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Nathan Adams

Early Mojang developer and creator of Bukkit

Company Mojang ↗

u/Dinnerbone ↗Personal account

How we know it's theirs

His 2013 r/Minecraft AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 6 posts and 20 comments from u/Dinnerbone, dated 2012 to 2020, most often in r/Minecraft and r/gaming.

Best moment

A redditor posted in r/Minecraft

BIG NEWS! We have found the SEED of Minecraft's title-screen background PANORAMA!

Everyone should be familiar with this world. It's the one that always appeared on Minecraft's main-menu (title-screen), blurred and slowly rotating around. It first appeared in 2011 for Minecraft Beta 1.8 and stayed for many years, until it was only recently replaced in 1.13 and…

u/Dinnerbone replied

Interesting stuff, nice work! The first title screen panorama was actually originally in-game render of a live world, with custom worldgen and the seed "splash" `100`. I would have figured this was a screenshot from that, but consider me surprised…

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Interesting stuff, nice work!

The first title screen panorama was actually originally in-game render of a live world, with custom worldgen and the seed ~~"splash"~~ 100. I would have figured this was a screenshot from that, but consider me surprised and impressed! :D

Edit: It turns out that was an even earlier panorama, and the one in this post came later. The first one was never released, though. Here's a screenshot of what it would have looked like: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/721776112014721096/734129117058039808/unknown.png

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/Minecraft

On “"For those of you who don't know why the API is taking so long: it's like rebuilding the engines of a jet in the middle of a long flight" @Dinnerbone”

What i do not understand is why they do not fully prioritize the api. Because using his analogy, they now have one team trying to rebuild the engines of the jet while another team is still actively working on making the current engines more complicated. If they'd first finish…

u/Dinnerbone replied

You overestimate how many people there are working on Minecraft. There are currently 5 developers on the Minecraft PC team: - Jeb - Myself, creator of Bukkit - (pretty much) all your server mods are using this - Grum, also…

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You overestimate how many people there are working on Minecraft.

There are currently 5 developers on the Minecraft PC team:

Jeb
Myself, creator of Bukkit - (pretty much) all your server mods are using this
Grum, also a creator of Bukkit
Searge, creator of MCP - (pretty much) all your client mods are using this
TheMogMiner, cool rendering engineer

The focus is as follows:

Jeb is currently focusing on MC:PE, but otherwise works on the gameplay of Minecraft.
I work towards making the codebase cleaner, refactoring systems towards something we can expose through an API.
Grum works towards making the codebase cleaner, refactoring systems towards something we can expose through an API.
Searge works towards making the codebase cleaner, refactoring systems towards something we can expose through an API.
TheMogMiner works towards making the codebase cleaner, refactoring systems towards something we can expose through an API.

Believe me, we're prioritizing the API :)

A redditor wrote in r/Minecraft

On “a QR code hidden in the snow leads to 1.9 announcement”

Everyone does realize what day it is, right?

u/Dinnerbone replied

I hoped this would go unnoticed until after april fools. It is not a joke.

A redditor wrote in r/Minecraft

On “I am Dinnerbone, a Minecraft developer. Ask Me Absolutely Anything.”

Hi, Here's another "will you add x?!" post for you... Sorry.. Basically, I am deaf... and I wish for subtitles, to allow me to enjoy the game a little closer to the complete experience... (The game XIII completely immersed me with its comic-book style 3d positioned subtitles) I…

u/Dinnerbone replied

... Huh. I never thought about this. I'll bring it up with the team :)