Good ol’ buttcraft butt

I don’t really mean in terms of mods, but like go off if you wanna. I’m a lifelong Minecraft enjoyer, played it basically from Alpha right up to release, and dropped off around 1.2ish. I’ve played it in bursts again over the years, but the more weird stuff they add the more weirded out I feel. I just wanna build houses with sloping rooves, sheesh… It does kind of make me wanna just give up and play Legacy Console on Wii U or something weird.

[Minecraft boomer alert I guess]

I don’t totally hate what they’ve done with the game itself but it’s clear that the launcher is a lost cause. Plus how does Java chug this badly on a Ryzen 2600? I have to choose between a performance mod that makes the game run, or pad support, because one of them uses Fabric and the other uses the other thing. Remember when Minecraft mods was just dumping .jar files into the game’s directory?

I mean to ask, what is the way cool kids play Minecraft nowadays? Are there cool alternative launchers or modpaks or a specific version or whatever I can play that’s cooler than Microsoft Occupied Minecraft and are more fun?

  • Gorb [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    I play the original aether mod while listening to the yogpod and old paul saurs jr vids and do a little cry. This is the way to play.

      • Gorb [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        My home life was shit but this era of internet and minecraft is a vibe and level of emotion i will never achieve again. Loading the latest cooptional/tgs/yogpod pod onto my mp3 player and walking to school. Coming home to og tekkit with my friends and my first venture into hosting servers and understanding how networking works.

        It’s something I’ll never experience again. Especially total biscuit. Nobhead but i loved him dearly.

  • bunnygirl [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    I use Prism as a launcher, makes seperate instances and installing stuff a breeze.

    Also a lot of (popular) mods will have cross modloader versions/ports, like Sodium has the (Neo)Forge ports Embeddium (AFAIK this is currently the best one) and Rubidium, and Controllable has a separate Fabric version in addition to Forge

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    I’m really glad you asked this. I’ve got a couple of kids, all they do is watch Minecraft videos on YouTube. I’ve got a lot of computer hardware lying around, I’d like to setup an old school server for them to play on. Bought a copy of Minecraft way back when but with modern licensing and mojahn whatever I doubt I can even still use it., where to start?

    • The_sleepy_woke_dialectic [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      If it’s pre-microsoft and you haven’t played it in a while, yes M$ took it away and no one has had any success in getting theirs back. You were “supposed” to transfer your mojang account to microsoft (and accept the new licensing) before a certain date.

      If you just want vanilla or a few minor mods that’s very possible, and I recommend papermc as the server. You have to edit just one line in the config file to allow “pirate” accounts to log in.

      PollyMC (two Ls, no longer affiliated with polyMC(one L) (politics) ) is an open source pirate client that is as easy to use as the official launcher.

      Or you could just play Minetest, a full free open source reimplementation of Minecraft with easy DRM free multiplayer in the first place.

      If you need help with any of that just let me know.

    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      Instead of being anonymous/pseudonymous (at least, the ids in the snooper screen don’t match my user id), it now sends the XUID, your Xbox user id, in plain text… which means this data can be traced back to your user.

      Death to america

  • hexaglycogen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    To me, the correct way to play Minecraft is with a friend and pursuing silly, enjoyable goals.

    Something I had a lot of fun doing is playing as “The Heart Tree” while my partner tried to support me. Essentially, I chose a tree I really liked, cut it down except for its lowest block (now designated “The Heart Block”), and I always would have to be touching or very close to logs which descend from the original tree.

    I also had fun playing Modded Skyblock with my friend from high school, focusing on guiding progression and decorating (since I knew how to progress a lot better than he did), but not making too much progress personally.

    To me, I intrinsically feel a drive to constantly chase progression, but ultimately find myself more fulfilled when I try and lay back and weave progression with genuine attention and enjoying the “unproductive” things, looking to make nifty floor patterns and building materials and interacting with friends.

  • EstraDoll [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    I mean to ask, what is the way cool kids play Minecraft nowadays?

    idk how the cool kids do it but as a big fucking nerd? i’ve been trying to get into Gregtech: New Horizons which is Minecraft for a very specific subset of autistic masochists who like to spend 18 years doing basic shit. I only really quit because every time I booted it up I could hear my ram chip crying

    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      161·
      3 months ago

      agni-pain I think part of my issue is I do not have the correct autism, I never got into redstone or whatever, the weird engineering shit people do in minecraft yeets my brain… I can still remember when it was just about blocks…

      • EstraDoll [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        oh that’s beyond fair. Gregtech is bizarre and sucks and that’s exactly why I like it. I don’t think I’ve even made it to actual machines, unless you count a windmill multiblock

  • combat_brandonism [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    I mean to ask, what is the way cool kids play Minecraft nowadays? Are there cool alternative launchers or modpaks or a specific version or whatever I can play that’s cooler than Microsoft Occupied Minecraft and are more fun?

    minetest.net

  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    I use ATLauncher, it’s broadly fine. Pretty easy to find and install modpacks from various sources. I was playing the Create Astral pack but it kept annoying me into tweaking it until I gave up, so now I’m waiting for the hexbear server to launch.

    Pretty sure the 7600K that I have is even worse than the 2600 and it runs fine on my machine. You do have to enable the thing to allow it to use enough ram. This guide seems to cover how to do that in a bunch of different launchers.