Multithreading

[IDragonfire]

duplication of:

Formal threading model for the API

The MC server has basically a single “main” thread and lots of other minor threads. Almost all events occur on the main thread (except those that don’t) and similarly almost all methods in the API had to be called from the main thread (again except those that didn’t). In future versions, worlds might be handled on their own thread. Glowstone already does this and there has been suggestions that MC might go that way too. If we say that calling any API method from inside an event handler is al…