Hmm. Let me get back to you on that when I get home. It may actually not allow dynamic lighting unless you’re using a shader pack that supports it so you may need to look for a simple shader that does dynamic lighting but none of the other fancy performance-sucking features. I thought I remember the “internal shaders” activated from shader settings having an option for dynamic lights. However that might have just been an optifine thing, not iris.

Do note that iris is graphical only. Any dynamic lighting it creates does not change block light states. Lamb dynamic lights, from what I see, is a legitimate lighting engine change that updates block states with your player movement. Dunno if that matters to you or not.

I believe the Iris Mod supports dynamic lighting via internal shaders. It has also already updated to 1.20.1. (also install Sodium along side it for a decent FPS boost)

Least power-drunk Reddit mod ever

Ooh, vintage story looks promising. I’ll always stick to Minecraft, but I might give that one a try as the driven progression looks a little more guided and that’s something I like sometimes. Thanks!

Pre-ordering any kind of digital good is a terrible idea, and why we’ve ended up in such a terrible state of release. Why would they bother making a quality product when the masses will throw cash at them without having even seen the final product?

At least you’ve learned now- never pre-order, ever ever.

Depending on the kind of player you are, single player can definitely be the best way- however, a small, close-knit group of friends together on a server is another experience all together. If you ever suffer from the single player burn out of “man, I don’t know what I should do next time”- the friends really help with that.

Absolutely. The freedom makes the game. And the replayability is effectively infinite.

Getting into different playstyles is something I always struggle with. I always fall into the same rut of grind a bunch of building material, start huge projects, finish maybe one of them, abandon world. Maybe I’ll try to do things smaller this summer too. :)

It really has. And that’s the best part: if you like playing fast and hardcore, Minecraft and many servers let you do that. But if you want to play slow- it will do that just as well. Sandboxes are awesome.

All these websites have almost always been net cash flow negative. They bleed venture capital to provide a service below cost in order to build a user base.

The problem now is interest rates have spiked. Rates have been basically zilch for much of the internet’s history over the past 20+ years, so sites could actually operate for quite some time on super cheap debt that they almost never had to repay. And venture capital firms would just keep pouring money into the “next best thing”.

Now that debt is rapidly becoming much more expensive to maintain, and those VC investors want their chunk of the pie back in their pockets. And they are going to extract it from every single one of these centralized services by whatever force is necessary. It’s only just getting started, you watch.