I would say for one modders would have much more information on the base to work with.

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    Then again, Minecraft used to be (maybe still is? I haven’t modded in a while) a big mess of spaghetti code but somehow modders not only made it work, but made it work without any documentation and working from obfuscated code.

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      As one of those old modders … It was “blood sweat and tears” mixed with community organization that allowed Minecraft modding to shine. Later aided by Mojang’s help and refactoring.

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        If anything, modders showed Mojang how it’s done. Looking at it now, the Forge API is really familiar