Minecraft on PC - Downloading Mods (1 Viewer)

[MikeIke]

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

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.

OK I've installed AT Launcher and set up my kids' account in the console. Do I then just run Minecraft normally, or do I have to launch the game a different way?

 

[Hawks64]

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

So I got around to looking at these, the problem is that the mods my kids want are listed in their packs.

 

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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

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.

Friend is looking for a way to put the godzilla mod on a PC. These do this? Any foolproof method that won't involve downloading some crazy malware?

 

[T Bell]

I've told my son, who has a bunch of friends at his school who are Minecraft fanatics, that when he gets older I'd be willing to buy him server space to set up a Minecraft community with his friends. I'll have to live vicariously through him because I'd have loved that 30 years ago.

You guys have me thinking about setting up such a server through the FBG's dads...

 

[Foosball God]

I've told my son, who has a bunch of friends at his school who are Minecraft fanatics, that when he gets older I'd be willing to buy him server space to set up a Minecraft community with his friends. I'll have to live vicariously through him because I'd have loved that 30 years ago.

You guys have me thinking about setting up such a server through the FBG's dads...

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For Godzilla mod, looks like?

1) Download Godzilla Mod Here

2) Download appropriate version of Minecraft Forge here

3) Install Forge
4) Drag Godzilla zip folder into Forge "Mods" folder
5) Profit?

I've never touched a minecraft app before, does this look correct?

TIA fellas.

 

[bro1ncos]

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?

I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.

Can you walk me through this like I am stupid?

 

[T Bell]

I've told my son, who has a bunch of friends at his school who are Minecraft fanatics, that when he gets older I'd be willing to buy him server space to set up a Minecraft community with his friends. I'll have to live vicariously through him because I'd have loved that 30 years ago.

You guys have me thinking about setting up such a server through the FBG's dads...

In

I'd do it, but my guy just turned 7 so he's still a little young for my liking. I still heavily supervise his computer time. Certainly in a couple of years I'd do it.

 

[Foosball God]

I've told my son, who has a bunch of friends at his school who are Minecraft fanatics, that when he gets older I'd be willing to buy him server space to set up a Minecraft community with his friends. I'll have to live vicariously through him because I'd have loved that 30 years ago.

You guys have me thinking about setting up such a server through the FBG's dads...

In

I'd do it, but my guy just turned 7 so he's still a little young for my liking. I still heavily supervise his computer time. Certainly in a couple of years I'd do it.

Oh, I thought this was for us.

 

[T Bell]

I've told my son, who has a bunch of friends at his school who are Minecraft fanatics, that when he gets older I'd be willing to buy him server space to set up a Minecraft community with his friends. I'll have to live vicariously through him because I'd have loved that 30 years ago.

You guys have me thinking about setting up such a server through the FBG's dads...

In

I'd do it, but my guy just turned 7 so he's still a little young for my liking. I still heavily supervise his computer time. Certainly in a couple of years I'd do it.

Oh, I thought this was for us.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You're blowing my cover!

 

[Corporation]

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?

I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.

Can you walk me through this like I am stupid?

But I want to setup passwords so his friends can join.

 

[Foosball God]

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?

I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.

Can you walk me through this like I am stupid?

Download the latest server from https://minecraft.net/download

Before starting the server, make sure you place the downloaded file (.exe or .jar) in a folder of it's own. Don't run the server from your desktop, download folder, or any other common place. The server creates several configuration files in the application folder, and these are easier to find if everything is in a dedicated folder.

Double click the file and the server should start. It will put configuration files in the folder, and quit immediately.

The first, and required, configuration you have to do is accepting the EULA. A text file call eula.txt is created in the application folder. Open this file in a text editor (Notepad, Gedit, TextEdit, etc. Do not use a rich text editor like Wordpad.) and change the lineeula=false to eula=true. It signifies that you have read and understood the end user license agreement that you'll follow when using the software. If you don't do this, the server will shut down immediately when you try to start it.

If you get an error such as "Can't save server.properties" and your screen fills with useless, gibberish text, then run the Minecraft Server as administrator by right-mouse clicking on it and choosing 'Run as administrator'. (You may need the administrator password to do this.)

Click the Microsoft Icon and in the search box type "cmd" without the quotes

Double click on the result and open up a command window.
Once it opens type "ipconfig"

It will spit out a bunch of things, but what you're interested in is the IPv4 Address. This is the IP address you need to input when searching for your LAN Server when you open up a multiplayer game. Make sure you have the server running.

Once you get comfortable you can open the server properties file and adjust things to your liking, like using a specific seed, or defaulting to a specific game mode.

Here is a site with the server commands. You can run those directly from the server window if you want. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Commands

 

[Foosball God]

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?

I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.

Can you walk me through this like I am stupid?

But I want to setup passwords so his friends can join.

This requires port forwarding. You can read more about that here. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Setting_up_a_server

 

[T Bell]

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?

I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.

Can you walk me through this like I am stupid?

But I want to setup passwords so his friends can join.

Right. The way to do this is by invite only, password protected, and whoever is the (adult) admin needs to approve of every new person admitted to the server.

 

[Hawks64]

For Godzilla mod, looks like?

1) Download Godzilla Mod Here

1a) Install and run the required version of Minecraft first.

2) Download appropriate version of Minecraft Forge here

3) Install Forge

3a) Change the profile to run the Forge version of Minecraft

4) Drag Godzilla zip folder into Forge "Mods" folder

5) Profit?

I've never touched a minecraft app before, does this look correct?

TIA fellas.

 

[Hawks64]

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?

I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.

Can you walk me through this like I am stupid?

But I want to setup passwords so his friends can join.

Right. The way to do this is by invite only, password protected, and whoever is the (adult) admin needs to approve of every new person admitted to the server.

I've thought about that before but my kids and their friends lose their minds when someone gets on their world and jacks everything up...which they all do to each other just using the ipad version's built in server. So I decided it wasn't worth it now. Once they are older and are less worried about that kind of thing I might do it.

 

[Insein]

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

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.

OK I've installed AT Launcher and set up my kids' account in the console. Do I then just run Minecraft normally, or do I have to launch the game a different way?

You will be launching the game through the AT launcher. Pick the mod pack you want (something simple just to get the hang of it) then choose the options for the pack you want. They give a description of each mod and what they do and also have a default list of choices checked off which they recommend. When you choose to install the pack, it may ask you to download the file. It will then redirect you to a download site. This is where you pay attention to what you're clicking and it should all be downloaded and installed within 10 mins or so (depending on how many mods and size).

After that you launch the mod through the AT launcher. Enjoy.

 

[Insein]

I've told my son, who has a bunch of friends at his school who are Minecraft fanatics, that when he gets older I'd be willing to buy him server space to set up a Minecraft community with his friends. I'll have to live vicariously through him because I'd have loved that 30 years ago.

You guys have me thinking about setting up such a server through the FBG's dads...

In

:wave:

 

[Insein]

For Godzilla mod, looks like?

1) Download Godzilla Mod Here

2) Download appropriate version of Minecraft Forge here

3) Install Forge

4) Drag Godzilla zip folder into Forge "Mods" folder

5) Profit?

I've never touched a minecraft app before, does this look correct?

TIA fellas.

In theory this is how you do it. Make sure you select the forge version in the launcher. To change your version edit the profile before clicking play. Sometimes the launcher wants you to run the vanilla version (1.7, 1.6, etc) before making the mod run.

Just be patient because it may not work at first. Persistence is key.

 

[Corporation]

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?

I set up a LAN server, but haven't opened anything up outside my house.

Can you walk me through this like I am stupid?

But I want to setup passwords so his friends can join.

This requires port forwarding. You can read more about that here. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Setting_up_a_server

Thanks I'll try this when we get back.

 

[Mr. Ected]

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.

The difference I noticed between the Xbox and the PC/Mac versions is the fact that on the Xbox you only have to buy the game. On the Computer version, you have to buy users, which makes it more expensive. If your kids are just using it local, they can use with bunches of kids at a time and have a blast.

 

[Insein]

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.

The difference I noticed between the Xbox and the PC/Mac versions is the fact that on the Xbox you only have to buy the game. On the Computer version, you have to buy users, which makes it more expensive. If your kids are just using it local, they can use with bunches of kids at a time and have a blast.

PC version you by access. One time. Then from there on out, any version of Minecraft (Modded or Vanilla) you can connect to with your Mojang account. Not sure how that's more expensive.

 

[Mr. Ected]

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.

The difference I noticed between the Xbox and the PC/Mac versions is the fact that on the Xbox you only have to buy the game. On the Computer version, you have to buy users, which makes it more expensive. If your kids are just using it local, they can use with bunches of kids at a time and have a blast.

PC version you by access. One time. Then from there on out, any version of Minecraft (Modded or Vanilla) you can connect to with your Mojang account. Not sure how that's more expensive.

When you have multiple kids, you have to buy a user per kid. ~$25 per user vs >$20/game and I've got 3 kids!!!

 

[Insein]

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.

The difference I noticed between the Xbox and the PC/Mac versions is the fact that on the Xbox you only have to buy the game. On the Computer version, you have to buy users, which makes it more expensive. If your kids are just using it local, they can use with bunches of kids at a time and have a blast.

PC version you by access. One time. Then from there on out, any version of Minecraft (Modded or Vanilla) you can connect to with your Mojang account. Not sure how that's more expensive.

When you have multiple kids, you have to buy a user per kid. ~$25 per user vs >$20/game and I've got 3 kids!!!

Ah I see. Makes sense then. Still, PC is the way to go.

 

[Mr. Ected]

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.

The difference I noticed between the Xbox and the PC/Mac versions is the fact that on the Xbox you only have to buy the game. On the Computer version, you have to buy users, which makes it more expensive. If your kids are just using it local, they can use with bunches of kids at a time and have a blast.

PC version you by access. One time. Then from there on out, any version of Minecraft (Modded or Vanilla) you can connect to with your Mojang account. Not sure how that's more expensive.

When you have multiple kids, you have to buy a user per kid. ~$25 per user vs >$20/game and I've got 3 kids!!!

Ah I see. Makes sense then. Still, PC is the way to go.

Yup, the oldest likes it on the Mac, he can play easily with his friends that have the computer-based game. Can't mix with Xbox and PC.

 

[Sinn Fein]

Another question - we have had a minecraft license for awhile on one fo our computers - but now they want to be able to join together on separate computers on the house network - I can set the game up on the LAN, but it won't allow both computers to play on the same license - do I need to get separate licenses for the kids, or is there a way they can both play at the same time - in the same world?

 

[MindCrime]

Another question - we have had a minecraft license for awhile on one fo our computers - but now they want to be able to join together on separate computers on the house network - I can set the game up on the LAN, but it won't allow both computers to play on the same license - do I need to get separate licenses for the kids, or is there a way they can both play at the same time - in the same world?

Separate licenses.

 

[Sinn Fein]

Another question - we have had a minecraft license for awhile on one fo our computers - but now they want to be able to join together on separate computers on the house network - I can set the game up on the LAN, but it won't allow both computers to play on the same license - do I need to get separate licenses for the kids, or is there a way they can both play at the same time - in the same world?

Separate licenses.

Thanks....they are getting minecraft for xbox for christmas, so they can live with only a single computer license.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

New minecraft dad checking in

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Got my son a gaming chair. Hooked his laptop up turned on minecraft and now when creepers explode the whole house shakes it feels like.

 

[simsarge]

Rehashing this. I made the mistake a year ago of buying a Chromebook for my daughter as a first computer. One of her primary needs for said first computer was playing Minecraft with her friends. Found out after the fact that Chomebooks (Google) and Minecraft (Microsoft) don't play well together....at all. Mrs Claus was none to thrilled with my selection either.This year Santa will rectify his previous mistake and get the proper tool for the job. Question is, what laptop do I need the techie-elves to make me that'll play Minecraft thingy and also has a DVD drive?

thanks

 

[PIK95]

Why do you need a DVD drive? My son does fine in all those Minecraft survival games with his cheap HP. Our Dell works also.

 

[MikeIke]

I don't think you need a particularly powerful computer to run Minecraft. It does just fine on my run of the mill HP.

 

[simsarge]

Excellent! What I was hoping to hear. The DVD drive is a preference she wanted for watching movies...hopefully not at the same time as she's playing minecraft.

thanks