Ya, I'm going to have to suspend my work on the project as well

. I have been a little inactive the past few versions, and I hope that what i added was a good contrib

. If anyone wants help with modding, I am here and I also give java lessons

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With what David said, Notch is a very good coder, but he did not design this game to be modded... because the code is plainly a bitch to work with. The coloring system just doesn't make sense.. it doesn't use any of the amazing java graphics to build what it should.
The best mod for this game would be a mod that would improve it. That would take notch's code, and totally redo it. But that is up the modders, I have had a lot of fun with minicraft, and minicraft+, and I am reallly excited to work with david on our new secret project

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