It’s amazing that it;s all contained in a single map download. Extremely impressed
Yeah! And the map itself is amazing. (Which was definitely a sore point in the LotR mod.)
Seeing ray tracing in Minecraft is right up there for me with the first time walking out of the Vortex Rikers in Unreal or getting off the train in City 17 in Half Life 2. Even my basic box house becomes this incredible mix of light and shadow that I just stand there watching it change from night to day and back again.
Why is it, after all these years, still so difficult to install mods for this game? I generally know what I’m doing and it took me 45 minutes to install a mod on my server and set up my kids so they could play with each other on it. One mod! Not even any dependencies!
Its not difficult at all. I just use a launcher like FTB which comes with tuns of mod packs and it handles it all itself. I have not installed mods from scratch in years. The most I have done is add a mod to an existing mod pack.
I highly recommend Infinity Evolved:
Here is a video on installing it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ6wGhuiDVc
What kills me isn’t so much the mod installing, but the fact that so many mod packs take forever to load. No other game I play approaches modpack load times.
Most mod packs have hundreds of mods. You can open up a log window and watch all the work that’s going on during your 5-minute startup sequence.
It’s also when I play a major mod pack I generally don’t quit out of the game entirely but just leave it running in the background on the main menu.
MultiMc is my new go to for installing packs. Find em on curse, download the zip and import. So easy.
Newer versions of minecraft (15 and 16) load significantly faster. The new replacement for Forge, Fabric is crazy fast, but there’s not that many mods for it yet.
The Twitch App has a free Minecraft mod manager, which is pretty good. It saved my children’s lives as I was about to kill them for asking for a new Minecraft mod hourly. With this they could do it on their own - and even make their own modpacks.
Well this is a topic close to my heart, as I wrote the Twitch mod pack stuff. Helping parents deal with kids wanting to install mods was a big part of the idea. One click installation.
I left Twitch last year, and they’re selling CurseForge and all the mod stuff from the Twitch client to Overwolf. I’m consulting on that transition, and you can expect Fabric support soon on that platform.
Had a great time with my son over the weekend:
It’s kyoto.apexmc.co if anyone cares to check it out.
I just got a RTX 3080 card installed. I would like to try RTX minecraft. I googled this and found the stuff for the xbox insider hub where you sign up for it. I did all that. Then these articles end with that last step. Some say its installed automatically, yet I can’t seem to find it.
There is a “show in store” button on the xbox insider hub, which takes me to a store page to buy minecraft, which I already own, but not in the microsoft store. I know they are migrating majong accounts to the MS store, but so far I have no idea how to do that. I just find articles on that MS is going to end support for the majong login/account, but nothing on how you actually migrate or get credit for the minecraft account in the MS store.
That’s because the how to hasn’t been published by Microsoft yet. The account migration hasn’t started yet.
Ok. Has anyone installed RTX minecraft yet? If so, can it be done without owning a copy on the MS store?
Unless something has changed, no. Its an opt-in beta if you own Minecraft on the MS store.
Oh if I bought Minecraft 15 years ago or whatever for the original Java version, I get a Microsoft copy sometime soon? I won’t buy it again then.
Hmm, seems like that’s not the case.
No, if you did not migrate your account to the MS version of the Majong account, then you lost your copy. Now it seems we need to do this again.
You have to own the Microsoft Store Windows 10 version to join / enable the RTX beta. Java won’t work.