#Minecraft forge update mod#
#Minecraft forge update update#
#Minecraft forge update software#

Purpose, so I would not call it a complete deobfuscation. Original name in the Minecraft binary, but it still does not tell the method’s I would call Searge mappings partiallyĭeobfuscated because at least a method’s Searge name is different from its When an MCP name is not available for a method, it willīe assigned a Searge name from Searge mappings, which can be something Method names are not all generated by magic: they are available thanks toĭevelopers’ efforts. Of what each method does, like getMainWindow for example. Reasonably meaningful method names ( MCP names) enough to give us a rough idea The result of a complete deobfuscation is MCP mappings, which consist of Was created to remap obfuscated method names in decompiled Minecraft sourceĬode to better names that actually tell those methods’ purposes. Mojang has been obfuscating Minecraft for a very long time, and this canĭefinitely be a barrier for people who want to write modifications to the game. Preventing other people from guessing what a function/method does from what it Obfuscation entails scrambling function/method names into meaningless symbols, Through the function/method names in the program.

#Minecraft forge update software#

Software from reverse engineering that they are afraid of other people gettingĮven a tiny clue about how their software is implemented from mere peeks Technique used by software developers who are so eager to protect their To answer this question, let us first look at what obfuscation is. It for later and did not revisit it until recently. This was actually not as hard as I had imagined, but I chose to save Replacement, so I had to figure out a way to reconstruct a formatted message Method for getting a chat message in formatted form was removed in 1.16 without with the formattingĬodes, for detecting the start of a Bed Wars game and

#Minecraft forge update mod#

My mod needs to read chat messagesĭelivered to the client in their original form, i.e. Thing that stopped me from finalizing the port was a redesign of textĬomponents API in Minecraft itself. Helped me complete the majority of the migration to Minecraft 1.16. Deobfuscation was satisfactory by October 2020, which Little longer than it should have been, as I got busy with other things in my My wait for a Forge build that I think is truly stable continued, and it went a You release an incomplete version and deprecate an older stable version,įorcing people who don’t want to be on the bleeding edge to use 1.15.x? IĪlmost wanted to curse Forge developers for this stupid decision and Forgeįorum moderators’ frigid treatment of forum threads about unsupported Minecraft Thread, preventing other community members from offering a helping hand.

#Minecraft forge update update#

Supported, please update to receive support”, and ruthlessly closing the Official forum, you will see a moderator coldly replying “your version is no longer Support for a Minecraft version is that if you ask a question about it on the I was disappointed: a build that stillĬonsisted of lots of meaningless obfuscated method names should never qualifyĪs a stable build in my opinion, but Forge developers decided to say that “thisīuild is production-ready and recommended”, dropping official support for When I saw the first recommended build for 1.16.x, I downloaded it to find out Immature, and my mod’s update would not ship with 1.16 support.

However, after a hard attempt to port my mod to Minecraft 1.16, Iĭecided that because many method names in the Minecraft API source codeĭecompiled by MCP were still not fully deobfuscated, Forge on 1.16 was still My mod was worked on, and I contemplated adding support for 1.16 along with

Development ofįorge for Minecraft 1.16.x already had significant progress when the update for Serires about an update to my mod project. September 2020, very soon after I published the previous blog post for this The first recommended build for 1.16.x, which is Forge 34.1.0, was released in It is no longer news that Minecraft Forge has stable Minecraft 1.16 support, as

Additional Parameter of Method for Sending Chat Messages.

Removed Method for Getting Formatted Text.

Removed Method for Getting a Settings Option’s Display String.

Additional Matrix Stack Parameter of GUI Rendering Methods.

MC Forge Mod Dev Blog: Migrating to Minecraft 1.16