#often times mods are too complex and add too much over vanilla minecraft when I like vanilla minecraft

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The Beginning of the Oops, Finale!

Well, we’re sitting on a pile of machinery, pumping out iron by the boatload. Maybe we have a quarry up, churning out enough diamonds to make a shiny, slippery throne. So now we’re thinking about the endgame. Beating that dragon, or whatever is in the Twilight Forest, building a giant statue of yourself in gold blocks, whatever floats your boat. Either way, now that we’re done, it’s time to look back over it.

Which Minecraft to go for, Vanilla or Modded? The temptation is to say modded right off the bat. It has the most things to do. It’s a gigantic toolbox, essentially. Whatever you want, you can find just by digging right down to the bottom. There are significant problems with modded, however, and these are worth considering before you dive in. It’s all going to boil down to what you want from Minecraft as a whole.

It’s a pretty unique game, in that anyone can get something from it even if they’re attacking it from different angles. For me personally, I’m a miner and a crafter. I like digging big holes and strip mining out the land in gross indifference to the natural beauty. With those materials I like building things and cramming them all together. It never looks pretty, and often isn’t that functional, but it’s fun.

For me, modded Minecraft is the ultimate realisation of that dream. Feed the Beast adds a ton more minerals, so every hole ends up resulting in something. Granted, there may be a few too many minerals. Each chunk is crammed full of stuff and as a result the things you actually want tend to be shunted off to the side. I found a giant ravine, for example, and only found one small vein of diamonds after searching for hours. It fell into lava. I was not impressed. There’s a lot of digging through dross in modded Minecraft, trying to find the specific thing you want..

There’s also the performance issues, which are worth mentioning before we go any further. Most modern modpacks have mods in that try to alleviate the issues but it still has the odd freezing and stuttering. The more machines you have, the worse this will get. Of course, Minecraft itself has never been flawless in the performance department but modded may tax your machine even more. You have to ask whether that is worth it.

Let’s approach it from an angle that I certainly don’t get: the builder angle. If you’re in Minecraft just to build nice structures, then there’s little use for all these mods. You can do most of that with the variety of blocks in vanilla. A lot of people have. There’s even a project that’s recreating the whole of Middle Earth. People’s dedication to this stuff is really impressive. Adding a bunch of mods, and making your game more unstable by nature, doesn’t really help that. You might get a few more tools but it’s not going to do much.

There are things like chisels and such, mind. But those performance issues may be more frustrating when you’re trying to put together a big project. It all comes down to what you want out of it; what your goals are. Mine are to build a bunch of machines; to make the world’s most unsafe laboratory. Can’t do that in normal Minecraft so mods are the way forward. If you want to make a nice looking city though, you might be best off going for the safer, smoother vanilla.

All of this reflects very well on Minecraft. It’s a wonderfully simple game, which makes all of these mods fit in well. If you want to wire up a machine, you just build the wires and slap them on the ground. Nice and simple. It’s very fertile ground simply because there are no complex mechanics to work around. Hence why it has one of the biggest modding scenes on the market today. You can do whatever you want with vanilla Minecraft but if you want just a little bit more, check out some mods. Just don’t set off a nuke anywhere near your house. Trust me.

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