Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25376906-20181001161243/@comment-31507215-20181008151548

My personal opinion on this whole thing is that, while Mojang isn't directly copying anything, they have had a lot of inspiration from other mods, if not the LotR Mod, and haven't given due credit (With the exception of the horses from the animal mod).

Vanilla does have cool stuff, and we wouldn't have the LotR Mod without it, but each consecutive update is not as good as the last. Sure, they add interesting things, but the vast majority of the updates are just semi-useless stuff, or things to make it more difficult for (a) older computers to run, and (b) people to do coding and adventure maps. *cough1.13cough*

One very interesting coincidence, however, was as follows:  Back in either December of 2015, or January of 2016, I made a challenge map to share with my family. I had made some maps before, but this time I decided to try adding a custom resource pack. At the end of the level, there was a boss fight involving a dragon. He would breathe fire at you, and you had to watch where you step, or else you would step on "hot coals". These hot coals were simply a retextured block of oak planks with an also retextured pressure plate on the top. The pressure plate was connected to a command block that would give you poison, to simulate stepping on hot coals. (There were various ways I could have improved it, but it worked ok.)

Here is a screenshot:

Two to four months later, I look at minecraft wiki for news on the next update. Then something catches my eye. "Magma Blocks"?

I can't imagine that actually stole it from me, especially considering the fact that it was a singleplayer level that never left my computer, but it still makes you wonder. ..