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ameancow@lemmy.world 3 days agoPlaying minecraft without mods as an adult is like eating a plain potato, or like going to a party without inebriating substances.
Then I must be the most plain motherfucker out there. I meddle with Create and Biomes o’ plenty every couple of years, but about 90% of my worlds are vanilla with the exception of a couple of Vanilla Tweaks data packs.
I tried Feed the Beast once… never again. That was the worst Minecraft experience I’ve had in my entire life!
Feed the Beast is commonly overloaded and also commonly shoves things like progression and questing, which are not to everybody’s liking.
The best approach is always to add the mods you want manually to tailor the experience.
I personally had most fun with Terrafirmacraft, Thaumcraft, Electrical Age, and GregTech. But those were the days gone, and most of them got stuck at 1.7.10
Terrafirmacraft and Gregtech do actually have modern 1.20.1 versions! I am currently actually playing a modpack with some friends called Terrafirmagreg, which as the name implies is tfc and Gregtech integrated, along with a bunch of other QOL and add-ons. It is a very fun, and very very long pack.
Nice! Heard of new versions of TerraFirmaCraft, but I believe it is community maintained, as the main author seems to focus on Vintage Story. But since you mention it works fine, I might as well give it a spin! Didn’t know Gregtech updated to newer versions.
most of them got stuck at 1.7.10
As did I :) The few times I boot up MC it’s the same old modpacks on the same old versions.
I too find myself returning back there :)
So many great mods died after this version that it was impossible to recreate the experience.
It goes so bad that when I recently loaded a newer version, I was like “what the hell is going on here” :D
I started with one of the optimized packs and then added stuff I thought was useful: maps, minimaps, backpacks, way stones, ultimine via enchants.
After I played that for a while and beat most of the game I wanted to, I tried a vanilla plus pack, betterMC. It had a lot of the same mods but more. After I finished that, I went with allthemods10, but at that point you do need youtube and discord open to ask questions or look up how to do certain things.
Anyways, had a blast with all of it, I’m on vacation now so I’m playing no mods on my steam deck and as long as I turn on keep inventory its not bad at all. The new copper update is pretty cool!
Once Create Mod came out, vanilla was dead to me
I’d say its more like going to a fancy ice cream shop with amazing ice cream and ordering vanilla (hehe see what I did there?) or a fancy pizza place known for their amazing topping combinations and just getting a slice of cheese pizza. Its perfectly fine and probably better than some other places you’ve had vanilla ice cream or cheese pizza, but holy crap are you missing out!
87Six@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not… Really? I mean I get it of you like mods, i do too, but Minecraft offers so much out of the box that I find it extreme to claim that…
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah dude I totally agree! Mods are great in their own right, but there’s something to be said for the insane variety of gameplay you can get outta the base game!
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Sodium, Let Me Despawn (prevents servers from going under 20TPS), No Chat Reports, and other QOL no content mods are essential for even running a server with vanilla clients tbh
Benaaasaaas@group.lt 3 days ago
Server hosting and using mods to improve performance/server moderation tools is a bit different than playing with mods.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Fair, although stock Minecraft without QOL is rough around the edges (especially if we’re talking performance or accessibility)