It is! Here’s a screen that demonstrates that it’s not just a protocol hack and all the 1.8 features, blocks and mobs work:
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I think it may have some legal issues, it distributes the Minecraft binaries inside the jar
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It definitely does. And it’s also affected by the EULA, you have to agree to it the first time the server is starting.
Ok, where are the packages ?
I still bet my money on sponge thought. Even without a working release.
Sponge has forge support. And thats all I need.
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Wait until you look at PluginBase
I don’t know what event handling is, but man, this is amazing.
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http://weknowgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/fuck-this-im-out-llama.gif
So this server distribution has:
- No Event bus.
- No packages
- Tons of duplication
EDIT: Sponge won 
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A handful of devs at best, dubious legal status etc
No thank you
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Where are all these small projects coming from?? Lol, chances are this isn’t going to be the last one we will see before sponge is out, not by a long shot.
Does not look legal. If you’re going to use the 1.8 jar and not make something from the ground up, do what forge does and inject code into it. Also, that event system is very primitive (looks like an override based one?). Look into annotation based event systems, it’s probably worth your while to create; if your code is open sourced then I can possibly assist you with this.
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Just to make this clear: I’m not part of Rainbow, i just wanted to share the link.
In my opinion Sponge has no real competition. These Sponge vs X threads are pretty pointless.
We have the community and the highly knowledgeable devs (Not saying others wont have good devs… just I believe Sponge’s to be more suited to the task). Even if we don’t have downloads out yet, I personally think that works better in Sponge’s favour as it shows we aren’t putting out any half arsed content. What Sponge will deliver will hopefully be a quality API which functions as intended. The time it takes is partially irrelevant (within reason)
I can’t see much standing up to Sponge in the grand scheme of things.
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Sponge might have a great community, but what else ? Sure sk89q post some impressive stuff about how great sponge is going to be, but so far we haven’t seen much. The github haven’t been updated for days…
I’m not convinced that sponge is going to be the best. But we’ll see.
Project rainbow, might have a website that looks like something from the 90’s but at least he managed to create something that works. Great work
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The Sponge community don’t shun competition, as was made clear with the Husk topic, but understand the reason most of us are here is because Bukkit or some fork of Bukkit was shut down. Most of us probably won’t trust Rainbow to be very long-lived because it looks to be doing something similar to what Bukkit did.
It’s been noted that the developers actually have lives. Surprising, isn’t it? On top of that, it’s not necessary for them to update daily, or by any fixed schedule. They can update just as much over a longer period without committing it to GitHub.
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No need to get defensive on the sponge teams behalf. I wouldn’t have the time to commit to a project of this size, so I get that. But I’m saying that project rainbow actually made something that can be used. Where I’m not convinced that Sponge will be ready anytime soon.
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- Forge isnt even out yet. And Sponge depends on Forge.
- What cool Rainbow has? In terms of plugin dev. it’s quite bad, because of very simple API. And why did you need bukkit? For plugins.
ATM Sponge has way better API, than Rainbow. Implementation cant be complete until Forge for 1.8 is out.
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Question is for how long? How long will they be able to manage their code?
The whole point of Sponge is make something that last forever.
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I have to admit, it is cool to have all these different APIs for server modding pop up more now.
I also like how they have a working version but it to me seems like it is limited in what it can become since it looks heavily smiler to bukkit. While Sponge has the forge backing which opens up a lot more opportunities for server creators to do.
Oh no, no progress for days. But you’re ignoring the fact that they’ve gotten A LOT done in the short time this project has existed. It’s not functional, it’s not useable, but it’s a hell of a lot better than an unreliable API that might disappear whenever ONE PERSON so damn well pleases.
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Definitely going to get striked. Good bye, Rainbow…
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Honestly, the only time I ever hear about these other mod APIs is when they drag themselves on Sponge’s forums to preach that they’re the best.
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