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Delay a release? Sure. But delay a snapshot? Why? By releasing the snapshot in this state, they learn both 1) how big of a problem those known issues are (how o
by mort96 3mo ago
Delay a release? Sure. But delay a snapshot? Why? By releasing the snapshot in this state, they learn both 1) how big of a problem those known issues are (how often does entering exclusive fullscreen crash the game on Windows? They presumably have telemetry for this), and 2) if there are other, as of yet unknown issues they need to fix before release. The earlier you learn these things, the better.
There hasn't ever been a promise that snapshots are bug free; the expectation is rather the opposite.
- repeekad 3mo agoAre snapshots explicitly a beta channel? Or do users get auto updates to them? Testing for bugs in prod shouldn’t be acceptable unless users expect bugs in exchange for getting latest features early in something like a beta channel
- mort96 3mo agoThey're previews of what they're working on and what they're going to add to the next version. You don't get auto updated to them, you have to select them in the launcher. As you would expect from the word "snapshot" contrasted up against the word "release", might I add.
- piperswe 3mo agoSnapshots are the weekly (at least they used to be, I think they're less frequent now) development snapshots - they are explicitly pre-beta versions that you have to opt in to.
- poly2it 3mo agoSnapshots are only for testing. They are sometimes not forwards-compatible.
- creatonez 3mo agoThey are explicitly a beta channel, and in fact if you create a world on a snapshot you don't have an upgrade path to future releases (unless you start hacking at your world files with an NBT editor). So most of the community ignores them and waits till release.
- pfg_ 3mo agoSnapshots do let you upgrade worlds to future releases and you don't need to do any NBT editing, just upgrade the game and load the world.
- nkrisc 3mo agoThough there are of course no guarantees there won’t be problems with the world.
- creatonez 3mo agoHuh, I guess I assumed that based on the behavior of most of the experimental flags offered on world creation. Has that always been the case? I think mojang is taking a turn away from experimental feature flags these days, so I guess this situation will get better over time.
- gopher_space 3mo agothey're not useful to users looking for the latest features. They're useful to mod developers who'd like to see how internal changes might affect their work. For example.
- mghackerlady 3mo ago(eh, most people I know occasionally touch the snapshots for new features. Way back when the nether was updated, nobody I knew was on the release version because the nether was simply so much better that it was hard to play the older versions)
- nkrisc 3mo agoMinecraft snapshots are beta. A default installation of the Minecraft launcher will not download and install snapshots. You have to opt-in to it.