Show Notes
This week, the crew is back together and back in action, interviewing modded Minecraft's arguably most influential figure - the developer of Quark, Psi, Botania, and so many others - none other than Vazkii. Vazkii's opinions on AI, MCreator, the "botania is a tech mod" debate, how he got started in modded, why he thinks you should see him as just a random guy and so much more - all in this funkalicious episode!
Siuol's audio got cut out for the first ~18 minutes of the episode, sorry about that. Wouldn't be a JEO episode without technical issues would it ;)
Violet Moon Discord: https://discord.gg/vm The interview Vazkii was talking about: https://blog.curseforge.com/10-questions-with-vazkii/ Vazkii's talk at CurseForge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDSulO6VjcE The CLAUDE.md file Vazkii was talking about: https://github.com/VazkiiMods/Quark/blob/master/CLAUDE.md
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro 02:53 Why Vazkii thinks Siuol is more useful than him 12:09 Vazkii gets MCreator users 14:58 Why Vazkii won't play your modpack 18:59 The difference behind an AI triple jump mod and a human triple jump mod 31:37 Your Botania AI PR will NOT be merged 38:58 Why Vazkii vibe-coded a Pokemon card website 42:31 Vazkii: "Using AI is like getting a level 50 sword" 50:04 We are the reason AI bros are the way they are 55:18 Why Vazkii think Mojang devs are NOT lazy 1:00:04 Vazkii: "I will NEVER sign on an LTS version" 1:06:01 Vazkii's weird obsession with balls 1:09:01 Why Vazkii's first mod that added one block is lost media 1:15:46 Botania got carried by Direwolf20 1:18:00 How Vazkii met Jeb 1:21:03 Vazkii: "All your heroes ARE just guys" 1:40:33 Botania was made out of boredom 1:42:01 The birth, death, and revival of Vanilla+ 1:47:16 Why we should revive mod showcases 1:52:29 Vazkii was rejected a marketable plushie 1:56:12 Vazkii: "Endoflame spamming is my fault, but also packdevs'" 2:01:55 Why Vazkii likes his Minecraft progression-less 2:05:48 Vazkii: "My modpacks are bold statements" 2:12:27 Why Vazkii wants you to disable Botania's features 2:18:02 Siuol and Vazkii DESPISE this creation of theirs 2:19:51 Why Vazkii will NEVER combine these 2 mods 2:21:07 Vazkii: "I love mario and don't care about GregTech" 2:22:36 Why Vazkii would NOT be successful if he started today 2:28:02 How this thing™ got created 2:30:29 Vazkii: "Supplementaries is NOT Vanilla+" 2:31:13 Why Vazkii won't upload malware to Modrinth 2:34:56 Vazkii: "Essential IS bloatware, but..." 2:41:02 The Funny Machine: "How many main mods do you need for a modpack?" 2:45:11 Why Vazkii does not think mixins belong in KubeJS 2:51:44 Vazkii MIGHT be at the next BlanketCon... 2:53:21 Outro (feat. MTR)
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Camerawork by: Akoto090 Title and timestamps by: G_cat
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