I highly recommend playing with a mod pack on a return playthrough. You can still do all of the vanilla stuff, but the experience is also expanded upon with things like steam quarries, programmable mining bots, digitized wireless storage, blood magic, dimensional travel, and cozy kitchens with in-depth cooking.
I used to drive pretty hard into Feed The Beast, but All The Mods seems to have taken over it. The big thing with these packs is making all the mods play nice with each other, so they can share resources and be cross compatible.
I recall one pack where the world was a wasteland. All the ores were depleted, and the oceans were toxic. You had to figure out how to try to grow crops, make survival gear to explore, and eventually make mystical crops that could produce tiny bits of ores that you could harvest.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You should do it! It’s a good time. I’d recommend Prism Launcher if you’re doing mods (or playing on Linux).
If you’re looking for a legacy console experience though you can do the 4J Modpack on Java (I’ve heard good things about it) or run it through Xenia, RPCS3, or CEMU.
Most if not all version of Minecraft can be played. I think the only one I haven’t been able to play is Bedrock edition PC and that’s only because it needs windows 10/11 and I use Linux.
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I will be playing Linux vanilla Minecraft if anything, I believe. I haven’t played in probably 10 years, so the basic experience will be plenty new for me as it is. 😅
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably the best route to go down lol. Super simple to setup
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
☺️ Just gotta get my old pal to get on board that I used to play with. Might be hard… Or just go solo. Not as fun but could be peaceful.