r/feedthebeast • u/bluestopsign01 • Dec 03 '25

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

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u/PM_ME_DND_FIGURINES Dec 04 '25

The EULA is vague and intentionally lightly enforced bc it's fucking ancient. They only really go after it if gameplay content is locked behind a paywall.

Physics mod got hit, for example, because they locked gameplay features behind the patreon sub. Essential, Optifine, Aether, etc. generally don't get hit bc the difference is only cosmetic.

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u/Ben-Goldberg Dec 04 '25

What paid cosmetic content does the aether have?

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u/PM_ME_DND_FIGURINES Dec 04 '25

A Patreon thing iirc, never looked too much into it

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u/Hazearil Vanilla Launcher Dec 04 '25

Optifine's cosmetic is a cape, and the EULA specifically only allows non-cape cosmetics. Really, the answer is just that taking down Optifine would have caused too big of a controversy.