Megan Miller - Hacks for Minecrafters: Mods: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Wont Teach You

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Names: Miller, Megan, 1963- author.

Title: Hacks for minecrafters: mods : the unofficial guide to tips and tricks that other guides wont teach you / Megan Miller.

Description: New York : Sky Pony Press, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015046220 (print) | LCCN 2016001460 (ebook) | ISBN 9781510705937 (hardback) | ISBN 9781510706033 ()

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

ALL ABOUT MODS

Welcome to the mad, magical, and high-tech world of modded Minecraft. Modded Minecraft isnt a single game, its Minecraft modified with the mods you want to play with. You can play with one or a couple of mods, a dozen mods, or a modpack that comes ready with a preset selection of mods.

What Are Mods?

Mod is short for modification, and mods are game programming objects that change the way a game behaves. In Minecraft, mods can change how you farm, how you fight, how you mine, and how (and what) you craft, and more. Some mods are simple and change just one small part of the game. For example, JourneyMap adds a very handy mapping system to Minecraft. Other mods change major aspects of Minecraft. The magical mod Thaumcraft creates a unique type of sorcery, with spells, wands, magic energy, and magical mobs for you to play with. Some more examples are:

Simply Jetpacks lets you craft powered jetpacks to fly around in your world. (This is probably my favorite modtheres nothing better than flying!)

The Twilight Forest creates an entirely new dimension you can visit by traveling through a special portal. The Twilight Forest dimension has new animals, mobs, boss mobs, dungeons, and more to explore.

The Extra Utilities adds a bunch of interesting and useful items, tools, and blocks, like conveyer belts, to help move captured mobs or items around, and a bunch of power generators for early game power.

The Twilight Forest mod adds an entirely new dimension to explore, with new boss mobs, biomes, and more.

Mods are made for the Java edition* of Minecraft, and there are several places you can find them:

Planet Minecraft (PMC) at planetminecraft.com/resources/mods/

The Minecraft Forum at minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-mods/

CurseForge at curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods

Mod authors websites

* Add-ons are game customizations for the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft, and currently can only change mob behavior within the game.

What Are Modpacks?

Modpacks are collections of mods that are carefully selected and configured to work together, both in balanced gameplay and in technical compatibility. Modpacks are the easiest way to get started playing with mods, because they are easy to download and install. Some modpacks come with a questing system that gives you challenges to accomplish and sometimes rewards when you complete them. Some modpacks have an overall theme or storyline. In the Forever Stranded modpack, you are stranded on an unknown planet with a dying spaceship and must battle a very harsh desert environment.

In the Forever Stranded modpack, you are stranded on a dusty planet and must struggle to survive against a harsh, dry landscape.

You can find and install modpacks using modpack launchers. The most popular modpack launchers are:

Twitch launcher. The streaming platform Twitch includes a Minecraft launcher in its standalone app. You may hear the Twitch launcher referred to as the Curse launcher, which was a previous modpack launcher now folded into Twitch. Previously, Curse itself took on the management of the popular Feed the Beast (FTB) launcher. FTB is a well-known group of modpack creators, and you will find their modpacks as a category within the Twitch launcher. The FTB group is known for their excellent and balanced modpacks.

AT Launcher, available at atlauncher.com.

Technic Launcher, from the longstanding Technic modding community, available at technicpack.net.

Modpack launchers, like the Twitch launcher, make installing modpacks easy.

This book will look at some of the most popular mods and modpacks available and show you how to download them. Ill also show how to get started playing with modpacks. Many of these mods offer so much gameplay, however, that it is likely youll want even more information on them. In general, you can visit several websites to get more information on how to play. Visit the Curse Forge Minecraft mods site (curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/), and the Minecraft Forum (minecraftforum.net). The ocial FTB wiki and forums (feed-the-beast.com), along with the unocial FTB wiki (ftbwiki. org), also are great sources of information about many mods. Many mods have deeper explanations at their own wiki sites. You can also visit my website at meganfmiller.com for links to these sites and helpful YouTube videos that look at how to play with these mods.