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Minecraft on PC - Downloading Mods (1 Viewer)

MikeIke

MikeIke

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I just recently got Minecraft on PC for my kids, and they want to download mods for it. But the few I've tried have all first pointed me to extra crap like download boosters, which I'm sure will put adware, Spyware, or viruses in my machine.

Does anyone know a good place to download mods that won't put all this extra crap on my nice new laptop?

 
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I tried - briefly - with one mod but was unsuccessful. Most good games will have an automatic installer that's pretty much one-click-and-go, but I've not seen that with Minecraft.

 
The big mods are fine

Too many items, etc. It's just that the downloads are hosted on these adfly type sites. The obvious "click me" type links are ads that take you to download boosters and other crap. You just have to figure out where to click to get to the real download.

I wouldn't recommend letting your kids do it as they will inevitably virus up and malware up your PC. You should make sure you check out any mod they say they want.

 
MikeIke said:
I just recently got Minecraft on PC for my kids, and they want to download mods for it. But the few I've tried have all first pointed me to extra crap like download boosters, which I'm sure will put adware, Spyware, or viruses in my machine.

Does anyone know a good place to download mods that won't put all this extra crap on my nice new laptop?
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:goodposting:

Minecraft dad here as well, and my son has been bugging me to help with mods. Any advice is appreciated.

 
Another Mine Craft father here. I wish this were easier.

Microsoft recently bought Mine Craft. Not sure if that helps or hinders.

 
Hastur said:
Another Mine Craft father here. I wish this were easier.

Microsoft recently bought Mine Craft. Not sure if that helps or hinders.
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Given how Microsoft is well known for its open source sharing, I'm sure it'll do nothing but help. :sarcasm:

 
Short wiki

Download this Forge Minecraft, download the version that matches the minecraft version you are running. You must launch Minecraft at the version level you want to install for Forge before you install Forge, you can change the version under the Profile properties, once you install Forge it becomes easy. Go back into the Profile and select the Forge version. Then you can dump the mod zip file into the mods directory which is under the user profile directory C:\user\username\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft wa la minecraft mods are installed.

 
Foosball God said:
The big mods are fine

Too many items, etc. It's just that the downloads are hosted on these adfly type sites. The obvious "click me" type links are ads that take you to download boosters and other crap. You just have to figure out where to click to get to the real download.

I wouldn't recommend letting your kids do it as they will inevitably virus up and malware up your PC. You should make sure you check out any mod they say they want.
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:goodposting: Another piece of advice, some mods are incompatible with others. So if you are running one mod and want to add others you may run into crashes. Then you have to remove all of them and then re-add them one at at time until you find the conflicting mod. Pain in the ###.

 
The most hands off approach for a lot of mods is to get a launcher.

ATLauncher and FTB (feed the beast) are the two biggest ones available. They offer the ease of having the mod packs already created for you. You just choose from a list and it will download each of the files needed for the mod.

Mods add a lot of new an interesting things but they are also very memory intensive. Make sure you have a PC that can allocate the max amount of RAM towards Minecraft to help it run smoother.

http://www.atlauncher.com

http://feed-the-beast.com/launcher

 
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Hawks64 said:
Short wiki

Download this Forge Minecraft, download the version that matches the minecraft version you are running. You must launch Minecraft at the version level you want to install for Forge before you install Forge, you can change the version under the Profile properties, once you install Forge it becomes easy. Go back into the Profile and select the Forge version. Then you can dump the mod zip file into the mods directory which is under the user profile directory C:\user\username\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft wa la minecraft mods are installed.
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:thanks: I think this is probably what I'm looking for. Once the kids get off the computer I'll give it a try.

 
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MikeIke said:
Hawks64 said:
Short wiki

Download this Forge Minecraft, download the version that matches the minecraft version you are running. You must launch Minecraft at the version level you want to install for Forge before you install Forge, you can change the version under the Profile properties, once you install Forge it becomes easy. Go back into the Profile and select the Forge version. Then you can dump the mod zip file into the mods directory which is under the user profile directory C:\user\username\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft wa la minecraft mods are installed.
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:thanks: I think this is probably what I'm looking for. Once the kids get off the computer I'll give it a try.
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:goodposting:

 
Hastur said:
Another Mine Craft father here. I wish this were easier.

Microsoft recently bought Mine Craft. Not sure if that helps or hinders.
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2.5BILLION. Oh my. I remember when they released it on xbox and they were living large making something like 6M in the first hour. I kinda miss the old days. Haven't picked it up in a year or so.

 
Cjw_55106 said:
Sounds like MineCraft is a pain in the ### and wont be introduced at my house. :hifive:
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Minecraft is one of the most refreshing game experiences in the last 20 years. They give you the world. What you do from there is all on you. The mods just enhance the things you can do.

 
Cjw_55106 said:
Insein said:
Cjw_55106 said:
Sounds like MineCraft is a pain in the ### and wont be introduced at my house. :hifive:
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Minecraft is one of the most refreshing game experiences in the last 20 years. They give you the world. What you do from there is all on you. The mods just enhance the things you can do.
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Any idea how different the PC version and the app are?
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You're a hockey fan....

The PC version is the NHL and its entire history, all the leagues it assumed, the Cup history and everything having to do with hockey in Canada and the northern part of the United States from the past 200 years and going forward into all eternity.

The apps are you playing one on one street hockey with your kid.

I think that works. The PC version is open ended and infinite. And that is really no joke - the amount of possible data for the game and possible "stories" you can make out of it, if defined and treated like the mass of an object is bigger than a gas giant planet. You will literally never "finish" or see "everything" in the PC game because it's impossible. The app and Xbox version have limits and a defined end to the universe of the game. Now playing within them is pretty limitless as well but there is, for example a wall you hit that you can't get past.

We have the app, the Xbox and the PC versions. This thing has taken over our house worse than any child-addiction to something has. The mods that everyone speaks about are for the PC. There are upates you can download to the XBox version that gives you new things to use and do but again, there is a limit to it and the XBox doesn't have the ability (at least yet) to have all the mods that are possible online for the PC version.

It's a remarkable game really. It's massively simplistic. The graphics are both not the point and the very point. It can also be extremely complex and you can go down literal and figerative rabitt holes and never find your way out.

 
So we have minecraft on a mac - version 1.8

If I wanted to surprise an 8 and 10 yo with a mod(s) - what would I be looking for?

 
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
my son has converted from PC to Xbox, way easier on my life
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Yup - we went the other way though. I read up on the game a lot before I let it in my house and thought the XBox version was a better way to go but it fastly became no fun to play that when all the friends play on the PC and have these awesome mods.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
my son has converted from PC to Xbox, way easier on my life
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Yup - we went the other way though. I read up on the game a lot before I let it in my house and thought the XBox version was a better way to go but it fastly became no fun to play that when all the friends play on the PC and have these awesome mods.

Sounds like all are unique and PC guy still can't jump onto Xbox guy's world. Based on the limitations you mentioned earlier, I guess it's an impossibility? That sure would be awesome, even if you have to opt in to a dumbed down version for PC so Xbox folks can play. Happen to know what update version the PC one is up to? Late nights outside as dark approaches are now over so I might need to pick it back up. I think witches were the upcoming update last I recall.
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odin33 said:
Yankee23Fan said:
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
my son has converted from PC to Xbox, way easier on my life
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Yup - we went the other way though. I read up on the game a lot before I let it in my house and thought the XBox version was a better way to go but it fastly became no fun to play that when all the friends play on the PC and have these awesome mods.

Sounds like all are unique and PC guy still can't jump onto Xbox guy's world. Based on the limitations you mentioned earlier, I guess it's an impossibility? That sure would be awesome, even if you have to opt in to a dumbed down version for PC so Xbox folks can play. Happen to know what update version the PC one is up to? Late nights outside as dark approaches are now over so I might need to pick it back up. I think witches were the upcoming update last I recall.
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I'm not sure what the current version is. If I understand my son correctly - and I could be wrong - he isn't playing the most up to date version because the mods are better in the version he is in. I want to say he is using 1.7.2 or something like that and they have a 1.8 option out there. Again, not sure. He has a ton of mods that I can't even keep track of. He has this battle ax that takes up like 20 squares and kills anything with one shot. I know that. Because it makes killing cows interesting.

 
My sons just bought the PC version for $26.95. No idea about mods. They haven't asked about them yet. I'm glad, too, because this thread really confuses me. I'm sure my boys will figure it out quicker than I will.

 
My son's mother recently bought him a new computer for school. She went with the LG Chromebook.

He has been dying to get a new computer and one of the specific reasons was minecraft. Unfortunately, it looks like it is impossible or next to impossible to play Minecraft on a Chromebook. Does anyone here know anything about Chromebook compatibility and games?

 
More than mods, I'd like to set up a server so my son and his friends can play without all these kids swearing in chat. Also there is a lot of griefing in the open world.

Anyone have experience setting up a free server?

 
SIDA! said:
My son's mother recently bought him a new computer for school. She went with the LG Chromebook.

He has been dying to get a new computer and one of the specific reasons was minecraft. Unfortunately, it looks like it is impossible or next to impossible to play Minecraft on a Chromebook. Does anyone here know anything about Chromebook compatibility and games?
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CAn't play it on a Chromebook - we had the same problem.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
SIDA! said:
My son's mother recently bought him a new computer for school. She went with the LG Chromebook.

He has been dying to get a new computer and one of the specific reasons was minecraft. Unfortunately, it looks like it is impossible or next to impossible to play Minecraft on a Chromebook. Does anyone here know anything about Chromebook compatibility and games?
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CAn't play it on a Chromebook - we had the same problem.
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Arghh.

 
Corporation said:
More than mods, I'd like to set up a server so my son and his friends can play without all these kids swearing in chat. Also there is a lot of griefing in the open world.

Anyone have experience setting up a free server?
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I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.

 
Cjw_55106 said:
Yankee23Fan said:
Cjw_55106 said:
So....what's the cost of the PC version? Do the mods cost extra?
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26.95ish. The mods are all free that my son has gotten. I'm sure there are one you can pay for but there isn't chance in he** I am paying for a mod.
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Thanks...truth be told, i dont know what the hell a mod is. :lol:
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I will give you an example. One of the mods my son has is skins for Steve (Steve if your guy in Minecraft). In the regular version there are only a few different outfits Steve can wear in his basic attire. Now you can make him armor and stuff but his basic not walking around nekkid clothes are pretty tame. My son has a mod that allows him to "dress" Steve about a billion ways. Right now Steve is a skull with a black suit or somesuch. He had him looking like a HALO guy for awhile as well. So mods allow for that - they are changes to the basic programming that allow augmentation that isn't normal or lets you find new things that aren't in the original game.

I think he has one right now that allows girlfriends - nothing about them is sexual in any way except that they are called girlfriends. I think they help hunt or something. I can't keep track of it. And like I said above he has some mod that is for super weapons and he has a battle axe that is the biggest thing in the game.

 
Foosball God said:
Corporation said:
More than mods, I'd like to set up a server so my son and his friends can play without all these kids swearing in chat. Also there is a lot of griefing in the open world.

Anyone have experience setting up a free server?
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I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.
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Yeah we've done that too.

Really the PC game is just ginormous. It's truly remarkable. I'm still trying to get my head wrapped around the XBox version of the game. Right now we are two playering (is that a word?) a world that he created with every XBox update available. He built the surface world - house, armory, even found a village so he built a minecart track to the villiage to go there and back and then built a mining shaft down the bedrock of the world - that is the very bottom bottom. Can't go through the bedrock. From there he needs anything you can mine, so while he does his thing I am the Chilean mine worker down in the pits of the world mining everything down there. I have probably cleared a football field worth of space and there is just a ton more to go. It's just huge.

 
Cjw_55106 said:
So....what's the cost of the PC version? Do the mods cost extra?
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Mods are typically free. Some developers ask for donations (and deserve them for the work they put in) but there's no official paid mods.

 
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Insein said:
The most hands off approach for a lot of mods is to get a launcher.

ATLauncher and FTB (feed the beast) are the two biggest ones available. They offer the ease of having the mod packs already created for you. You just choose from a list and it will download each of the files needed for the mod.

Mods add a lot of new an interesting things but they are also very memory intensive. Make sure you have a PC that can allocate the max amount of RAM towards Minecraft to help it run smoother.

http://www.atlauncher.com

http://feed-the-beast.com/launcher
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Again I can't recommend these launchers enough. They package the mods together for you and have taken care a lot of the conflicts that may occur between certain ones. Forge let's you put mods together but if you're a novice at computer stuff, it can be a bit overwhelming loading them into the folders correctly and taking care of texture conflicts.

 
Foosball God said:
Sinn Fein said:
So we have minecraft on a mac - version 1.8

If I wanted to surprise an 8 and 10 yo with a mod(s) - what would I be looking for?
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Too Many Items mod would be a big hit for them.
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A couple of other cool mods depending upon what they're into would be:

Life in the Woods (LOTS more textures, items and biomes - my son's been bugging me about this one)

Pixelmon (a Pokemon mod, but much more fun to play with friends on a closed server)

 
Sphax texture pack is the best visuals I've seen.

And the Yogscast Complete pack has hundreds of awesome mods.

 
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T Bell said:
Insein said:
Sphax texture pack is the best visuals I've seen.

And the Yogscast Complete pack has hundreds of awesome mods.
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This is a YouTube series on the Life in the Woods mod ( :nerd: ) which shows the textures in that mod. I don't know how functional the Sphax textures are, but these textures at least visually are amazing given what the game looks like ordinarily.

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Pretty nice. Sphax for me though is the best combo between staying true to Minecraft and making it more stimulating. There's plenty out there though. Even ones that look like real life textures.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Foosball God said:
Corporation said:
More than mods, I'd like to set up a server so my son and his friends can play without all these kids swearing in chat. Also there is a lot of griefing in the open world.

Anyone have experience setting up a free server?
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I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.
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Yeah we've done that too.

Really the PC game is just ginormous. It's truly remarkable. I'm still trying to get my head wrapped around the XBox version of the game. Right now we are two playering (is that a word?) a world that he created with every XBox update available. He built the surface world - house, armory, even found a village so he built a minecart track to the villiage to go there and back and then built a mining shaft down the bedrock of the world - that is the very bottom bottom. Can't go through the bedrock. From there he needs anything you can mine, so while he does his thing I am the Chilean mine worker down in the pits of the world mining everything down there. I have probably cleared a football field worth of space and there is just a ton more to go. It's just huge.
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If you want to be an efficient Chilean mine worker:

Dig down creating a staircase as you go (make it one or two tiles higher than needed so you can run railcars later- I usually make them 3 tiles wide for easy red flare placement). Once you hit bedrock come back up so you are between level 10-12. Dig out a little area just off from the staircase to put stoves and a chest or two. Then create a 2 tile wide corridor as long as desired (light it well as it's a spawning haven if not). Then create two 'ladder' looking shapes on either side of corridor with three tiles of dirt/rock between the tunnels. Yes you miss out on seeing that center column but it's way more efficient and you usually end up running into an end or the middle of a vein anyway.

If they haven't changed the rules recently:

Diamonds: ~level 10-12

Gold: 10-16

Iron: 14-30

Coal: heavier in the 30-40 range.

Profit.

It can get disorienting which is why I make the center corridor two wide. Once I see that I know I've found the exit.

Important note: This is where the lava is at and come come down on you form above- always have a cube of dirt/stone in the toolbar.

 
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