Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26068391-20151110173640/@comment-27723099-20151110190529

Dinopizzagamer wrote: For some reason, whenever I look at the code, the code turns into a bunch of seemingly random symbols. Is this purposeful? That's because you decompile it. (Or do you?)

The mod files are compiled code files. In the process of compilation, the original Java code is reduced to (unreadable) Java-bytecode, which is easier to interpret by the computer. Most unneeded information is also dropped in the process. If you use a decompilrer, you can turn the bytecode back to readable Java code, but the decompiler can't restore the information that was lost in the compilation.