STOP USING ESSENTIAL MOD, USE ALTERNATIVES

I can’t believe I need to say this, but please uninstall the Essential mod. If you want to play online with friends, use the Worldhost mod, or the e4mc mod, there’s 0 reasons to use Essential.

Edit: Essential is literal bloatware (like others mentioned, filled with microtransactions and completely unnecessary things so that they can more easily collect users data), and borderline malware (a few users mentioned that the patch no longer works? If this is true and they crash your game for having the patch installed, it IS malware).

I am not sure about the current situation, but the developers also were pushing against making the mod opensource, a huge red flag with any software that collects user data (especiallyfor a Minecraft mod). I think right now they have a version that is sort of open source, but given their past, I highly doubt that it is the same as the actual version users are able to install.

It is very sad to see that people install it just for the online feature, not knowing about the much better alternatives I mentioned before

https://redd.it/1uoc75m
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