The current state of minecraft and the future of nerd.nu

[Deaygo]

There has been a lot of chaos over the past few weeks in regards to the state of Minecraft and Bukkit.

 

First of all, Bukkit.

The software that we currently use on the servers is spigot, which is a derivation from CraftBukkit with a few changes for performance. A few weeks ago, the project lead of Bukkit made a post to talk about the decay in interest from the developers of CraftBukkit to continue the update for Minecraft 1.8. Following that there was the big reveal that Mojang acquired Bukkit two years prior when it acquired the primary Bukkit team. This lead to a bunch of controversy, and ultimately the CraftBukkit code was taken down by a DMCA from a Bukkit developer. And since then many of the Bukkit team have stepped down.

 

Secondly, the Microsoft acquisition

Yesterday it was announced that Microsoft has acquired Mojang for $2.5 billion and again there has been a lot of people who dislike this and have left the Minecraft community. Things will continue to be updated.

 

Current state of affairs

Since the essential halt of Bukkit, and with no way to move forward, several projects have popped up. Spigot is switching the way that it does its deployment, which will download and patch an existing minecraft_server.jar. There is also Sponge which will be tacking onto Forge in order to provide an API in a similar fashion to Bukkit which would allow plugins to work from version to version of minecraft easily.

 

The future of nerd.nu

As it stands, we will continue to move forward and run the servers. For the time being we will have to stick with Minecraft 1.7 until something viable for 1.8 is out. I personally am watching Sponge, and will hope to get involved with that. All of the techs and I will have to decide what route we wish to take going forward with the server software, but we will try to keep everyone in the loop, but we do plan on continuing on with the servers.