I have been fascinated by forever-worlds and the opportunity that it creates to make mega builds and farms. But there’s an issue: I really like modded Minecraft, to a point where vanilla is too boring for me and I find myself doing playing with 100+ mods.
The mods I use are mostly tech mods like the Create mod with a ton of adding, QoL mods like backpacks and furniture mods/more building blocks. Usually I play in creative to test out things or build cool structures (they never leave the planning stage) and I struggle to play modded because I don’t really know how to progress. For example: in the create mod i can create a farm to automate building blocks for the create machines, but then what? I could make a wood farm, a huge drill to mine for diamonds or heck even a bat farm, literally everything. Mega builds would be easier to decorate because of mods like chipped or furniture mods but I find that vanilla offers a kind of challenge. It makes you improvise how you could build a kitchen or how to decorate a living room. It also makes the game slower since you can’t automate everything as easily as with mods.
So now the question: should I play with a huge modpack and make crazy farms or interesting builds like steampunk airships with working interiors and the ability to literally fly it, or stick with vanilla that offers an experience that you have to create yourself, without set progression paths after beating the Ender Dragon.
(Pls don’t respond with “it’s up to you”, I really want a subjective answer to this question)
by AlphaStar__
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Up to you
Vanilla
You literally said Vanilla is too boring for you and decided to explain why you prefer modded over vanilla, I see no reason why to force yourself in playing unmodded Minecraft.
Ifbyou pc handles it You can do modded but just distant horizons and other quality mods + shaders, feels very good, i love playing terralith and tectonic with some fun mods with distant horizons as a simple modpack
I made my vanilla world with mods, but only qol mods, or mods that don’t really change the game, or add anything
It depends on your play style. If you like making crazy builds, get some building mods, if you enjoy making insane farms and contraptions, try create, if you enjoy exploring, then get new biomes mods. It’s really all about your play style and how *you* enjoy the game, not how your friends or other people enjoy the game, how *you* like to play.
If you truly do find vanilla boring, try modded. If you don’t like mods, try vanilla. It’s not “up to you”, it’s about how *you* enjoy the game.
I play vanilla+ my rule of thumb is you play to have fun not to play survival I have stuff like huge backpacks and jetpacks which sure is “overpowered” but I don’t give a shit it’s more fun to build while begin able to fly then it is using six million scaffolding blocks
Playing a forever world means you need to keep updating your world to the latest version, which means all your mods need to be compatible with the latest version too no? Not sure how feasible it would be if let’s say some of your mods don’t update anymore.
Vanilla, unless you want to forever be on the version that one mod stopped updating.
I’m not reading that wall of text. A forever world? Should be vanilla.
I would choose vanilla. You don’t know which mods will still be updated in 10 versions from now. Stuff could change in weird ways and break. Mojang could add stuff from a mod to the base game. What would you do if you built your base out of blocks from a mod that then stops getting updated?
Depends on how much you value updating your world to the newest game version. The main appeal of vanilla for this case is that no matter what happens you know you can instantly upgrade an old world to a new version when it releases. Mojang specifically tests to support this.
Mods will make you wait longer depending on which ones you get and how many you have. The mod loader (Fabric/Forge) as well as the mods themselves will need to updated for a world upgrade to work. And if any of them stop development then you are kinda just stuck on that game version.
In my opinion a modded Minecraft world has more potential for expansion than any official Minecraft updates, and it may hold your interest longer. Especially if you keep it simple at first (like only add Create) and then add others over time.
i would do viniala first
My personal preference for a “forever” world is to play only vanilla, no snapshots, latest update, hard mode only etc etc. I love playing with mods, but personally I don’t like hugely gamebreaking things along with having to wait for mod updates just to play the newest version. If I add anything in it has to be small or I feel like I’m giving up too much when I inevitably delete a mod because it loses support.
But I know on the other end there are people who care more about having a lot of modded stuff and prefer older versions anyways, so it tends to work out better for them.
It sounds like modded may be more appropriate for you, but I think both is reasonable. One modded and one vanilla. Could scratch the respective itches.
I personally would recommend vanilla. I like that you have to improvise your builds and I believe that with time you would too!
What do you mean by a Forever World? If it’s just long term survival it sounds like you enjoy playing modded more. But personally the only way to play Minecraft “forever” is pure vanilla so that as long as Mojang is updating it I can play the world without any other hassle
You know that you can play with mods without downloading a modpack, right?
If you have Create, you can use it purely to farm vanilla materials, like wood and stone, without automating the materials needed for Create itself.
Botania is similar, you could automate everything, or you could only automate vanilla stuff.
In the past, I’ve had the same doubt, the short answer… Follow the path that will bring you joy and fun.
Start vanilla and then add a mod whenever it gets boring