How!? (blocks Change Between 1.9 & 1.14)

How is this possible?? I just joined HERO Beta in 1.9 to test something and this is what it looks like:



Yet in 1.14.4 it looks like this:



The blocks literally change! concrete doesn't exist in 1.9. Terracotta and Wool replace Concrete and Concrete Powder somehow. I need answers :D

 

The blocks are changed client-side, IIRC. It’s a similar system to cutting down trees, where the block data is stored on your computer rather than the server, so they can change what blocks your computer loads

 

That's some galaxy brain coding

 

i tihkn thats a default minecraft code for server that support 1.8 -1.16 (no offense lol)

 

If I am correct, it works by translating the packets from 1.8 packets to 1.14 packets. However, somewhere the server is storing these new blocks, which are translated into older blocks when you join with 1.9 or something. This is also presumably how they got advancements on a 1.8 server (guild map), since advancements are a 1.12 feature.

 

I am not galaxy brain

 

Wow, that's pretty interesting, I didn't even know this was possible. Thanks for the info!

 

I'm pretty sure it was coded in-house by one of the Devs a while back, when 1.12 was first released, and that's the reason why using blocks from versions above 1.12 is impossible. I think it's one of the big reasons why there hasn't been any effort in moving towards getting blocks from higher versions of mc, because it will be very difficult to change since new additions to that plugin will be needed and there was some kind of witchcraft used in making the original plugin that's difficult or time consuming to replicate.

Other servers do have similar plugins though, I'm sure, but those also were likely made by the devs of those respective servers or found elsewhere. I don't think it's a purely vanilla feature.

 

Which dev was it? And why is it so difficult to replicate?

 

Viaversion is a common one. However, it only world for translating to past versions (joining a 1.13+ server with 1.12 displays fish as bats, bamboo as sugar cane, ect). What wynncraft has done is it's own sort of magic, and probably a huge headache, but I suspect it would be easier to update than actually updating the server (which wouldn't be worth it except to use new spigot and NMS features, and some minor performance improvements if they go to 1.12).

 

Pretty certain it was JP.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was around 1.18 when client-side blocks became a thing, which JP did if I'm not mistaken.

 

yeah I think it was jp

 

Sooo... The secret is with jp? Noone else has recreated such a plugin for later versions of MC?

 

I think there is no use in having the server available for 1.9 - 1.11, I have never seen anyone play on those versions since those were the latest version of the game.

If an amazing person were to update the server, Wynncraft would have much more flexibility with what they are capable of doing for a long time