That Time Mojang Tried to BUY OptiFine

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Notch wasn't involved in the squid milking thing at all, it was the first mob implemented by Jeb and he made it by duplicating the cow code and forgot to remove the milking function

I remembered squids being the first mob coded by Jeb, and that being the reason squids could be milked. Jeb didn't know how to properly implement it. Not that this is important, but I just wanted to mention this.

Whenever I hear a story like this, I wonder why companies don't try to hire these developers. Working remotely in a company like this is easy, and these are people who care about your product and know it intimately because they've worked with it extensively before. There are few people more qualified to work in your game studio than people like this

I have heard of this, but never looked anything up about it, but nice to see you making a video about it. You might not be super happy with the video, but it did turn out pretty good imo.

1:08 it was actually Jeb that was given a task to create squid and as he was new to the games code he wanted to see the Notch's way of implementing mobs so he copied the cows code and forgot to delete the milking method. 9:58 Its not a full third party mod implementation, but back in 1.16 they hired the Aether creator to work on the nether terrain generation.

Fun fact: at 1:07 it was actually jeb who made the squid with the cow ai and forgot to remove the milking ability

Nice video! When I looked up why Optifine isn't in Minecraft I was told it was because Mojang didn't want all of the features (namely the custom capes). I appreciate that you took the time to explain the more nuanced reasons the plan fell through.

It is pretty sad how they added squid milking, but didn't change it to get ink instead. It would be a nice feature

The first time I tried Java on my PC, it led me to believe that my (first) PC was the problem. I mean, it was, but still.

Nice video :] Really hope Minecraft’s performance can improve in the future. The lighting engine rework is a step in the right direction. Small correction but squid milking was an oversight by Jeb, not Notch, as he made the mob.

Explanation of MCP source: The MCP codebase is reverse engineered source code of Minecraft, which still gives a pretty similar result to the original code, but it's still different. Mod devs don't have access to the original code so use MCP. This means if he was to implement it in the base game he would have to rewrite some bits of the mod.

They should implement sodium into the basegame, make a Fabulously optimized setting, and shader settings.....that would be great

I have been a fan for a while now and I just want to say thanks for always entertaining me. I don’t even play Minecraft anymore but I love these videos. Keep up the good work ❤

I kinda dont like the fact that people say that modders are better than devs at what they do. For some it IS true, but without the actual game to mod, some of the modders that made the game better would just be non-existent.

The answer was kind of exactly what I expected. I hope Mojang eventually does something about Java's optimization

I wanted to comment my appreciation of the insight you give into those videos! It's pretty rare regarding, really anything, especially as of some time now! Great content, awesome skits inbetween, always something to lay your eyes onto Sageless!

I honestly always assumed the issue was the capes. Mojang isn't going to add everyone's custom capes (even if they are just banner designs, and I think that should just be a feature anyway), and Spx isn't going to make a deal that essentially scams people out of their money.

OptiFine has been borked for years and it's only a necessary evil until the alternatives to support heavily customized resource packs are ripe. It makes sense that Mojang wanted only parts of a project, especially since there were other things they were going to do on their own or didn't want in vanilla at all. And no one's at fault of anything if a deal can't satisfy either party.

I really enjoy how your channel focus’s on Minecraft’s lore and what happens behind the curtain at Mojang… it brings me back and gives me a huge nostalgia trip lol. reminds me of the good old Notch days… I would love to see a video focusing on Dr.Zhark and his contribution to Minecraft. After all, he is the granddaddy of mob mods in MC. One of the first modders and a legend in the community.