How Orespawn's Mod Creator Went Insane

At one point, Orespawn was one of Minecraft's most popular mods. However, behind the scenes lies a long history of greed, deception, and even doxxing.

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[kekskruemel]

things went from
a slight red flag which might just been for humor
to HOLY SHIT HES GONE INSANE WHAT DRUGS DID HE TAKE WHO IS THIS PERSON
real fast

[LiterallyMe]

ah yes. a 60+ year old guy who adds girlfriends in minecraft. Totally not weird

[ToxicMothBoi]

Microsoft "owning" the mod just means you cant SELL it....which is normal for all minecraft
Mans killed his braincells by eating too much aluminum foil

[ImCatMaid]

tbh its not illegal to make your own mod and say its a spiritual successor to orespawn, especially if you use your own textures because he never trademarked anything on top of the fact that its literally just a minecraft mod. I can't wait for someone to remake the mod and spit in his face when he throws a fit like every time before

[AnasX]

who thought that a 60 year old man(who seems like to wear aluminum foil before he sleeps)would be responsible for such a massive old mod. 💀

[whitebeartigtig]

While a much smaller bit of drama, there was a time when Danger (or whoever was working for him) threatened to sue MCArchive for both hosting old builds of the mod and having source code for the private developer build that was leaked on their own server. Nothing ever came of it, but it is something you wouldn't really believe unless you were there.

MCArchive still hosts OreSpawn for anyone who wants it. And many other old mods that are awesome!

[bunnyfrosting]

“Went insane”
*was not well from the very beginning*

[robsterthelobster]

it's a funny thought of someone getting nostalgic for an old minecraft mod and look it up only to be immediately met with an insane mans ramblings about vaccinations

[catbatrat]

Tbh, when the dude called Microsoft "the devil", my immediate thought was "That's fair."

[coffeecrashed]

when a man rants to a fake block man about the gays, you know he's lost it.

[VexNovaYT]

It's crazy seeing a man 40 years older than me acting 10 years younger than me.

[intercontinentalballisticp]

Ok, I did a little research on the controversy, and here is a little more context. Regarding the whole EULA thing, what happened was that when danger was originally going to update orespawn to 1.8, he wanted to monitize the mod and make it so there were multiple "versions" like a regular mod version and a Premium mod version that had features like Mobzilla and other bosses/items behind a PAYWALL. The "problem" that danger was so pissed about was that the Microsoft EULA prevents people from selling/monetizing a mod/mods they make for minecraft. Though if he really needed money, he could have just made merchandise OF the mod like T-shirts, ect., and that would have been perfectly fine. Then he moved orespawn over to his third-party minecraft game danger zone where it would sit for years. When the popularity spike hit minecraft in 2019, with tons of people asking him to update orespawn, he finally caved and said he would work to update the mod to 1.12. The reason danger gave for the go-fund-me was to help pay modders that would assist him with updating the mod as orespawn is a really big mod. Well, it turns out that the money from the go-fund-me was used to try and MAKE a VR PORT OF DANGER ZONE INSTEAD OF PAYING MODDERS to help update ORESPAWN. Because of this and one of the modders leaking a prototype build of the orespawn update, the modders and danger stared to conflicting with each other on discord, and the whole discord fiasco happened. Afterward, all the modders who helped with orespawn left. This is probably what pushed danger over the edge as ANYONE who tried to make a mod that replicated orespawn or a mod that was just INSPIRED BY ORESPAWN was given heavy harassment by danger as he would try to force them to take-down their mods, a prime example being insanity craft. He would send them cease and desists in the mail and threaten legal actions and lawsuits over "stolen" assets that he did not own in the first place. Comment contined in replies 👇

[prizm]

I have known about this mod for ages but I never knew what happened behind the scenes. Great video, keep it up!

[DiamondMaster]

3:58 I'm fairly certain there are at least some instances of somewhat popular Minecraft mods being copied/plagiarized by certain Minecraft marketplace developers to sell for their own profit. Kinda sucks, and Microsoft making the whole microtransactions marketplace in the first place has been the catalyst for stuff like this happening, but i dont think its entirely Microsoft's fault, unless they dont crack down on exact plagurism of the mods...

[cherenkov_blue]

This is like the TempleOS of minecraft. Crazy, conspiratorial guy with an abrasive personality but clearly a lot of programming knowledge.

[winkystinky]

I manually removed the girlfriends. It's the perfect mod now.

[shroomer]

If I had a nickel for every time a mentally unstable programmer became an online micro celebrity/rabbit hole I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[HXISE]

a 60 y/o is telling me that we are yappin nahh💀🙏🏽

[amandaletcher]

God orespawn was my childhood it's just such a shame with what happened f*** you danger and thank you for chaos awakens team for creating orespawn for modern minecraft

[ultimatedragon]

I think the saddest thing about this whole thing is that Danger initially made Orespawn because his son was a huge minecraft fan at the time. Heartbreaking that a fathers attempt to try and connect with his kid over something turned into a bitter, spiteful old man trying to cling onto his 10 minutes of fame to spout conspiratorial and hateful messages.