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Minecraft/Modding Can I install a shader to a Modpack?
ShelLuser
• 08/26/2026 5:39 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

That's definitely possible, though I don't have any experience with Modrinth. But if you check a modpack such as All The Mods then you'll also find several included shaderpacks included.
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Minecraft/DataPacks how do I design a custom elytra
ShelLuser
• 08/25/2026 4:47 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

What exactly do you mean with custom? A customized name, specific enchantments and such?

That's relatively easily done using commands, just add the extra NBT data while you're /give'ing yourself the item. This wiki page is a good read for that.

Keep in mind that this command heavily changed with more recent Minecraft versions; there's quite a difference between, say, 1.20.1 and the current version.
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Minecraft/DataPacks is it possible to make custom data necesary for certain items in a recipe?
ShelLuser
• 08/25/2026 4:43 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

When in doubt about these things then you should always check the Minecraft wiki (the official one). Like this page: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Recipe_(Java_Edition).

Anyway, Command already answered this one; unfortunately not. Recipes only accept ID's, tags or an array (which can also only contain ID's).
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Minecraft/Modding What are your favorite quality-of-life Minecraft mods?
ShelLuser
• 08/16/2026 5:16 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Late reaction (I know) but.. .better late than never? I've been very absent from most fora due to the massive heatwave in the Netherlands.

Anywhoo... interesting question!

Some of the absolute must-haves for my friend Aya & me are....

• Iris & Sodium, or variants when playing with older Forge versions (like Oculus & Embeddium) => These will drastically improve your visual options as well as increase overal performance for your game. It will even open up the option to use so called shaders which can help enhance your visual experience even further. Do be careful there because some shaders can really go the distance; getting to see a realistic sky, sometimes with a rainbow (or an aurora at night) is no exception.
• ModernFix & Ferrit Core => Optimization is the name of the game for Java edition, and this combo is going to do just that: better memory management and once again better optimizations for some specific routines. You're bound to see performance improvements.
• EnhacedVisuals => An absolute must-have according to us, and the fun part is that it's all in the details. Are you running hard? Then you might get to see some sweat drops on your screen. Are you coming out of the water after a swim? Your vision gets briefly blurred (as if the water is leaving your eyes) and are you suddenly low on hearts? Now you'll literally hear (and feel?) your heart pounding and your vision is also having issues... concentrate, concentrate!! This mod is awesome!
• Carry On => Why wouldn't you be able to grab a chicken to transport it back into its pen? Or what about that furnace... you can carry a stack of cobblestone (actually.. multiple!) so why wouldn't you be able to just grab & lift the block (without your pickaxe!) and place it somewhere else? Surely you should be able to move your chests around like this as well? That's what this mod does... and it can be an awesome change.
• Corpse => This is a little more intrusive, but still something to consider. If you die then you won't just lose all your stuff. Instead your body will be lying at the place where you died, and it will still have all your stuff on it. Find your way back, and then carry on? ;)

Those are absolute must haves for us, and they won't change your game too much... However... the following are a bit more intrusive but still.... very much worth it:

• JEI (Just Enough Items) => Ever needed to know a recipe? Look no more! This mod isn't only useful to tell you how to make, say, a furnace. It can also be used to check if that same furnace can also be used in other recipes. We have the recipe book in vanilla Minecraft, this is a much better version of it. You can even expand the experience with mods like "Just enough Professions" which tells you all about villager types, or "Just enough Breeding" informing you exactly what food you want to feed a mob to, ahem, get it into the good mood? ;)
  
• Jade ("What Am I Looking At?") => This will show you a dialog which tells you all you need to know about the block you're looking at. I'm sure you'll know the difference between a grass block & cobblestone (lol) but this goes further than that: how about a brief preview of the items in a chest? Or how about a status update telling you how long it'll take for that beef to cook? Planted wheat? This will also tell you how far your crops have grown.
• Not Enough Animations => Moving an item from your main to your offhand? Now your friends get to see you actually doing that. Looking at a map? Your friends will be able to peek over your shoulder too. This is the figurative icing on the cake (and it's not a lie!).
• A map mod like Xaero's world & mini map, or Journeymap => We think that this is the fine grey line between vanilla and more 'intrusive' mods. A map mod is awesome to keep track of your surroundings, to find your death point again and well... to help you navigate. Yes, you will get to know about caves nearby, or lava lakes. But it can also really help you to get more out of your game, and it's awesome when playing with others because you can keep track of each other too.

SO yah... those are my tips. Hope this could still be helpful.
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Help/JavaEdition NEW TO THIS!
ShelLuser
• 06/13/2026 7:57 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

This is just my personal take on it, but I'd start with grabbing the Prism launcher. It's faster than the vanilla launcher, and fully supports modding. You can literally set up different Minecraft 'instances', attach modloaders, download & install mods or... set up a whole modpack.

I actually wrote a guide about this some years ago... this one.

Maybe food for thought?
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Minecraft/Discussion What do you hate most about Minecraft?
ShelLuser
• 06/12/2026 10:18 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

The seeming disrespect for the modding community. A few months ago CDPR released a new release of Cyberpunk 2077, but... also made sure to add a "beta" version to Steam so that players could continue playing the current mods.

Meanwhile Mojang is trying to increase releases for no apparent reason at all and it only hinders the modding community.

Not to mention that most of those updates aren't all that special anymore; it's mostly cosmetic these days.
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Minecraft/Discussion So what is your favorite tree (not wood!)?
ShelLuser
• 06/11/2026 10:15 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Thanks everyone for voting, but I think the results speak for themselves... We all need to switch to Spruce now ;)
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Minecraft/Discussion What was the best Minecraft update?
ShelLuser
• 06/10/2026 1:17 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

For me it's 1.20.1, simply because this was (and is) a huge milestone for modded gameplay.

At the time of writing there are dozens of mods which only support versions up to 1.20.1, amongst which some pretty big names too!
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Minecraft/Modding Ice & Fire mod: Do you allow pixies to steal or not?
ShelLuser
• 06/09/2026 11:07 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

This just in... seems no one is playing with this mod? ;) Oh well, maybe I should re-visit my previous mod review ;)
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Minecraft/Discussion what mc launcher do yall use?
ShelLuser
• 06/05/2026 10:18 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Prism.

For a multitude of reasons... First the fact that you can grab mods and modpacks from all places. But second: you can customize just about everything.

My friend Aya & me play on a private modded Minecraft server; we both use Prism. Now, I do the tech stuff so to say, so I make sure that the mods which we want to add to our collection find their way to the server and Aya's laptop. But... how do you automate something like that?

Yah... I ended up relying on Git to manage all our mods. Maybe not the most efficient way, but it sure as heck does all we need. I even shared a story about that on Reddit (which is also going to find its way here, working on something else first).

Here's the thing: Prism allows you to set up custom commands for an instance launch as well. Pre-launch, post-launch, you can even write your own wrapper. SO... I customized my gf's laptop and added a "git pull" command to the pre-launch, thus automatically making sure that she always has the most up to date version of our mod collection whenever she fires up our game.

Not to mention that you don't get any spam anymore... Seriously: while vanilla players are waiting for the armadillo to finish I'm already waiting for my instance to fire up.
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Minecraft/Discussion Is Minecraft getting too cluttered with single-use items?
ShelLuser
• 06/03/2026 2:39 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai
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To be honest, I've felt like this for years already. Most updates over the past years have been mostly cosmetic. New block types which mods often already added years ago, or items which don't really "do" much (like those goat horns) or... they add mobs which you basically never get to see (my friend Aya is still disappointed over the fact that they changed the behavior of bunnies which nowadays run away from you).

SO yah, I've been indifferent to all this for years now. Also one of the reasons why Aya & me still happily play on 1.20.1 (modded!) and don't have any plans yet for any upgrades.
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Minecraft/Discussion YOUR Favorite Shaders Pack
ShelLuser
• 06/03/2026 2:34 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I used to run BSL, but then discovered ComplementaryUnbound; my friend Aya & me love it.

Things look nicer, it has some extras (like an aurora during cold nights, and a rainbow after, well, rain) but most of all it lights up every vanilla ore which gives things a really cool look in dungeons. Spotting some faint red beam, then uncovering redstone and standing in a bright(ish) reddish glow ... that makes mining quite different.
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Minecraft/Modding A new MC mod loader.
ShelLuser
• 06/02/2026 4:18 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

No offense intended, but as long as you're only sharing a readme without any source code then I don't think anyone would want to try this, the risks are simply too high. Not to mention that you're not sharing any kind of useful info. You say "mods", but what type?

Meanwhile... I just fire up Prism, check the settings of whatever instance I want to work on and I can just add/remove mods on the fly; and fire up my game as well. It's hard to compete with established projects like that.
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Minecraft/Discussion Thoughts about new drop update?
ShelLuser
• 06/02/2026 3:53 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I didn't vote because none of the options applied to me...

Anyway... it's not that I don't like the update, it's actually worse than that: I'm completely indifferent about this, I simply don't care. That's the luxury of being a vivid modded Minecraft player. We're still on 1.20.1 and having a great time.
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Help/JavaEdition How do I make a collection?
ShelLuser
• 05/31/2026 3:39 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

What kind of collection? As Mystic already mentioned: a collection on the site is pretty straight forward. But a mod collection, can be something else.

Essentially anyone can group a few mods together, but making mods "interact"... that's often the real trick, a task best handled by a datapack.
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Minecraft/Discussion 26.1 New Minecraft Version
ShelLuser
• 03/31/2026 3:06 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Not too bad IMO, but at the same time I also don't really care all that much considering that we're still enjoying our heavily modded 1.20.1 game.
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Discussions/Gaming Why Minecraft is the BEST GAME
ShelLuser
• 03/31/2026 3:03 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I definitely agree with this one... my friend Aya & me have been playing since 1.7.10 and onward and we're still here. Though... in all honesty we also got a little bored with vanilla. It's not bad or anything (obviously not!) but after so many updates which were mostly cosmetic changes vs. actually new stuff we kinda shifted our attention towards mods and yah...

Still playing on 1.20.1 and still having a great time. Some mods are simply masterpieces: so much cool stuff (and mechanics!) to discover, and sometimes even more got added in updates later on (like Create's update 6?).
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Minecraft/Discussion Serious question, Why would ANYONE in their right mind even use bedrock edition?
ShelLuser
• 12/15/2025 4:32 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I played Bedrock on Windows a few times, and it was at one point also a good alternative to play Minecraft on my laptop which was a bit too lightweight.

But other than that... Naah. I don't like the interface, I don't like the constant spam and advertisement and I also don't like the lack of proper customization options.
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Minecraft/Modding What is YOUR Favorite mod of all time, and why?
ShelLuser
• 12/05/2025 3:40 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

It really depends on context... different mods do different things... Still, all in all I'd go for Botania. I appreciate the mod, but my gf loves it and doesn't want to play without it anymore, and we're always having a lot of fun playing together; I enjoy playing together a lot.

The problem is... I couldn't appreciate some mods as much as I do without the support of others. Think mods like JEI and Jade and the likes. And most mods have clear dependencies.
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Minecraft/Discussion What's your unluckiest Minecraft moment?
ShelLuser
• 09/14/2025 1:25 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I've told this story more often but meh, why not again?

So... it wasn't me but my gf who first discovered Minecraft and then showed it to me. At first I wasn't all that excited but then she showed me... redstone. Note: Aya didn't really know all that much about it, but she showed me more than enough for my brain to get lit on fire: that was digital circuitry at its finest!

This was a Friday evening, just before dinner. During dinner I nabbed myself my own license and after dinner Aya was kind enough to help me get started. She set me up in a creative world, pointed me to the redstone tab and I honestly had the time of my life... I made AND, NOR, XOR circuits like crazy and OMG, a game allows you to do THIS crazy stuff?

And it only got better, because then Aya told me that you could play together, so I joined her game. We we're going find a a good place to set up camp, make tools and get mining and such.

...and then we got to a ravine (note: this was back in 1.8, ok?). But I knew just what to do: run up, jump, tab space twice (!) and you'll swoop right over.

Errr, yah... I ran, I jumped, Aya (IRL) yelled: wth are you doing? And instead of swooping over... I fell into the ravine and blam, I was dead. with my spawnpoint still all the way back. Aya laughed her head off (grrrr!) but yah, I do admit... in hindsight it was funny as heck (note: she never set me up or anything, if I had only been a little more patient, but nah... gotta "impress" the gf!).

Still... all that experimenting worked miracles for me. I build the weirdest specific redstone contraptions back in the day (still do at times). You know: have the picture frame clockwise, step on the plate and within due time (= approx. 10 - 20 seconds) run over to the second to reveal the hidden door.

But yah... me "flying" into the ravine, lol!
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