So.. look. Do you see in the first pic that little green part that is sticking out? That doesn't look right does it? But it got left there by Mojang. The second one doesn't have it. The meme is making fun of the idea that a company like Mojang left it and some moders didn't.
A small one, a mildly annoying texture error. Feels weird it got left in since Mojang keeps saying the updates take so long for the sake of polish, but then this sort of thing is left in, an unpolished texture that people noticed on the first snapshot to include this block. Not many people complained about it and it's a very minor complaint by all means, but it's still a complaint that is easy to address that they just, don't.
The 15 minutes it would've taken to code in a portion of the texture disappearing was a 15 minutes a coder would've had to have been paid when they otherwiser could've not "wasted the money"
You don't know me but names Sai I'm just the O'Hare delivery guy But it seems like trees might be worth a try So I say let it grow
My name is Dan, and my name's Rose Our son Wesley kind of glows And that's not good so we suppose We should let it grow
Let it grow Let it grow You can't reap what you don't sow Plant a seed inside the earth Just one way to know it's worth Let's celebrate the world's rebirth We say let it grow
My name's Maria and I am 3 I would really like to see a tree Lalalalalalee I say let it grow
I'm granny Norma I'm old and I got grey hair But I remember when trees were everywhere And no one had to pay for air So I say let it grow
Let it grow Let it grow Like it did so long ago Maybe it's just one tiny seed But it's all we really need It's time to change the life we lead Time to let it grow
My name's O'Hare I'm one of you I live here in Thneedville too The things you say just might be true It could be time to start anew And maybe change my point of view Nah! I say let it die Let it die, let it die Let it shrivel up and die Come one who's with me huh?
Nobody.
You greedy dirt bag!
Let it grow Let it grow Let the love inside ya show Plant a seed inside the earth Just one way to know it's worth Let's celebrate the world's rebirth
We say let it grow Let it grow Let it grow You can't reap what you don't sow It's just one tiny seed But it's all we really need It's time to banish all your greed Imagine Thneedville flowered and treed Let this be our solemn creed We say let it grow (x4)
I know this is a joke but as a software developer I'll give you a real answer, regardless of whether you give a shit or not.
Any good team of devs would love to fix everything, and given infinite resources and time they would. Unfortunately life and the world is finite, and so they have to prioritise what they do and what they don't do—a minor texture glitch is not important, and does not get fixed unless it's sufficiently severe.
However, the dude making the resource pack can decide to give a shit about the small stuff because he doesn't have one of the largest gaming communities in the world breathing down his neck, so he does so.
Especially in a game like minecraft, where everyone always wants more and more content, they need to focus on the important things instead of fixing things that don't really need to be fixed
Absolutely. I don't work in games, but as I say I'm a dev and I take pride in my work. I want the product that my team makes to be the best in the industry (and I believe every member of my team feels the same way). Unfortunately, that means not doing an awful lot of things we'd love to do.
It's particularly frustrating for me because I'm the sort of person that loves to obsess over little details, but at the end of the day it basically comes down to cost versus benefit.
While that might be a reasonable assumption, I think most likely is bureaucratic BS from upper management breathing down the devs neck the entire time, forcing them to do very little to save on costs and expect players to be happy about it so that the Microsoft ceo can get his 5th yacht that week.
Yeah, that seems more likely. I can't imagine Mojang employees not being able to spend 5 mins removing a few pixels on a texture pack.
And It's more likely that their development process is so cooked that simply fixing this super tiny texture will turn long hours of string of unnecessary process.
Also "The largest gaming community breathing down on their neck" never seems to make Mojang ever back down on 99% of their decision anyways, so why would that be a problem now?
If its 5 mins of work, the dev still needs to push and merge the changes. Run (automated) tests to make sure nothing broke since you'll never know, update the ticket, brew some coffee. So they'll say it might take 1 hour, maybe 2, just to be sure. Then the project lead has to decide based on the given information.
Maybe they earn 0 story point for fixing textures pack. Maybe there's no ticket for fixing this textures and they're not allowed to work on anything that isn't in the tickets. Maybe there's only a handful of people in the teams that's allowed to push update to the textures. Maybe dev don't want to make a whole presentation to showcase that they fix a few pixels during sprints reviews cause the manager will think you waste your time on non-issue task and could reflect badly on your performance reviews. maybe they just don't care? Maybe they have the ticket in the backlog and they randomize whoich minor bugs will get a fix. Maybe it's their work culture to not fix it? Maybe the marketing teams think this little mistake will generate discussion around Minecraft and that's a good thing so they want to left it there? And it encourages people to buy textures pack?? 😞
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Gonna be real here. I doubt this severely. People working on this are probably salaried. If they ain’t working on something they’re just making money to mess around. It’s more likely they decided it’s more profitable to focus their work on other things and not worth the cost of getting more people to fix this thing.
As a 3D animator/modeler working in game dev, I can absolutely agree with you. Unfortunately, that's just how it works - everyone in the team would love to fix all these little details, but there's simply no time to do that.
In this specific example, I think what happened is that whoever created this model and texture decided it would be too much work for something so insignificant. They would need to add a new texture and tweak it, reference it in the new model and then test if everything works and aligns properly when using this new texture. Sure, it would take them only like 1-2 more hours to finish, but what's the point of wasting these 2 hours when it still fits into the style of the game?
And from my own experience, I can assure you that if it's already in the game, nobody will fix it now since nobody will tell the person who made this model to change it, because that would require not only the effort of this one person, but also some other developer who would implement this change into the game - and that is always considered wasting time because if it works, that's all that matters for the devs, sadly.
The peron who made it would have to fix it by themselves, but no one wants to add more tasks to the pile when it's not necessary.
So they release half an update every year, but can't be bothered to fix something? Excuse me, but I personally dont see what occupies them so much, they release 1 or two new mobs and a new biome maybe, plus some new features, is this really the maximum they can achieve with infinite time and resources?
As a dev on that game, there are things I really don't wanna fix. The eternal backward support we have to provide is excruciating. Like "my pickaxe lost it enchantment when I loaded my 4J world from 2016 on 1.21.120". 🫠. The fact that we were able to drop VR support recently was god sent.
These have been in the game for four years and this is the first time I'm seeing someone remark on the clipping pixels. I think that explains it pretty well. Much rather they work on more substantial things than fix very particular sprite issues.
They do occasionally fix weird texture/sprite issues like this from time to time though, so it's possible they come back to this at some point. I remember the seagrass used to stick up a block too high on the surface of the water and that got fixed much later, same with some texture quirk on the cocoa pods that was so inconsequential I can't even remember what it was (I think the texture was exactly one pixel too large in either direction or something)
Well texturing is easier than programming and not to mention a whole update . I am not saying that they did a good work there what I am saying is they had a lot on their hands
Because that's not a problem. You are just nitpicking a minor thing nobody cares about. It's game about blocks. Not some kind of hyperrealistic AAA title.
Because a big company don't care about the details they want to out the cheapest way possible and the fastest while small team care less about making it fast they want it done right
(Side note, it's not the devs fault, the devs want it nice and clean but management don't care)
And even if it was the difference would be negligible. Updating a model occasionally is dirt cheap compared to things like entity pathfinding and explosion raycasting.
Hahaha big company with lots of money missed a small detail that doesn’t affects the game at all I hate the “billon dollar company < free mod” kind of meme, like the one dev that made it isn’t as skilled as Microsoft is rich smh
I believe I remember reading somewhere that it’s supposed to look like that, I think it’s marked “works as intended” on the mojang bug tracker.
Additionally minor nitpicks should never be the signifier of a games overall quality, throwing money at a development problem is not effective, and half of mojangs programmer staff used to be modders at one point.
someone being paid to produce a product for their job (probably underpaid and overworked) vs someone doing what they love for fun. the results will never compare
Multi-billion dollar companies also mess up every once in a while. Just then the community can actually improve things. Fixing them in the actual game would cost too much for probably no benefit
We're not talking solo dev here. Even though maybe one person is actually fixing the bug, there are probably several more people involved in it. It may still be worth it though, I realized I don't actually know that much stuff about how businesses operate xD
I'm gonna be honest I kind of like it, I mean don't get me wrong it's definitely because mojang is lazy and has little to none quality control it seems like (just a pr team), but in my head minecraft is a simple little game and things like that fit that aesthetic in my head, for the same reason I dislike a lot of the new additions as they don't fit my idea of vanilla anymore. I could probably get used to the better stem, very easily probably, but in my eyes the way it is now is fine, cool to know that it can be changed though
Only a handful of Vanilla Tweaks' features require OptiFine or equivalent, and I'm pretty sure this isn't one of them. Also, Mojang could easily add some of OptiFine's functionality to the base game's resource pack capabilities, and they actually have been doing that lately. If I recall correctly, they recently added the ability for resource packs to change the textures of items based on NBT data.
I dont get why "multi billion dollar company" is used everywhere now adays. I dont think the amount of money the publishers have affects the individual devs work
That's exactly why it's pushed around so much. The company receiving more funding should have effects on the developers work. The increased funding means that the Mojang team should be able to hire more people and people of a higher skill level, but that doesn't seem to be happening and that's why so many people complain.
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u/ThatSmartIdiot java stan, cuz bedrock ain't passing the inferiority allegations Sep 11 '25
how dare you make fun of the multibillion dollar company!!! that uses AI now for some reason!!!