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!
Just saying, it's not going to make a HUGE difference. If this hadn't been anounced nobody would ever be able to tell.
Good don't play anymore...that sounds so ignorant, Jeb worked on the game with Notch and will still be working on minecraft with him. Jeez do you think he would just give position up knowing that Jeb wasn't fit for the position? NO. SO SIT DOWN AND HUG A CREEPER KID.
YOUR SO JOLLY AND I WANT TO HUG YOU!.
I DONT WANT TO HUG JEB :'(((((((
I WILL BE FOREVER SAD.
JOKING BUT I HOPE YOUR NEW JOB
GOES WELL YOUR IN MY PRAYERSThese Will be Tough Days.
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All i want to say is congrats Jeb to become the top developer of minecraft.We all know that Notch is awesome as hell and will always be but the problem was he was not doing much for minecraft compared to Jeb.I think it is very good for minecraft that Jeb would become the top developer because he would make MineCraft so much better!So now its Jeb time!IGood luck MineCrafters!sry if all this is crossed out theres a prob with my computer but all this is true