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Playing minecraft without mods as an adult is like eating a plain potato, or like going to a party without inebriating substances.
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..
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
Server hosting and using mods to improve performance/server moderation tools is a bit different than playing with mods.
Fair, although stock Minecraft without QOL is rough around the edges (especially if we're talking performance or accessibility)
Even client mods are almost a must for things like saturation monitoring or ease of navigation
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
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 - and I feel bad for those who joined the party later and never knew what 1.7.10 (or 1.6.4, or 1.5.2 for that matter) has to offer.
It goes so bad that when I recently loaded a newer version, I was like "what the hell is going on here" :D
1.3 was another nasty one. That was the one where multiplayer and singleplayer were merged and LAN play was introduced. Before that mods were released specifically for either single or multiplayer and authors would have to specifically build 2 versions of every mod if they wanted to enable use in multiplayer. This shift killed a ton of mods and version 1.2.5 was a peak for mods like Red Power for example
If you use an alternate launcher like Prism Launcher it is trivial to install tons of modpacks for any version of Minecraft and manage many different mod loadouts (with handy search and auto-download of both modpacks and individual mods, plus it makes it super easy to modify a modpack you downloaded and add/remove mods) Its really the best way to play modded Minecraft (and has been since the fork from MultiMC) plus unlike most launchers which are super-simplified to not scare newbies, Prism Launcher also exposes tons of handy technical stuff if you want to dive deeper, such as optionally displaying full logs, java version and argument management, world edit and other tool integrations and more.
Duude. I was super big into reading all of the changelogs and learning all of the undocumented changes from the wikis for every version and preview from when I first started playing back in Beta 1.7.3 until around version 1.6.4 or so. Booting up modern... 1.20something? I can't even remember whats currentish anymore...anyways I'm so lost and then I try to play like a Beta 1.7.3 player and everyone else just goes "the fuck are you doing?"
No need to advertise Prism - using it already :)
Also, UltimMC is a decent offline fork for pirates and privacy enthusiasts (Disclaimer: I do not promote piracy and own a legal Minecraft license)
Happily, I joined Minecraft when it was already 1.7.2 (release versioning, not Beta), so my ways are not THAT outdated, and obviously I never had issues with 1.7.10 because it's literally my first version with two minor updates. Who would have known that it will all stop there...
Also, I struck some delicate balance with mods at version 1.21.1, but it is for sure still a much different experience.
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!
Edit: just want to add that applied energistics and mekanism are fantastic mods, I'd put them up there with create, so if you haven't tried them it might be worth just adding one or both to an otherwise unmodded playthrough.
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!