State of the Pack
After reading Jaded’s view on the Minecraft modding community and modpacks, I decided to write some of my own thoughts I’ve had.Documentation. There is no good, non-outdated documentation for many mods...
View ArticleState of the Pack II - Attack of the Forks
This post discusses a few responses I got to the first part of my Minecraft ranting, as well as touches a subject very important for me: the forking of mods.After posting my initial commentary on what...
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On Open Source Modding
Today, I will be looking into the reasons for which I advocate so strongly for open source modding.Admittedly, though, I went too far in the recent days. Some people have been annoyed due to my...
View ArticleGrum and Arcanis discuss modding
Here are, mirrored, the IRC logs for Grum and Arcanis's conversation, which covers various topics: from the Technic launcher's usage of login tokens, through Mojang's future plans, to their opinions on...
View ArticleOn idealism
As those of you who have followed my semi-controversial stay in the Minecraft community probably know, I'm one of those people who tend to be vocal and opinionated on various subjects. I can't stand it...
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Minetest Status Update #1
I made my first Minetest mod - mesegates. It adds an API to easily add gates with toggleable sides.API example:mesegates:register_gate({mod="mesegates_example",name="and",description="AND...
View ArticleHow I quit Minecraft and went Minetest
This is a post written with clarifying how exactly my change of modding scene happened, because I believe that my previous blog post didn't put it in the right way, as evident by some of the...
View ArticleWelcome to the new ASCIImator!
EDIT: If you have issues accessing the site, hard refresh (Shift+F5, Ctrl+F5, Cmd+R, your mileage might vary).Hello! Today, ASCIImator.net has changed hands. After 9.5 years of being owned by karaboz...
View ArticleHypocrisy
The thing that makes me sick in the Minecraft community is the neverending hypocrisy that can be seen in so many places. Most of the time, people are unaware of it; primarily because it's much harder...
View ArticleCoFHCore is not open!
Just a friendly reminder: any mod which depends on CoFHCore is not open-source, because the dependency forbids you from redistributing any forked versions of the library. (Or, rather, never gains you...
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"#BuildCraftGate"
Large versionNope, this is not the post in which I take an opinion on one of the messiest, most polarizing and arguably at least partially pointless fights between a hashtag and its critics. Today,...
View ArticleA Letter to the Minecraft Community for 2015
Dear Minecraft Community,The year 2014 might not have been the easiest. It had a lot of bumps: the rather long 1.7 update process, the Wolverness DMCAs, the Microsoft buyout, and that "drama" thing...
View ArticleNeverending Apathy
You're the highest you have ever been, flying through the skies, watching pipe systems get built and resurrecting a vision from the days of old, nearly forgotten by the new age of Minecraft modding....
View ArticleDays get longer, days get better
Dear Diary,Despite some people complaining that I abuse my blog as a diary, it is after all my diary - a log of my life - and that is its primary role. Technical insights come secondary to sharing my...
View ArticleA Tale of Joules
First, the part of the story that you know:In the kingdom of modded Minecraft, everything was well. People were powering their machines using electric cables and kinetic pipes and everyone was happy...
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