On a more serious note: I really hope they improve the mod mechanism, it's really painful to use mods as it stands. And mods are a very big part of Minecraft.
As I understand it, Minecraft will be reimplemented soon anyways?
That would explain why the extant Java version is riddled with years-old bugs and no hope of getting them fixed while they charge full speed ahead with additions to The End and hang-gliding and other shit nobody actually asked for.
Of course, there is no reason to think the reimplementation won't have annoying bugs as well, which also won't be fixed while they continue to add esoteric features out of the blue.
Yeah, I'm salty.
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-51053
Basically they tried to make some improvements to carts in general, fucked that up, then "reverted" that change and since then powered carts don't work. There's even a fix posted a year ago on the damn ticket itself - but apparently they are too busy adding attention-grabbing bullshit to even do a simple copy / paste job in order to fix major flaws in the game.
You'd think, in a game called "Minecraft", that minecarts would get more attention. Alas...
However, now that I've looked at this again, it appears they are finally planning to do something about this problem, where "something" is just removing powered carts altogether: https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/699241247391772672
And don't get me started on boats - though they did eventually fix that after a few years.
The Windows 10 UA is a port from one of the C++ versions (mobile I believe), but has no modding capabilities whatsoever.
Wow. That must have been a feat. Even if you have the symbols an optimizing compiler is going to make this a nightmare with all the inlining etc.
There are, I believe, three distinct versions of the engine: the Java one, the C++ one and I think the console codebase is also separate.