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The Model Patent System

prop's answer to selling custom Blockbench models on the server: sell in-game patents so each model has one owner.

Event ASMP S1 31 Dec 2021

In late December 2021 prop was travelling with very limited internet, unable to play online games or join servers properly. He announced that he would spend the time modelling things in Blockbench for the server’s resource pack and took requests. 1

On 31 December he raised an awkward question. Would it be acceptable to sell high-effort models, like the The Glitchpop Axe, on the server for diamonds, “instead of just making all the tags public”? 2

His answer came the same day. Instead of selling models like items, he would sell the in-game “patents” for them, so that whoever holds the patent owns that model. 3 The point was unique models for everyone, rather than everyone having access to everything. He was upfront about where the idea came from: “the patent idea was given to me by IRIS”. 4

Older models, the Glitchpop Axe among them, were not affected. The Axe has its own story in The Glitchpop Axe.

Primary sources

  1. prop · 27 Dec 2021 · #announcements @everyone sorry for the random ass fucking spam on #announcements But since I am out of station... I have very limited internet and I can't play online games and on minecraft servers properly... > So I want to spend my…
  2. prop · 31 Dec 2021 · #announcements Is selling high effort models like the Glitchpop Axe *for diamonds* on the server an acceptable thing? idk how to explain this but like... is it ok if i sell it? instead of just making all the tags public?
  3. prop · 31 Dec 2021 · #announcements Ok so instead of selling the models directly like items I will instead be selling the in-game "patents" for them... So whoever has the patent will be the owner of that model... This way we can have unique models for eve…
  4. prop · 31 Dec 2021 · #announcements And I gotta be honest here... the patent idea was given to me by IRIS

Connected

Person prop Co-founder of the Discord and the server's manager from 2023, prop organises the events, films the videos and writes the chronicle of... Person IRIS The group's builder of farms and Japanese houses, keeper of the honey monopoly, inventor of "paimonds", and the only friend to get a funeral. Curiosity · mechanic Custom Models and Patents prop's Blockbench resource pack and datapack for Season 1, where /trigger CustomModelData swapped in hand-made models for top-tier gear. Curiosity · item The Glitchpop Axe prop's high-effort custom-model axe: it inspired the model 'patent' system and was the only model carried into Season 2.