It was shitty and an unfortunate situation where I felt like I couldn’t defend myself anymore in good faith without feeling bad but I also didn’t have any intention of cheating." "I didn’t want to be the center of controversy for the hundredth time. I told a couple people and just felt like the community had been through enough drama and that it was pointless," he wrote. "I figured it’s out of the way, and it would be a story I would tell in a few years when no one really cared. Ender eyes had a low chance of breaking when thrown, and enderman dropped pearls at a much higher percentage (I don’t think I killed many enderman so this wasn't noticeable, similar to the eyes)."įollowing the discovery, which Dream estimated happened "a couple months ago," he took down his response video but didn't comment on the matter further for fear of reigniting the drama. This actually included a couple other things that weren’t mentioned at all during the controversy much as far as I’m aware.
"This was only in an early rendition of the mod and was removed because the developer realized that those type of videos can just be done on a PC hosted server. "I talked with the developer and ended up finding out that when working on the mod stuff he had added the same improvements from our challenge servers to the client side mod so that they would work in single player for videos like the shock collar video or other 'single player' mod videos," Dream explained. As it turns out, so were other assumptions about the mod's impact. Logs also indicated that only Fabric API was loaded and nothing else, although this ultimately proved to be inaccurate.
Dream had considered that it might be a problem but "brushed it off" because it was entirely server-side and so shouldn't have any impact on the client, and he was "99% sure" that the mod wasn't running anyway.
The 1.16 update made the process more complicated, so a server-side plugin was created to slightly increase the rates instead. In it, Dream acknowledged that they had in fact been using mods that adjusted the drop rates, although they insisted that it was not intentional.ĭream explained that in "challenge videos" made before the Minecraft 1.16 update, he increased the enderman spawn rates and pearl drop rates so they didn't have to waste a lot of video time hunting for pearls and blaze rods. He deleted the tweet after the post was taken down " due to reports (opens in new tab)" from other users, but post itself has since been restored. That seemed to be the end of it until this past weekend, when Dream tweeted "About speedrunning," with a link to a Pastebin post.