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345 points alex_medvedev | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 09:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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dartos ◴[15 Oct 24 19:52 UTC] No.41852437[source]▶
Just waiting for Minecraft to be so reverse engineered as to be its own protocol with multiple server and client implementations that just work.
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str3wer ◴[15 Oct 24 20:29 UTC] No.41852773[source]▶
it already is, the entire protocol is reverse engineered, there are tools to automatically deobfuscate the code and there is already a full reimplementation of minecraft that also supports servers
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Cyberdog ◴[15 Oct 24 22:01 UTC] No.41853560[source]▶
If that's the case, how come nobody seems to be writing improved Minecraft clients?

Ever since I started playing it in the beta days I've been frustrated with how poorly Minecraft performs relative to what it's showing on the screen. (Not that that stopped me from pouring hundreds of hours into the damn thing.)

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1. vintermann ◴[16 Oct 24 05:33 UTC] No.41855922[source]▶
Well, they do? Sodium, for instance. It's a mod, not a full rewrite, rewriting the client from scratch would mean a lot of boring work like speaking with Mojang's server, but I understand Sodium basically rips out and replaces the entire graphics pipeline of the client.