Are you referring to Minecraft Pi Edition that came with Raspberry Pi OS back in the day? The one made in C++ instead of the original Java edition?

> run both server and client when in singleplayer - doubles memory use

When did this change? It's been like that for as long as I can remember. It's actually a very common thing for games to do because it requires less code. Also it doesn't actually double memory use - game content can be shared, textures/meshes/audio is only on the client, etc. The chunk and entity data would need to be duplicated but they should be smaller.

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inigyou 11 hours ago | parent [-]

1.3, not beta 1.3. Chunk data was traditionally the biggest part of Minecraft's memory use until they added a bunch more garbage.

	▲	Rohansi 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting they switched after a couple years! > Chunk data was traditionally the biggest part of Minecraft's memory use until they added a bunch more garbage. But that's only really because it is extremely light on assets that are typically large in other games. I'm a bit indifferent about this. Obviously they made a lot of decisions that aren't good for performance but it's a tradeoff. Notch was most productive working in Java so he could pump out updates quicker, and it helped with modding even though builds were obfuscated. NBT helped maintain backwards compatibility of worlds and probably helped with modding too. If they had done things differently then Minecraft may not have been the huge success that it is.