You can also place waypoints around the map to keep note of certain areas you want to return to. A different friend has learned how to program a turtle to get it to mine diamonds for him.Įven exploring is made super easy, thanks to a handy map that’s always sitting in the corner of the screen. One buddy started growing hemp as a joke, but it turned into a resourceful way to farm string. There’s furniture to make beautiful homes, as if I’m playing The Sims. Image: Mojang/FTB Team via PolygonĪnd there’s so much more in the modpack. I cannot live without this hammer, or any of its sister tools that do similar things - like an axe that cuts down an entire tree when you hit one block - ever again. Now if you hand me a basic pickaxe in vanilla Minecraft, my fingers will crumble into dust immediately.

When you use this hammer on a block, it breaks the eight surrounding blocks too, making it an extremely fast tool to mine with.

Let me tell you, folks: I will no longer play Minecraft if it doesn’t have this hammer. My friend ended up beckoning me back from my quiet biome to his ominous forge to teach me how to make some specialized tools, including my new favorite thing: the hammer. I didn’t know what to expect.Īfter learning that the menacing green portal went to the Mining Biome - a dimension free of any monsters - I built my house in that safe zone and immediately started collecting resources. This felt so far from the basic Minecraft we all knew and loved, but that was the exciting part. My friend had gotten a head start and built a huge, green, unfamiliar portal and a large stone forge at our spawn. We are a lazy group of degenerates, I know.) Image: Mojang/FTB Team via Polygon (I understand that a group of adults in their mid-20s should be able to chuck in a few bucks to pay for a dedicated Minecraft server, but for some reason we all just refused to until now. After testing the waters with server hosting, we decided to suck it up and do the adult thing: buy a dedicated Minecraft server. Unfortunately Feed the Beast Revelation was pretty hard on some of our PCs, so we had to go with a smaller and older pack, Infinity Evolved. Revelation is a huge, unthemed modpack that hosts a whole ton of mods. There’s a “Skyfactory” modpack for high tech and automation, an “Academy” modpack for beginners, and things like that. After watching a pack of streamers play with the Feed the Beast Revelation modpack, we wanted in.įeed the Beast modpacks are bundles of mods, typically with a theme.

We’ve never played with heavy mods before, outside of Pixelmon, just due to the complexity involved with setting up and self-hosting a modded server. We normally pester somebody to host a server on their computer and play basic, vanilla Minecraft for about a week before we get bored.

My friends and I get into Minecraft several times a year. I have seen the heavenly light and it is Minecraft with over a hundred mods packed into it.

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