You're here because for some odd reason you're the type of guy who reads the sticky instead of lurking; or maybe you're the kind of faggot who doesn't lurk but posts something retarded that lurking/reading this would fix and you got this spammed at you for it.
This is an older, forgetten version of the mod FAQ and may be outdated, though still pretty relevant to 1.7.
Since you should already know at least something about minecraft, and what it is due to its spread, there's not much worth in talking about it. The purpose of this is to be succinct.
Autistic voxel building game with big modding community.
Something to note is that the acquisition of minecraft by microsoft has not actually changed anything about the main game (java pc version), as no one cares about consoles, mobile, or win10.
/mcg/ is essentially only focused on the modding bit now.
Vanilla, at least in beta 1.7.3, was a good solid sandbox.
Many faggots feel like beta 1.8 was the beginning of the end, the adding of hunger was a survival game mechanic in a game that wasn't really a survival game at the time.
It's also half assed, and just kind of annoying.
From there, things varied between worse and better, but after the formation of mojang most people agree the game's development took a downturn.
The massive faggot Notch who probably smells was a /v/irgin and didn't know much about hiring people, Mojang is staffed by the community members who kissed up the best.
Needless to say this has not gone well; mostly because they're all retarded, and every one of them has a different vision of the game leading to a total mess of features.
So people play with mods, because modders are usually one person so the chance of them screwing up their ideas isn't as high, and unlike the community groups notch drew from modders are slightly more skilled, so their shit tends to be better.
1.7.10 is what /mcg/ considers to be the best modding platform.
It's got an assload more mods (and the mods it has are bigger too) due to the massive timegap between the release of 1.7.10 and when 1.8.9 became moddable.
Most people also hate the "combat" update because it made something already considered annoying worse instead of improving it, which modders have done.
In addition post 1.7.10 have serious performance issues when modded, due to forge for those versions being unoptimized because the current faggot in charge is lazy.
Essentially just all around better, so versions past that are usually called meme versions. But they are secretly better, we’re just to autistic to play better versions because muh mods. 1.5 is superior
In 1.7, install FastCraft and never look back.
For meme versions, read this:
BetterFPS can also optimize certain aspects of the game. Most notably, it will optimize the math routines in Minecraft to rely on CPU-based approximation over large lookup tables - this can bump performance very high on machines with low amounts of CPU cache, but may even slightly decrease FPS on machines with a lot of CPU cache. Your mileage may vary, make sure to test with both. (OptiFine's "Fast Math" does the same thing, but BetterFPS in meme versions also has a few additional optimizations for some specific functionality in the engine.)
Finally, if you don't mind the odd rendering glitch/Z-fighting and/or want finer control over the rendering/shaders/better resource pack functionality, install OptiFine. Modders might tell you they don't like it, but that's mostly because (a) the developer never gave anyone redistribution rights and (b) it's a massive pain to debug an issue in a mod that happens with OptiFine only so they hate getting bug reports for it as they can usually do little about them. It doesn't cause as many issues as rumored. Read the "HOW TO OPTIFINE" section for further details.
Fair enough, they're cunts; however, pirating minecraft is not worth the effort.
Because of its popularity, the vast majority of downloads will be compromised.
Your best bet is looking for, or making (https://github.com/MultiMC/MultiMC5/blob/develop/api/logic/minecraft/auth/flows/AuthenticateTask.cpp this is what you'd have to rewrite) , a fork of the multimc launcher, as the game itself doesn't actually DRM on it, only the launcher does. If you do manage to find or make a good fork please share it, in the spirit of things.
Or just install Minetest and support an alternative to Microsoft if you really hate them that much. However, I know you don't and that this is probably an excuse.
MultiMC is very full featured open source launcher, it makes managing modded minecraft instances easy as piss.
The vanilla launcher is really trash for modding in general, and the twitch one is cumbersome bloatware. Sure it "just works" but it doesn't have the features you need to properly control your shit.
It features links to all relavent folders, easy management of mods, instance importing (on the beta/development branch as of 10/1/17, this works on the .zips you download from curse, so you don't need the twitch launcher to install curse modpacks) and exporting, savefile management, texturepack management, a way to pastebin crashlogs with a since button, and more.
It's like Mod organizer (the original, not 2) but for minecraft
Making your own modpack rather than downloading one is important. And it really isn't that hard.
Controlling your own configs is a great way to learn about the game's inner workings, and you can also control your own experience.
Use wordpad or notepad++ to edit your configs, unless you have a better option.
Most premade modpacks tend to be kitchen sinks and have all the same popular mods that people all know d have played with, and only try to offer a unique experience by occassionally shifting things up.
This is bad modpack design, it'll cause you to burn out quickly, and a billion different things that all do the same thing is just not good for you or the game.
You have to learn to sacrifice a unique feature of a mod that is the only thing you use from that mod because the rest of it does the exact same thing as another mod you prefer.
Theming your pack is a great way to create a good one, don't include mods that don't fit with what you're going with unless they're critical to making something not shit.
It's good for you and your experience.
If you do decide to use a premade, avoid ftb.
They're incompetent, I can recall one anon who made a pack with the exact same mods as a ftb pack but with configs he made instead, and he had an inexplicable (and rather large) fps gain.
Any other premade modpack assembler would be preferable, even just some random nobody who made a pack for the twitch launcher.
If you want to download a twitch launcher pack without using their cancer launcher (they are just a host after all, there's probably some good shit on there), just switch to the beta branch of multimc (unless it's gone live now), download the .zip for the modpack off of curse, and make a new instance in multimc importing from the .zip
Modmakers and modpack makers will generally tell you optifine is the devil.
This isn't true, the reason why they say that is because it is a coremod, and changes a lot of shit. As a result it makes crashlogs harder to read for them, so they just say "it bad"
They can get away with this because optifine is complicated as fuck, and needs config work to figure out a good setup for your system, it doesn't just work out of the box.
Some general pointers for most systems are:
When you hover over an option in the video settings menu optifine gives you, it tells you things. The rule of thumb is do not use anything that sounds like it enables system based stuff, it causes problems.
i.e. why curse/twitch/forge/mojang/ftb are faggots (this will always stay at the end, maybe even on a seperate thing if at all. It is important that people have the option to learn about it but it's not necessary for them to learn, as there's plenty of good reasons to avoid them without getting into drama [botnet, not as configgable, retards, etc.)
( aimed at 1.7 and prior versions )
This is where, like, uh, we answers commonly asked questions for modding Minecraft, such as how to set up modded clients with Forge, what launcher to use because the vanilla launcher blows, and whatever other bullshit that might be helpful like recommended mods and tweaks.
A: Because it's the only good sandbox game that allows making your own shit with mods that give tech and magic
A: With a properly set up launcher its drag-and-drop. Alternatively, see the Q below.
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A: The one which has your favourite mods! Other than that, 1.10.2 has the most content, but some of the most memorable Minecraft experiences happened in the 1.8-1.9 era. 1.11.2 is slowly coming up, but it will take a few months before it will be worth considering for modpacks.
A: No, not really. Look into in-game books for the mods which have them (that is, the good ones) and wikis for the ones who don't (that is, the less good ones).
A: That's… not a question.
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A: EnderCore. Check for a BetterAchievements line, set that to false.
A: bspkrsCore.cfg, showMainMenuMobs
A: Turn off channels in the config, problem solved. But do give it a try, please.
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A: Post in the thread with a little blurb about what you were doing at the time and post the crash report on pastebin or something, link that in your post. Some anon will probably try to help.