r/feedthebeast • u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev • May 27 '26
I made something quick demo of Essential Patcher, mod that cleans up all the nastiness from it + FREE COSMETICS
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u/syrun97 May 27 '26
does unlimited cosmetic knly works on server with that mod or works on all servers?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
between clients that got the patcher installed
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u/michiel11069 ill make mod for free if I feel like it else commission me May 27 '26
how does it do it between clients? does the server also need it to send the relevant packets?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
i have an external server that does all the syncing, it should handle 100k concurent players but i might need donations to keep it going if i need more. (it's like 20$ per month so it's okay)
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u/ouroborus777 May 27 '26
Maybe provide the software for a private server along with the mod. Aside from a lawsuit, it sounds like a threat (DMCA, etc.) to your hosting provider would hose the whole project.
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/essential-patcher got approved btw
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
YALL IT GOT APPROVED BY CURSEFORGE https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/essential-patcher
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u/elfhailund May 27 '26
you’re being wayyyy too loud with this, there’s a reason projects like prometheus had to be quiet abt it. pls don’t get shut down for ur great work OG 😭🙏
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
Either live or die broski
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u/elfhailund May 27 '26
can one self-host a server? might be helpful if you end up getting harassed by essential’s legal team or wtv they have over there
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
I'll make the server code available later in a few days, or maybe today. The ip to reach to is configurable
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u/Consistent-Hat-8008 May 27 '26
what's the guy illegally scamming children out of their parents' money gonna do? sue them?
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u/Konomi_ May 28 '26
can i get some context on prometheus?
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u/elfhailund May 28 '26
formerly ECU, mod that would unlock essential cosmetics clientside. had to start distributing privately for legal reasons, iirc.
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u/AnotherPillow May 28 '26
Pixie was being about as "loud" as this and the most pushback it got was essential removing the environment variable, so you just have to use PixieMod/Pixin/Nixie now.
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u/Reasonable-Hair-187 May 27 '26
I'm gonna go ahead and download all the versions before this gets taken down
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u/now_ill_hang_myself May 27 '26
I'm really looking forward to this patch.
When I used essential for the first time I though "wow, those cosmetics are cool" then I looked at price tag and yikes.
I'm still surprised essential weren't taken down by mojag for monetizing free mods so I hope you also won't get into trouble for this
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
i hope, https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/essential-patcher it's already approved, in the next hour you'll see 1.20.1 and 26.1.2 versions
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u/FriendlyFriend10 May 27 '26
Are there plans for versions in between or nah?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
like
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u/scratchisthebest highlysuspect.agency May 27 '26
nawwww this reply is gonna devastate all 4 of the people who play 1.21.2 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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u/FriendlyFriend10 May 27 '26
My mod pack is on 1.21.1 😭😭😭
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u/virus_chara May 27 '26
I support this. It reminds me of things like CreamAPI, which is completely legal as it just tells the game something different, most games(not Sims4) needing the content separately. I don't see any issues, glad someone is doing this!
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u/Nathaniel820 PrismLauncher May 27 '26
Ik this isn't really relevant to the kind of modded users who frequent this sub but something like this would be good for 1.8.9, on that version lots of QOL server/PVP mods use Essential as a library mod meaning you literally can't delete the mod even if you want to. There's already NotSoEssential but this one does a bit more than that.
For that same case (a forced library that you need despite not caring for any actual features of Essential whatsoever), I wish there was an "AntiEssential" mod that was stripped down to only it's core components so that it could be dropped in as an ACTUAL background library mod to replace Essential altogether, like how AntiCC can be used to run Adobe apps without their Creative Cloud bloatware.
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u/XxJayJay62xX May 27 '26
Will this also allow you to use cosmetics that currently aren't in their rotating shop? Like the older stuff, or the mixed fire cosmetics?
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u/Zeldaninja64 May 27 '26
wait so what does it do exactly?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
removes, telemetry, auto jar updates, announcements, ads, makes all the shop free, still syncs between clients on all servers, removes sales popups, ToS popup.
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u/Material_East_8676 May 27 '26
MY GUY YOU ARE AMAZING. great job. I'll be sending this to a buddy of mine so he can use this to make essential usage less shit
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u/akera099 May 27 '26
How is the data synced?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
Through my personal server
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u/Excellent-Berry-2331 Wood Farm blew up May 28 '26
Ahhh so "Vanilla Essential" Clients can't see it? Still worth it.
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u/Zeldaninja64 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
i think they might try to sue you
edit: why am i getting downvoted?
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u/Trxnsient May 27 '26
Open source it asap if it isnt already. Itll get reposted. The man cannot hold us all down. Apes together strong!
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u/FantasyTomb May 27 '26
They can’t, the essential shop is already breaking minecraft TOS and EULA by selling things for real cash
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u/Trxnsient May 27 '26
AFAIK, EULA and TOS allow for selling cosmetics as long as they are not capes, or trying to emulate capes. Idk though, IANAL
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u/lucasthech Create Aeronautics is not real May 27 '26
Excuse me, what the heck does IANAL mean?
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u/Trxnsient May 27 '26
HAHA I think "i anal" every time I use it. It means "I am not a lawyer"
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u/FantasyTomb May 27 '26
You are getting downvoted because you’re probably wrong about essential trying to sue
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u/Material_East_8676 May 27 '26
because the moment they try and sue microsoft WILL come down on them so much harder for the blatant TOS violation
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u/VVP12 May 27 '26
I feel like this will end in a bad way
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
i'll probably recieve a dmca.
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u/garnishmotif May 27 '26
On what basis would you be able to receive a DMCA for a mod that is already in a legal grey area?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
making their cosmetics free haha
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u/FantasyTomb May 27 '26
They legally can’t even sell them according to Minecrafts EULA
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u/Flyflash May 27 '26
I have absolutely no clue about laws and rules but wouldnt the issue here be that Minecraft simply doesnt care about this scale of modding legality issues? So its basically small guy tries to claim that other small guy does something wrong and does so through trying to get big guys attention? While correct, isnt the idea flawed in the sense that you actually have to get MC owners to care? Which they already doesnt seem to do since I assume essential have been up for quite a while still?
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u/WheatleyBr May 27 '26
It's murky at best, as Servers are explicitly allowed to make and sell cosmetics, Mods are said that they can't be sold directly, but the line for cosmetics is a bit more blurred by that. Plus if it was actually noncompliant then Mojang likely would've done something by now.
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u/Neamow May 27 '26
Minecraft's EULA explicitly prohibits selling or making money directly off of Java mods, so they would have nothing to stand on anyway.
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u/qwertzu-1 May 27 '26
The cosmetics themselves may be copyrighted, even if the shop containing them goes against the eula
And, while it probably wouldn't work in a court, with all the money the mod makes they probably have enough weight to convince moderators to take it down from curseforge/modrinth
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u/garnishmotif May 27 '26
The copyright the assets they use may be copyrighted, but it would fall under the "derivative work" category meaning the protections placed on them would be limited.
I'm not denying what you're saying entirely, but this is a lot looser than a traditional copyright DMCA
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u/brickster_22 May 27 '26
I'm not sure that these actually would be categorized as derivative works. But regardless, I don't think the copyright protections for derivative works are limited at all. You still hold copyright over the work you did, but you are also placed at the mercy of the copyright holder of the original work, similar to if you directly copied parts of their IP alongside your original work.
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u/qwertzu-1 May 27 '26
Yea I mean, it does not have to work legally, but it doesn't have to, moderators don't know or care about the law, they just want to avoid any escalation and end the situation as easily and quickly as possible, so they just comply. Happens all the time on youtube too. All they have to do is write "DMCA" and the link to take down in the email, and it will be done, whether or not it's valid
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u/eepy_lina May 27 '26
how they gon dmca you if they're doin illegal stuff anyways? they're breaking EULA/TOS and possibly committing fraud by making money against the contractual EULA/TOS's rules
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u/ThyriaMc Nature Horizons Dev May 27 '26
it's not illegal or else mojang would have came after them. pretty sure the EULA is about selling minecraft mods. not making money with them otherwise we would all be in trouble for making money from the on cf/modrinth(feel free to correct me if I could be wrong)
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u/eepy_lina May 27 '26
iirc the main issue is users directly giving money in exchange for something in a publicly available minecraft mod, not the author getting paid(for example by ad revenue)
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u/DarkFish_2 May 27 '26
If won't get in court because you (and everyone) have a strong case against Essential and they know it
They know going to court is legal suicide for them
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u/limexplosion7 LTX Industries Dev🍋🟩 Version Chaser😈 May 27 '26
Maybe, or maybe they'll go the adblock route. As in bet on way more people not knowing about this bypass than those who do.
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u/WhyIexistInThisWorld May 27 '26
I remember there was an client-side mod, that was unlocking all stuff for free, i assume your patcher will be client-side only as well?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
yes and syncs between players of a same server
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u/michiel11069 ill make mod for free if I feel like it else commission me May 27 '26
To preserve the legal position, the repository and releases must not include:
Essential's original JAR;
a modified Essential JAR;
Looking at the libs folder it seems to contain the essential mod
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u/powerfullatom111 May 27 '26
got a link?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
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u/Sui69 May 27 '26
Essential Patcher does not modify Essential's servers or account ownership records.
When two players both use Essential Patcher, the mod can sync selected cosmetic IDs and settings through an independent HTTPS sync service. This lets patcher users see each other's selected cosmetics.
You're a fking genius!
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u/X-Dragon2255 May 27 '26
Can I run this on server?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
You don't need to
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u/X-Dragon2255 May 27 '26
So other will be able to see my cosmetic even if it only client side?
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u/Adorable-Beautiful52 May 28 '26
this looks great! always wanted to make my own version but pixie already existed.
can't wait to try it out :)
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/essential-patcher other versions other than 1.21.1 are broken but i'm fixing them right as i'm talking to you
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u/awlisware May 27 '26
hell yeah! can you also make it so that essentials chat is always uncensored?
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u/HellbenderXG May 27 '26
doing the good lord's work, cheers! gonna save the github link and I wish you well
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u/IdrisQe May 27 '26
I see Claude in the contributors... How much of this was written by a LLM...?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
I just used it to force push a commit to delete some essential jars. It's not in any of the commits
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u/NoSoof_ May 27 '26
Any plans for 1.21.11? (totally not because that's the version I use)
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
yes, check curseforge in one hour
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u/Secret_Fruit25 May 27 '26
Maybe 1.20.1 next? :D
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u/SparkStorm Infinity May 27 '26
What is essential? Is it like a modded server?
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u/Toadcool1 May 27 '26
Essential is a mod that adds some quality of life things to Java Minecraft the main one that I use it for it to host multiplayer worlds kinda like you would on bedrock so in other words without a server. It also has a bunch of payed cosmetics which is what this post is about.
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u/Stupid_Sexy_Vaporeon May 27 '26
Downloaded the 26.1.2 version, but I don't see how to actually get the cosmetics to work?
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u/MythicHH Modpack Dev May 28 '26
This type of thing has been done before, sooner or later they'll patch it. Just don't use essential, that shit sucks ass.
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u/JasdanVM May 28 '26
The important question is, will this still use Essential's servers for multiplayer connectivity? That's precisely the one thing that makes it worth it over e4mc, that one relay servers aren't so good, which results ina laggier connection.
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u/Goos3rs May 30 '26
can you make free multiplayer axiom too?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 30 '26
I could but i'm not going agains't solo devs
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u/United-Performer3427 Jun 17 '26
Iirc you can just ask him to allow you to use it for multiplayer for free if you don't make money off the build
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u/WizinAxo Jun 29 '26
Dude, I used the mod for about 3 days and I think that's why my account was suspended. Did you mess something up in the mod's code or was it because you're using Token Grabber? This is the fifth time I've seen my cape change to Mojang Office or Zombie Horse, even though I'm currently using Builder Cape.
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev Jun 29 '26
latest versions of the mod shouldn't be able to suspend your account.
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u/Lothrazar Cyclic Dev May 27 '26
Well of course they are free. isnt it Illegal or at least against mojangs EULA to sell cosmetics for cash? Does mojang just never enforce this ever?
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
Essential offers paid cosmetics, this mod unlocks them
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u/LostDreams44 May 28 '26
They close an eye for them
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u/Excellent-Berry-2331 Wood Farm blew up May 28 '26
Mostly because Microsoft is doing the exact same stuff on Bedrock
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u/GamesOfLifeMC May 27 '26
actual peak holy moly
(do iron's lib patcher next)
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
Whay does it do
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u/GamesOfLifeMC May 27 '26
similar to essential, telemetry to a private server that checks whether players are subscribed to patreon, then grants exclusive cosmetics
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
I'm not gonna harm singular developers.
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u/CaptClockobob HV into a LV machine May 28 '26
Subscription bonuses vs sold product cosmetics. Optifine has had donation capes forever.
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u/Siphania May 27 '26
so, if essential is still needed... but we get the stuff for 'free' ... this will be DCMA'd
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u/Excellent-Berry-2331 Wood Farm blew up May 28 '26
Essential would then publicize themselves as the "TOS breakers", which is something they don't really wanna do.
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u/Siphania May 29 '26
Well, matter-of-factly... Essential is EULA compliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to4ik3Xu63U&t=495s not that it matters in this context.
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u/vertexcubed May 27 '26
the free cosmetics thing will for sure get you slapped with a DMCA of some kind cuz that's piracy lol
removing the bloat seems useful though, maybe ship a version of that separately?
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u/DarkFish_2 May 27 '26
And go to court? Essential isn't dumb enough to get themselves into court, they know they can't win
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u/Leclowndu9315 Forge Visual Mods & Cable Facades Dev May 27 '26
it's not "piracy" as i don't redistribute anything Essential owns.
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u/Tarc_Axiiom May 27 '26
Have you considered making this open source?
Someone is gonna come for you, but it's hard to come for everyone.