Method for attaching the entire Minecraft instance to crash reports

[natanfudge]

The idea is for mod authors to be able to instantly test the crashing environment by using the Minecraft instance that crashed.

• Required data:

  • User input: what did you (the user) do to trigger the crash?
  • Save of crashing world
  • Mods
  • All config
  • More? Need to research what other context a Minecraft instance can have

• Performance notes:

  • Since mods are very large, optimize by only saving id + version and downloading the mod itself later
  • Perhaps use GitHub Issues as hosting solution, that allows up to 25MB gzipped.
  • In cases where we must host it ourselves, the limit must be 1MB gzipped per crash.

• Usability notes:

  • Must be explicitly opt-in, don't leak user's data
  • Must be very easy to use / obvious for high usage, context is very important.
  • I think, have a screen that allows uploading crash context (+crash) to the issues page of any GitHub repo. Prioritize uploading to suspected mods.
  • Where Github issues is not possible, have some way to upload to a custom issue tracker ( low priority )
  • In a perfect world where you can have the entire context in a very small file (<1MB), the best solution is to have it be part of Crashy. There would just be a 'try it yourself!' button.

[Madis0]

As long as the correct mods are detected and sources decompiled, I don't think building this is worth it.