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Minecraft isn’t a game engine… so we spent 5 years building what might be the most advanced game editor in Minecraft
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What do you think is better in the old versions than in the new ones?
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this is the only version of minecraft you should play, anything after this is just updateslop
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I created the John mod 14 years ago and never knew it blew up until recently
14 years ago I was learning how to program as a teenager and got into Minecraft modding. One night in October 2011, I created the John mod. I threw some art together in Paint.NET and created the model using some Minecraft modeling software (can’t remember the name of it for my life) and posted it on Reddit.
I am NOT a horror person, for the record. I got bored and threw it together in one night and mostly left it alone. I was in middle school still and was learning a new hobby.
For whatever reason, the John mod kind of blew up. I didn’t really have time to devote to constantly updating it, partially because of my inability to commit to long-term projects and partially because I was, you know, a child in school. However, it ended up getting stolen by someone by the name of SCMOwns. Was there a demand to make it available for Minecraft updates? Absolutely. SCMOwns took this into his own hands and for whatever reason asked me if it was okay to update it, and then proceeded to ignore my “no” and go ahead and steal the assets I developed. He actually posted a (now deleted) video where he admitted to using the assets I created. He ended up monetizing the John mod as well.
I essentially left the Minecraft community and stopped modding after that, since the whole experience turned me off from ever wanting to deal with this again. I even called out SCMOwns on Twitter years later and he dirty deleted his apology.
That was 14 years ago and I basically just forgot about all the mods I made and stopped playing Minecraft. I graduated high school, went to college, moved out, etc. and had moved on to bigger and better things.
HOWEVER, a friend sent me some fan art of John from Twitter back in like November 2024 and I was actually shocked. Like how was my mod getting fan art 13 years later? That’s when I discovered there were videos with millions of views on YouTube about it (or rather the stolen version) and even versions of the mod being updated to this day (with proper credit from the get-go.) I also learned it was in some mod of another horror game and had a creepypasta about it. Someone was also discussing my Reddit account on Twitter as recently as December 2025! And when I picked up Minecraft again, seeing the Warden and having it canonically be nicknamed Jonathan was actually wild to me. I had no backstory for the mod, no creepypasta, nothing; just a little too much free time as a kid and a curiosity for programming, but after a decade it took on a mind of its own.
Life has changed a lot since I made it and it’s definitely weird looking back at how big it got without me even knowing. I posted about it on my Instagram and people that I had only met within the last couple of years had even played that mod! Things are funny that way, and I’m glad that something I threw together still lives on to this day.
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14 years ago I was learning how to program as a teenager and got into Minecraft modding. One night in October 2011, I created the John mod. I threw some art together in Paint.NET and created the model using some Minecraft modeling software (can’t remember the name of it for my life) and posted it on Reddit.
I am NOT a horror person, for the record. I got bored and threw it together in one night and mostly left it alone. I was in middle school still and was learning a new hobby.
For whatever reason, the John mod kind of blew up. I didn’t really have time to devote to constantly updating it, partially because of my inability to commit to long-term projects and partially because I was, you know, a child in school. However, it ended up getting stolen by someone by the name of SCMOwns. Was there a demand to make it available for Minecraft updates? Absolutely. SCMOwns took this into his own hands and for whatever reason asked me if it was okay to update it, and then proceeded to ignore my “no” and go ahead and steal the assets I developed. He actually posted a (now deleted) video where he admitted to using the assets I created. He ended up monetizing the John mod as well.
I essentially left the Minecraft community and stopped modding after that, since the whole experience turned me off from ever wanting to deal with this again. I even called out SCMOwns on Twitter years later and he dirty deleted his apology.
That was 14 years ago and I basically just forgot about all the mods I made and stopped playing Minecraft. I graduated high school, went to college, moved out, etc. and had moved on to bigger and better things.
HOWEVER, a friend sent me some fan art of John from Twitter back in like November 2024 and I was actually shocked. Like how was my mod getting fan art 13 years later? That’s when I discovered there were videos with millions of views on YouTube about it (or rather the stolen version) and even versions of the mod being updated to this day (with proper credit from the get-go.) I also learned it was in some mod of another horror game and had a creepypasta about it. Someone was also discussing my Reddit account on Twitter as recently as December 2025! And when I picked up Minecraft again, seeing the Warden and having it canonically be nicknamed Jonathan was actually wild to me. I had no backstory for the mod, no creepypasta, nothing; just a little too much free time as a kid and a curiosity for programming, but after a decade it took on a mind of its own.
Life has changed a lot since I made it and it’s definitely weird looking back at how big it got without me even knowing. I posted about it on my Instagram and people that I had only met within the last couple of years had even played that mod! Things are funny that way, and I’m glad that something I threw together still lives on to this day.
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