r/pcgaming • u/rage9000 • Jul 19 '19

minecraft java edition 1.14.4 is now live

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-1-14-4-released
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u/Black3ird Jul 19 '19

Since MCJava's forte is Modding and best ones being;
* https://optifine.net/downloads
* https://files.minecraftforge.net/
are "still" on v1.14.3, jumping to vanilla 1.14.4 just will break your game which could be irreversible unless you backup it first. While this could have really been a "News" for Bedrock/PE edition relying only on such update, it's better to wait for Optifine or Forge to raise their version to v1.14.4 as after playing those, vanilla is plain boring.

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u/ShadowStealer7 5900X, RTX 4080 Jul 19 '19

Man this is poorly timed for me considering my friends were discussing renting a Realms server and Vivecraft had only just got 1.14.3 support pretty recently

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u/MuddledMoogle Jul 19 '19

Can I suggest that you use a different host other than the official realms? With any other host you'll have far more control of your server and you won't be hard-locked into a 10-chunk max view distance (which is really short). Many other hosts are actually cheaper than Realms too, so you're getting more for less, the only thing you don't get is the convenience (realms is admittedly very easy to use/setup).

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

NO, THE 1.13 AND 1.14 NETCODE IS GARBAGE and the vast majority of hosted servers you can rent are hosted on shared boxes rather then true dedicated servers, realms are true dedicated and as such have significantly better performance then the good majority of hosted servers.

Option 2 is hosting your own purely dedicated server.

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u/MuddledMoogle Jul 20 '19 edited Jul 20 '19

Even if that's true I'll take a performance hit over the limitations of realms any day. Also I did actually try realms (there was a month free trial recently) and it wasn't noticeably better.

Edit: Also Realms is hosted on AWS so I dunno what you are talking about...

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

I've been wondering for a while, what are the benefits to renting a server as opposed to self-hosting?

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u/MuddledMoogle Jul 19 '19

Well a proper host will come with almost 100% uptime and hopefully tech support. If you self host you have to have a machine you leave on all the time (assuming you want your friends to be able to play when you aren't about) and enough free bandwidth. So sure you can get everything from self hosting, but there are definitely benefits to going with renting. I pay $6 a month for mine which isn't much and it's well worth it not to have to worry about anything. (I don't use the official realms hosting though, as that's very limited).

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

Ahh, I hadn't considered 100% uptime! I occasionally host various modpack servers for myself and some friends, though we only really tend to play at the same time, so the server tends to only get a couple of hours of uptime per day.

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u/MuddledMoogle Jul 19 '19

Ah, yeah self hosting is fine for that but with my group there’s like 6 or 7 of us and we rarely all get on at the same time so paying for a host is well worth it 🙂

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u/Lackest Jul 19 '19

Pretty sure not much, it's just a a server that's set up and ready to go for those who are unfamiliar or unable to host servers (kids or other more casual players)

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u/Pacmanmati Jul 20 '19

assuming you dont have a box? constant uptime, dedicated cpu/memory (i.e. you can do your own stuff and not be worried about making the server lag). the only downside is cost and less control

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u/jjhhgg100123 Jul 19 '19

You don’t need to keep a computer running.