Post #1536152
2026-02-04 04:11 UTC
>Very goofy and annoying for modders since if you wanted a useful name you have to first decompile Minecraft, then change all the names, and then when you compile change all references to said names in your code back to their actual obfuscated nonsense.
I expect this is what things like Forge were handling, right?
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@Traister101@lemmy.today 2026-02-04 10:02
That's on the dev end of things but yes. Part of the build pipeline was re-obfuscation of your code so it'd actually work. Forge the mod loader just loaded the mods and provided code for modders to use. Forge *Gradle* was what handled the obfuscation stuff in dev