignore a users' cookie preferences. This basically says "the user has requested that no cookies are stored, however we (the advertisers) have a legitimate interest in spying on their browsing history, website usage etc, so we're going to store cookies anyway."

To avoid this, you MUST go into the cookie permissions, and TURN OFF the "legitimate interest" setting.

When the pop-up appeared on the Minecraft Forum this morning, I clicked on the "no cookie" options, but I then tried to find the "legitimate interest" option to make sure that this devious and deceptive setting was also turned off. It turns out there was no simple "legitimate interest" option. What the Minecraft Forum is doing, is forcing users to go through the entire list of advertising companies, and turn off the "legitimate interest" option for each company. Needless to say, this is devious, inconvenient and very time-consuming.

Internet regulations state that users' privacy must be respected, and that cookie options must be clear and transparent. The hiding of cookie options which default to "on" is probably not legal.

In this age of spyware, viruses, internet tracking and surveillance, if you are concerned about your privacy when browsing the web, I suggest you email the Minecraft Forum admins and ask them why they are hiding privacy options. It would be interesting to see how they justify their attempts to help companies spy on all of us.

Have a good day.

Another useless feature that Minecraft has is people who make pointless and negative posts on forums which don't add to the enjoyment of the game, and which simply depress other players because all they do is whine and complain.

I'm afraid I can't support this because my computer has peanut allergy. Sorry.

Version 1.7.10 was absolutely the best because of the variety and number of mods that the community was producing. I wish Mojang had lived up to their promises of the "modding API" that they were supposed to be working on. When Micro$oft took over and switched everything to their store, it really stunted the modding community. I miss Risugami's mod collection, and many other mod authors too.

Java is definitely better than bedrock. There used to be an active free modding community around MineCraft, guys like Risugami produced lots of useful and interesting mods for the game. But of course with Microsoft forcing everything behind a paywall, it killed the community.

I can't understand why MineCraft is at fault here, and why IT is to blame when players have no intellect or imagination.

There are certain cultures around the world where life is so easy that people end up thinking that they will be spoon-fed for their entire lives, and not have to lift a finger to do anything. When players start complaining that games like MineCraft "don't have enough content" or are "boring", they are not highlighting a problem with MineCraft, they are highlighting a big problem with the society in which they live.

If you want to show people how good the trees look, why have you taken a screenshot at NIGHT when it's dark? I can hardly see any details in that picture!

I think it's possible to include new music tracks inside a MineCraft mod/resource pack. I don't know the technical details of how to create one, but if modders can include new blocks, tools, materials etc into the game, I don't see why you couldn't add music as well. I think I remember playing some mod packs a long time ago which changed the music.

So just find out how to create a mod, add your music into it, and you'll be able to let other MineCraft players hear your songs. Good luck!

This makes no sense. What are you asking?

Making it so that Villagers can only be zombified once greatly decreases player agency in regards to that field. Getting correct trades out of a villager is already a very long process, and zombification and dezombification is costly as well, so there was already enough restrictions in place for trading with villagers.

If you wanted to make villager trading less lucrative to players, a better course of action would be to nerf the means of the process rather than the end, like maybe having a cooldown on how many times a villager can be zombified in a given period, or increasing the level of weakness in a potion needed to dezombify a villager. That way, players could still get 1 emerald trades, but it would be much more time consuming or expensive to do so, giving Mojang their desired nerf while not effecting player agency quite as much.

its not a joke. 1.9 added strategy to combat and made it more of a rock paper scissors type of thing with shields, swords and axes. it also made it so you cant just spam click to victory

where's the 1.9 option

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Please stick to the question at hand, not how minecraft is coded and how it handles things, post if you can help the OP with what they asked, not by waffling on about how the game uses the resources its given

Was I not sticking to the topic? I replied directly to something that someone else said. This "waffling on about how the game uses its resources" was literally relevant here. If you're going to call someone out for being off topic, and then sprinkle a light insult in while you're at it (thanks, by the way), at least be sure you're right before you belittle their attempt to help someone else, because that's all I was ever trying to do! Being insulted, singled out, and censored for just trying to help someone sure feels nice. If a little bit of elaboration bothers you enough to do that and delete my post, sorry?

It's also a bit insulting to have been singled out when many of the replies have done what I did and addressed how Minecraft can't be forced to make use of excessive RAM. Even if I elaborated a bit (which I don't think warrants censoring an entire post for being off topic, irrelevant, or unhelpful anyway), I am HARDLY the only one who did this here.

There are a lot of people that come by inquiring about Minecraft performance related things, such as why they get stutters on their high end PC, or how to allocate 80 GB of RAM to Minecraft, and a plethora of other things, and these are absolutely the sort of times and places where explaining how Minecraft (and Java) reacts is relevant, because some of them aren't inherent performance problems, per se, but come from a lack of understanding on how Minecraft behaves. Stuff like that IS answering the question. It's helping the OP with information. I get it; some of us elaborate, and some of us say the same things we've said elsewhere. So what? Some are more to the point. Collectively, we increase helping others and we all do it our own way, but if I'm going to be insulted and then censored for doing nothing wrong and only trying to help someone, with the WORST of my crime being "I might elaborate a bit" when I'm not even the only one who is like that, then this forum is no longer a place I will invest any time into.

@OP, sorry for any issues while attempting to help you. Ultimately, I hope you get the enjoyment you seek from the game.

1 problem i dont have my transaction ID. ik how i payed but its not there its 6-7 years ago, so ive send it without the ID. Lets hope it works

People just seem to be obsessed with transforming Minecraft from a survival game to a tycoon game.

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how else do u power ur beacon, make a ton of hoppers, get free minecarts for tntminecart blast mining(for getting like sand or netherrite) without spending alot of time mining iron ore and for players who dont die u need only 2stacks of diamonds in the game anyways. and even if u now run out of some minneral u can skip mining the iron ore saving time mining for lapiz redstone and diamonds for example.

I can easily mine all the iron for even a level 4 beacon within just two play sessions - I've mined a total of more than 600,000 iron ore in my first world and well over a million in all my worlds combined, at the rate of around 750 per play session, occasionally over a thousand, even up to 1,300 in an extreme case (a beacon requires 1476). I've also collected more than 175,000 rails (equivalent to another 65,000 iron) from mineshafts with only about a tenth of that used in an extensive rail system connecting 19 bases across a 6600x6600 world:

The results of 100 play sessions of caving

...over this period I mined an average of 3476 resources, 3256 ores [including 787 iron], collected 5504 XP, and killed 361 mobs - every day for 100 days straight.

This would be really useful, as I was browsing the character creator, accidentally clicked A, and bought a stupid giant red bow that wasted 160 of my Minecoins. I didn't want to buy anything, there was no confirmation. And I spent it on an overpriced character item. Not happy.

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Wait, 1.13 will have 1.8 combat?

If you're talking about Romaq's comment, I believe he was refering to data packs, which are optional pieces of content like resource packs. I'm not sure what the capabilities of a data pack are though, so I'm not even sure this is possible or not.

Quote from Some Other Guy and I'm not gonna do a proper quote thing because BBCode is terrible and I hate editing my posts in it.:

After 1.7.10 a lot of modders got fed up with the frequent changes and stopped updating their mods.

I came to the modding community late in the period of 1.7.10's popularity, but it seems like 1.7.10 was a booming time for mods. And if I remember correctly I think Advanced Rocketry and Immersive Engineering spawned while 1.7.10 was still popular.

Mods stopped updating because they hit a roadblock with 1.8's new rendering system. BuildCraft's pipes wouldn't work, etc because Tile Entity rendering had become more limited. 1.8 was also less optimized as mentioned by the developer of Optifine. (I'd quote a rather long post of his about this, but I don't know the URL.)

That being said, mods are updating again. Lots of mods have moved to 1.10 - 1.12 including McJty's mods (who have led the charge into 1.11 and 1.12) AR and IE as mentioned earlier, Galacticraft, and fan favorite Thermal Expansion.

I don't think you're entirely wrong that we lost multiple popular mods from 1.7.10 as Minecraft moved on, but it seems like the modding community is gaining ground again with new versions.

In the way of making mod installation easier like Factorio, I think Mojang is moving in that direction with Data Packs and Resource Packs. I certainly hope that Forge Modding stays around because of its better support for advanced concepts as seen in RotaryCraft or Advanced Rocketry, but upgrading the Vanilla gameplay with basic custom mobs, blocks and items seems just around the corner at this point.

Even then, Forge Mods are incredibly easy to install at the moment... So I dunno what you're complaining about. Just download a mod and place it in your mods folder. I don't think it could get much simpler than that, just more convenient.

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(a) The 1.13 update
(b) When it's ready

(c) Maybe