The Story of Eaglercraft

Here's the story of how a few, very dedicated developers ported Minecraft Java Edition to a web browser.

[diguififficial]

Funny how the whole code was hosted on github, which Microsoft also owns. My guy stole their whole game and distributed it for free at their own lawn, what a chad.

[Micha-Hil]

The fact that Notch isn't working on Minecraft anymore meaning we can't get Quake 3 Arena matches between ingenious developers and Markuss is a real shame. Now they have to "settle" in "court" and set "precedents" and "new laws". That's boring.

[ThenamesC]

Fun fact - In any pretty much any instance, it says Minceraft instead of Minecraft.

[Marioa]

Notch: Let's settle this over Quake.
Lawyers: The fuck is Quake?

[DanilordLP]

the holy trinity:
can it run doom?
can it run crysis?
can it run eaglercraft?

[IDKisReal]

This video made me realise how annoying it is that Java and JavaScript have similar names but nothing in common

[IBQ]

If Microsoft can sell a game and then take it away from your library because you didn't migrate your account, I say this is fair game.

[zincaholic]

i love eaglercraft, i introduced my whole technical graphics class to eagler since our pcs are so blocked in school we cant even open youtube. anyways now everyone is failing but we have a 3 month old world hosted on my pc that has every achievement complete lel

[mobas]

Honestly EaglerCraft dev is a legend for making something like this and it's a sad world we're living in where Microsoft can effectively bully every website into deleting his account.

[Shadxws]

This dude actually rewrote all these dependencies from scratch just for Minecraft… Even if the game is gone, he still made massive contributions to the open source community through that alone.

And the fact that he did that in such a short timeframe is mind boggling. Microsoft could’ve acquired the project for dirt cheap compared to the cost of developing it in house and potentially missing out on millions in new revenue. I guess they just want to protect their low end device revenue from bedrock micro transactions.

[fostrate]

I remember this one time I was playing survival Eaglercraft on my chromebook in my study hall with the sound off and a creeper snuck up behind me and I jumped in my seat and the entire class looked at me. Good times.

[friend]

It's actually quite impressive how well it runs on a literal browser

[NICK....]

considering that the entire project can, as far as i get it, be downloaded in under a minute and ran fully offline i doubt it will ever _die_ die

[ggsmpoffical]

As a Eaglercraft server owner, thank you for giving Eaglercraft the video essay it deserves. It really is a cool project.

[djwillcaine]

As a professional javascript developer this was really interesting! Good job getting the technical details accurate and still understandable.

[Infisrael]

I honestly didn't know that SalC1's lawyer was from the stock free images that I use to edit my videos with.

[ludovicdisson]

"Removing all that wasn't necessary"
"All the music is removed"
Something in my heart broke when I heard that

[AndrewBrownK]

dude that is so absurdly impressive that he substituted lwjgl in javascript, like those are some real programmer skills

[howling-wolf]

The best thing about this is that people even now play this old version of Minecraft, which is in my opinion, very much better than what we have right now, especially for new players

[reeeo]

funnily enough, people at my school come back and play on Eaglercraft during class once every year