u/AbilityVegetable3968

I've been messing around with an idea for a mod that basically makes Minecraft RNG fully deterministic for reliability testing.

The problem with testing farms or other long running builds right now is that Minecraft's RNG isn't reproducible like it is with world gen. It pulls from things like system time and other state, so if you tick sprint a farm until it breaks, you can't just reload the world and expect the exact same failure to happen again anytime soon.

The idea is to change that.

While tick sprinting, the mod could periodically save snapshots of the world. If something breaks 300 hours into a test, you load the latest snapshot and hit play. The exact same RNG sequence happens again, and the farm fails in the exact same way. I'm sure you know that the RNG system influences everything from mob spawning positions and timings to angles that droppers shoot out items.

Everything is saved in a snapshot from scheduled ticks, subticks, subtick ordering, etc which all get restored when you load that up. Except now you're in the actual world instead of digging through a very big and long Flashback recording. You can pause before the failure, inspect anything you want, run commands, change things, test fixes, etc.

You could even send the snapshot to someone else and they'd be able to reproduce the exact same failure on their machine.

I've played around with this and had some small success, but I'm not sure how far I want to take it. Making everything deterministic would be a pretty huge undertaking for what is probably a very niche tool, especially since this is only mostly useful for long-running farm tests.

Still, being able to turn a "1 in 200 hours" farm failure into a 100% reproducible thing seems nice.

Would any of you actually use something like this?

What do you think is truly the reason nothing ever happens? It's because there is no bigger conspiracy! There are no secret societies or some impending new world order or past resets or whatever else beliefs many conspiracy people have. I get why people do want to believe in this stuff. It's because it brings them more comfort.

It feels so much more comforting to know that all this evil and chaos is all a part of some grander scheme or conspiracy rather than admitting it's just chaos. It feels good to think you're in on secrets that most people don't know. At the top, it's probably not secret societies or reptilians or whatever else. It's probably just billionaires fighting each other for power.

There are so many examples we can see in our world today which I can use to disprove all these conspiracy beliefs. But for one, let's say this conspiracy stuff was true, then one thing I heard is that the ultimate end goal of this supposed 'one world power' is to get people to worship AI right? Where AI is planned to be part of some beast system, etc.

If that was the case, then why do so many people hate AI? It's because they are letting the internet be infested with AI slop. It's because they are building all these data-centers that most people hate, especially the ones who live near them. If you walked up to the average joe and told them you wanted to marry chatgpt or some other AI, they would think there is something mentally wrong with you.

So based on all this, they seem to be doing a pretty shit job at getting people to accept their supposed AI tech. People worshipping AI? What a joke... This quite literally proves that there are no secret socities or spiritual components or grander conspiracies.

All in all, we will probably go to the dirt when we die anyways so why not just put our heads down and get through this life. Doesn't it bring you guys peace knowing that we will never exist again? Isn't there no downsides to eternal nonexistence? Life goes by quick anyways so all this bs will be over soon no matter what happens.