I got Minecraft a while back, Recently, a few mods have caught my eye, and I have wanted to download some. However, I've heard a lot of lingo that I don't understand. I've head the following things below me allow me to download mods and such, but I don't know what they are. Can someone explain the following things to me, as well as provide links and compare them? (As well as any other mod-enabler things you think I might need to know about.) Thanks!
You can download the Feed The Beast modpack. It's got some mods pre-installed, like Gravigun, and the Portal gun mod. I don't know how to add just one mod though.
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Round? I know of no such thing as "round" That's just impossible!
For example, some mods that change or add recipes to the game need modloader to work. Otherwise the mod will do nothing even though it was installed the right way.
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ID - Item/Block ID's are a way minecraft blocks and items present themselves, every item/block can have 1 unique ID
Forge - API/Somethin which is required by "Forge mods", they are easy to install and made to work together. You might need to change ID's from time to time when installing new mods, but there Forge comes in place cause it has integrated "module" which with it supports up to ~4000 Block and Item ID's. Every mod is simple to install as all you need to do is drop mod zip file in mods folder. Lot of mods are now made for Forge as it is better than Risugami's Mod Loader.
MCPatcher - A program which is used to patch some minecraft files and add features like HD Textures Patch (Textures which outbound 16×16 pixels limit) - Without that patch HD Texturepack look wierd, it also adds Better Grass Patch (Connected grass), Random Mobs (Random mob textures - requires texturepacks which support that feature cause vanilla MC doesn't have more than one texture for every mob), Connected Textures (No borders if same blocks (Glass, Bookshelves) are placed next to each other).
I don't really use this programs cause of:
OptiFine - Minecraft mod, compatible with Forge, but needs to be installed in minecraft.jar. Contains all features from MCPatcher, FPS Boost (Removes Lag), and all of those are configurable under Video Settings in minecraft, it also has features souch as View distance slider, ability to remove any animations in minecraft (to remove Lag), toggleable Time & Weather, and mouch more, I would recomend you this mod if you are getting lag and it removes lag when you have installed toon of mods.
Client/Server - Client is the thing you run every time you play minecraft, it renders textures and graphics (Blocks & Items), and Server does rest of the work (Remembering player locations, things inside chests and furnaces).
If you find on Mod website - Client download, it means that you need to install it normally like every other world, Server downloads are files that you need to worry about only if you are going to run your own server with mods, Universal downloads are ones which can be installed in Servers and Clients, note that some mods are Client only, like for instance Rei's Minimap, Cause it only displays minimap and doesn't change game mechanics. If you install client only mods on servers you will probably get a crash. Also Inventory Tweaks is also client only mod.
ModLoader - Something that loads mods, there are "Risugami's ModLoader"/"ModLoader"/"RML" and "ForgeModLoader"/"FML" both do the same thing, FML was actually added to Forge so it can support RML mods, but RML cannot support FML mods.
I recommend you using Forge and OptiFine, also notice that TooManyItems mod does not work with most of the Forge mods so instead install NotEnoughItems from chicken_bones. Don't bother about MCPatcher cause no one actually uses it, if any mod says that you need MCPatcher install OptiFine and it should work better.
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Wow. Thanks for the in-depth explanataion of the Mod Enablers. I One-upped you post (If thats anything of significance, I dunno...)
Can you provide links to Optifine and Forge, as well as find an explanation as how to download them? Whenever I search for them, the results only turn up Forge-enabled and Optifine-enabled mods.
Also, should I download them in an particular order?
I got Minecraft a while back, Recently, a few mods have caught my eye, and I have wanted to download some. However, I've heard a lot of lingo that I don't understand. I've head the following things below me allow me to download mods and such, but I don't know what they are. Can someone explain the following things to me, as well as provide links and compare them? (As well as any other mod-enabler things you think I might need to know about.) Thanks!
Forge
MCPatcher
Optifine
Client
ModLoader
Thanks again,
-Thegreenrobby
For example, some mods that change or add recipes to the game need modloader to work. Otherwise the mod will do nothing even though it was installed the right way.
Forge - API/Somethin which is required by "Forge mods", they are easy to install and made to work together. You might need to change ID's from time to time when installing new mods, but there Forge comes in place cause it has integrated "module" which with it supports up to ~4000 Block and Item ID's. Every mod is simple to install as all you need to do is drop mod zip file in mods folder. Lot of mods are now made for Forge as it is better than Risugami's Mod Loader.
MCPatcher - A program which is used to patch some minecraft files and add features like HD Textures Patch (Textures which outbound 16×16 pixels limit) - Without that patch HD Texturepack look wierd, it also adds Better Grass Patch (Connected grass), Random Mobs (Random mob textures - requires texturepacks which support that feature cause vanilla MC doesn't have more than one texture for every mob), Connected Textures (No borders if same blocks (Glass, Bookshelves) are placed next to each other).
I don't really use this programs cause of:
OptiFine - Minecraft mod, compatible with Forge, but needs to be installed in minecraft.jar. Contains all features from MCPatcher, FPS Boost (Removes Lag), and all of those are configurable under Video Settings in minecraft, it also has features souch as View distance slider, ability to remove any animations in minecraft (to remove Lag), toggleable Time & Weather, and mouch more, I would recomend you this mod if you are getting lag and it removes lag when you have installed toon of mods.
Client/Server - Client is the thing you run every time you play minecraft, it renders textures and graphics (Blocks & Items), and Server does rest of the work (Remembering player locations, things inside chests and furnaces).
If you find on Mod website - Client download, it means that you need to install it normally like every other world, Server downloads are files that you need to worry about only if you are going to run your own server with mods, Universal downloads are ones which can be installed in Servers and Clients, note that some mods are Client only, like for instance Rei's Minimap, Cause it only displays minimap and doesn't change game mechanics. If you install client only mods on servers you will probably get a crash. Also Inventory Tweaks is also client only mod.
ModLoader - Something that loads mods, there are "Risugami's ModLoader"/"ModLoader"/"RML" and "ForgeModLoader"/"FML" both do the same thing, FML was actually added to Forge so it can support RML mods, but RML cannot support FML mods.
I recommend you using Forge and OptiFine, also notice that TooManyItems mod does not work with most of the Forge mods so instead install NotEnoughItems from chicken_bones. Don't bother about MCPatcher cause no one actually uses it, if any mod says that you need MCPatcher install OptiFine and it should work better.
After a long long life, you find out that infinity is really not all that long.
Can you provide links to Optifine and Forge, as well as find an explanation as how to download them? Whenever I search for them, the results only turn up Forge-enabled and Optifine-enabled mods.
Also, should I download them in an particular order?