Notch added that it was a "scary move, but I feel strangely confident. I guess we've worked close enough for long enough for me to feel confident about it. He's exactly what Minecraft needs right now. He's a bit more mod friendly than I am, and we need to embrace mods more."
Jeb commented on the situation as well, stating that he wasn't "sure when the idea came up the first time (from Notch), but it has been a few months now. We all knew that Notch was going to work on other things after release, so it kind of seemed natural for me to 'take over'."
Jeb's next step is to work on the mod API for Minecraft, a long-awaited feature for players and modders alike. He had the following to say on the API:
He went on to add that a release for the new API would likely be seen no sooner than March.Quote fromUntil January I will be the only developer on Minecraft, so things will have to be slow initially. But my absolute main priority now is to create a mod API, because there is no way in hell I will be able to add as much content as the whole internet can do. The game needs an API, so end users can obtain the mods without hassle. I'm not going to do it all by myself though. We have a new programmer beginning in January, and we are talking to existing mod API teams, such as Bukkit, Minecraft Forge, and Minecraft Coder Pack.
Notch and Jeb have collaborated on Minecraft development for over a year, and Notch has expressed the utmost confidence in his collaborator's capabilities. You can contact Jeb via e-mail (at [email protected]), or on Twitter.
Jeb was originally hired as Mojang's back-end developer. Over time, Jeb became increasingly involved in the development of Minecraft, and is now responsible for many well-known parts of the game. Having worked on features such as wolves, pistons and map structures (villages, strongholds and nether fortresses), he now takes his vision of Minecraft's future foward as the official head developer of the game. Congratulations, Jeb!
The though of having a modding API is enough to convince me this change is a good one. Notch will always have a special place in my heart but for now, Jeb will my hero.
...and to any of those who say "Stop hating against Notch" or anything like that I have a little story for you:
So for those of you who think im a Notch hater or think that I just currently hate Notch, You're wrong.
Terrain should be the priority, and it wouldn't take too long to fix it. (Swamps for example.)
Edit: I'm upset because if the priority is mod support and it won't come 'til March, then what's generation going to see? I'm skerd.
I was in the middle of building my legit church of Notch.
Time to rebuild........
Yes finally. We won't have to download and install so many things just to get mods working. Hope it's like texture packs where you just drag and drop the whole thing into a folder.
Diamonds for Mojang
Congrats Jeb! We'll miss Notch though... He'll still help though! He made Minecraft !
Could this mean that Aether Development could be added to Minecraft? I hope it happens because the Developers of Aether is having a hard time updating the mod every now and then. Give them a hand Jeb and help improve Aether!
- Aether could be unlocked after The End right?
Jeb has experience namely Harvest Tower Defence and Cobalt. Guy knows what he's doing.