When it first came out , I am pretty sure it ' s because it wasn ' t at feature parity with the Java version , but it ' s been catching up . What you said is the main reason today , and my reason . It does have some active promises and some rudimentary support for those weaksauce json mods that lightly edit the game . and I ' ll be first to give them some credit for it . It does allow for some creative creations that can have a perverse impact on the game ! But it ' s nowhere near the scale of what most selfproclaimed modders actually wanted deep mods that run their own native source code and add entirely new mechanics , biomes , mobs , bosses , tech , dimensions . None of that is possible in the current C iteration of Minecraft and there has been no concrete indication that it ever will be .