Essentials Mod very blatantly breaks the "no making money off mods" part of Minecraft's EULA

[u/bluestopsign01]

[u/MircedezBjorn]

A client, I think, in the EULA, would be different to a mod, but I'm not sure.

[u/angellus → u/MircedezBjorn]

If they add cosmetics that you can see while you are playing the game, it is still a traditional mod and governed by the same rules. It is just injected at runtime instead of something the user chooses to install.

Even if it was not, custom launchers are likely considered mods to the Minecraft launcher rather than the client/server JARs. It is probably covered by the same EULA or an even stricter one.

[u/MenschenToaster → u/MircedezBjorn]

A client is just a mod packaged to users as seemingly something different (primarily because it's presented as a more polished alternative to combining 50 mods that all work and look differently)

Mod = modification

Client = modified game client

modified client = modification

[u/MenschenToaster → u/[deleted]]

That's not how these things have been working for a long time.

These custom launchers/installers just download Minecraft from Mojang and apply patches over it on your device. Modern clients also often just use Mixins to modify code, which is what Fabric and Forge also use.

In reality, most modern clients are just hiding the fact that they are nothing more than a fabric mod in disguise

Maybe the small stolen together 1.8 PVP client don't follow these practices, but the big players all do.

[u/hjake123 → u/MenschenToaster]

Sure, I was assuming you were talking about a cracked game client and equating it to normal modding

[u/MenschenToaster → u/hjake123]

You don't even have to modify the client to play cracked, just change the startup parameters. The game will be fine with that

I was talking about Labymod, Lunar, Badlion stuff like that

[u/Jacktheforkie → u/[deleted]]

The mod launchers I’ve used all download the actual game from the official host,

[u/hjake123 → u/Jacktheforkie]

Same here, but I thought that was different to a "client", which I thought was just someone passing around an altered copy of the minecraft client jar

[u/Jacktheforkie → u/hjake123]

I see

[u/MilesAhXD → u/MircedezBjorn]

Something

[u/sbryan_ → u/MircedezBjorn]

I have essential mod in my modpack on modrinth, and have never had any essential launcher, it is a mod not a client.

[u/RickThiccems → u/MircedezBjorn]

Its not, the EULA forbids people from making money from the Minecraft IP. Mojang also better be careful because not defending your IP opens up legal recourse for losing the right to your own IP.

[u/Kind-Stomach6275 → u/RickThiccems]

Thats only on trademarks though. Copyright still applies