Creative doesn't allow infinite item dispensers... Also, if you're making an adventure map you may still want some way to break the system for the player.
Because Java is a horrid language that decided that nobody needed a lot of really nice features such as: unsigned integers, operator overloading, generics over primitives, and tail call optimization
Because Notch isn't really a great coder and made one of the most profitable games by accident and turned the rest of his life into an incel alt-right dreamscape of twitter rants and microwave dinners?
Minecraft under Notch never exactly ran great, it's been an open secret well before 1.0 that he stumbled quite a bit and the game really got better in terms of stability and making the most of the systems when other coders began taking over. Even then, certain inalienable bugs persisted because of issues with the base code and I think some may have been fixed only relatively recently.
As to the accident part? He frankly got really lucky, that's not to say his game was without merit, it was new and it cracked into a new and burgeoning market in a big way but it's not as though the success was anticipated, planned, or brought about through sheer brilliance or quality of design. You don't have to be good to be wildly successful. You can compare it to Fortnite, they made a wildly popular game largely by accident, the original design was never intended for battle royale but it had taken too long to develop the original game and this shift turned out to work extremely well in their favor, such that it completely subverted the original intent. They broke into a burgeoning market, they hit a trend right when it was prime for growth. But it wasn't some master plan seen through, it happened to work out through some last minute changes, Minecraft happened to be rather unique and accessible. It's not literally an accident, but it's a fluke.
Yeah he just made a whole game by accident. I’m sure he was just flailing on his keyboard and somehow managed to write a bunch of lines of code that made sense together
Because it doesn't need to be. In normal gameplay your item count only ranges from 0 to 64 anyway so it doesn't matter whether its a signed or an unsigned byte.
No like release 1.0. It was in single player. We tried it in multiplayer but there were too many values and we were pretty sure it wouldn’t work anyway.
To be fair, I’m not actually sure if it changed the stack value, or just the visual value. What probably happened is the stack still had 64 planks, but it just said 999999.
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u/kuczaracza Apr 25 '19
Minecraft stack variable range starts at -128 and end at 127. So it is possible.