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I think the most recent Minecraft release (1.18) actually requires Java 17?

They've only recently been bumping Java versions.

For the longest time, it was 6, then 8, and it stayed on 8 for years. Iirc 1.17 was a jump to Java 16 after a lot of internal reworking, and I guess with Java 17 being LTS, thats why they've moved to that.

So the parent poster was in fact wrong about Minecraft using Java 8.

Not really. Only the two most recent major versions of Minecraft use Java 16/17. A lot, possibly most, of the online community still plays on old versions 1.8.9 and 1.12.2 which use Java 8.

> 1.8.9 and 1.12.2

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the first favored by pay-to-win servers and pvp specializing servers, while 1.12.2 is favored for modding? Both seem pretty niche to me, albeit noisy niches. There have been several substantial updates to the game since 1.12 and I'm quite sure most players are presently on 1.18 or at least 1.17. And I don't have much sympathy for the plight of those P2W servers.

1.14.4 works just fine on jdk 1.8, modded or otherwise. I know this, because I helped get it running properly with Forge integration on Raspberry Pi, and am working on building out an Aarch64 base Linux image for more recent versions to leverage the 8GB version of the Pi for maybe supporting a mod or two. Someone else may have done it already, but it's more an exercise in cross-compiling for me.

The lack of a 64 bit JDK build was the big blocker a couple years ago. Haven't checked back to see if Raspbian or anyone else got around to it.

I can second that modules were a way bigger deal than people here seem to be willing to admit to. I avoided 9+ like the plague because redefining one of your base visibility modifiers and the inevitable charlie-foxtrot that would entail, plus Oracles license shenanigans was just not something I was willing to wade through.

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