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I'm always amazed by how so much Minecraft innovation is driven entirely by hobbyists. For years Minecraft was unplayable on many machines without the Optifine
by tdeck 5y ago
I'm always amazed by how so much Minecraft innovation is driven entirely by hobbyists. For years Minecraft was unplayable on many machines without the Optifine plugin. Even with a huge corporation behind it, Microsoft didn't build the capacity for large-scale servers, and the very large paid servers seem to use region based sharding with portals. This project is truly exciting.
- c7DJTLrn 5y agoI liked to hack around with Minecraft in the past but I'd always end up in despair at the state of the game from a technical POV. The Java version of the game is just horribly slow and unoptimised. The game doesn't even have a real modding API, it's all reverse engineered. Seeing chunks pop in really takes away from the experience. The C++ version ("Bedrock") performs much better but is not compatible with the Java edition, doesn't have the same player count, isn't moddable, and is heavily Xbox-inated and Microsoft-ened.
- bobsmooth 5y agoLike all good things it started small and has had decades of building atop old code.
- Natfan 5y agoMinecraft servers aren't really great at region-based sharding. Mojang have not yet added a "transfer packet"[0] which would allow for region-based switching. For the most part, one would need to re-join the server under a different proxy pool located in their desired region, usually accessible via a subdomain (us.example.com, eu.example.com) [0]: https://hypixel.net/threads/why-do-we-need-transfer-packets.1390307 https://hypixel.net/threads/why-do-we-need-transfer-packets....