Minecraft krijgt modding-support

Mojang heeft aangekondigd dat ze bezig zijn om mod development te implementeren voor Minecraft. Ze willen  een 'fresh server API' creëren en deze daarna uitbreiden om client side modding toe te staan via Bukkit. Dit betekent overigens wel dat de huidige API overboord gaat ten faveure van de nieuwe, nog te ontwikkelen API.

"The plan is to build a fresh server API, and then extend it to support client-side modding (in one way or another). We will try to make it easy for Bukkit users to convert if they wish to do so, but backwards compatibility is not guaranteed.

We will, however, help Bukkit to be compatible with 1.2, to avoid having a long gap while you wait for the official Minecraft server to catch up. We hope that this will help the quality of Minecraft multi-player to improve, both for large and private family servers, while still being able to add fun stuff for the bigger audience."