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The Deobfuscation: Analyzing Minecraft c0.0.13a The version where Notch gave the names back, and we learned something about build pipelines. On May 30, 2009 — nine days after c0.0.13a_03 introduced…
Porting c0.0.13a_03 to Rust: Through the Obfuscation Wall In which the class names disappear, water fills the valleys, and bedrock seals the floor. This is version 7 of 878. The…
The Obfuscation Wall: Analyzing Minecraft c0.0.13a_03 The version where the source code stopped being readable, and the world gained water. On May 21, 2009 — five days after Minecraft got…
Porting c0.0.11a to Rust: The Birth of Minecraft In which RubyDung gets a name, text appears on the screen, and the player learns to build. This is version 6 of…
The Naming: Analyzing Minecraft c0.0.11a The version where RubyDung died and Minecraft was born. On May 16, 2009 — the same day rd-161348 shipped — Notch released another version. This…
Porting rd-161348 to Rust: The Revert In which Notch undoes yesterday’s experiment, the bushes come back, the particles slow down, and our modular tile system proves it was worth the…
The Revert: Analyzing rd-161348 The version where Notch decided that yesterday’s experiment was wrong and today’s job was to undo it. One day after shipping the smallest Minecraft version to…
Porting rd-160052 to Rust: Learning to Delete In which we remove a tile type that was only one version old, discover that subtracting code requires as much care as adding…
The Art of Subtraction: Analyzing rd-160052 The version where Notch learned that removing features is a feature. One day after building the largest single-version expansion in Minecraft’s early history —…
Porting rd-20090515 to Rust: The World Gets Interesting In which we discover that Java’s tile inheritance hierarchy maps to Rust match arms, that Perlin noise is neither Perlin nor noise,…
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