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Minecraft/Discussion Do you use the services of Wandering Trader (the) ;)
ShelLuser
• 09/11/2025 8:03 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Maybe a fun (but cruel) tip... my friend and me play 'modded' and one of those mods is EvilCraft which introduces blood. If a mob falls off a cliff for example then they can leave some behind.

So when in Creative I sometimes like to do: "/execute as @e[​type=minecraft:wandering_trader] at @s run tp @e[​type=!minecraft:player,distance=..10] ~ 500 ~". That's a sure way to sent them flying ;)
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Minecraft/Discussion What Version of minecraft is the best?
ShelLuser
• 09/09/2025 9:22 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

1.20.1 for me, because that's the version which most mods support and I barely play vanilla anymore.
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Help/JavaEdition Shaders! Help!
ShelLuser
• 05/31/2025 5:07 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Yups, same process. Keep in mind though that the availability for newer versions isn't always guaranteed, though Fabric & the Iris project are very fast when it comes to supporting the latest version. Usually they need no longer than a week after a new release comes out.
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Help/JavaEdition Shaders! Help!
ShelLuser
• 05/24/2025 8:07 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai
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Shaders are essentially nothing more but mods. So... you need a modloader, the mods and obviously a good resource and shaderpack to take advantage.

Now, fair disclaimer: all of the following is obviously based on my own personal preferences, there's more than what I'm showing you.

First stop: Prism; this is a so called (3rd party) launcher which can be used to fire up your game. Better yet: Prism can also make it a lot easier to install new Minecraft versions, apply modloaders and even download mods from both major websites (= CurseForge & Modrinth). I even wrote a guide about this some time ago.

Once you have that set up... install a new instance (I strongly suggest to focus on 1.20.1 for now because this version is currently best supported) and pick Fabric as the modloader.

Next stop: open up the mod section, select "Modrinth" as the source and go look for Iris & Sodium. Iris provides the actual shader support while Sodium helps to improve on general performance. It's a power combo. Remember: you don't need to use these links I shared, use Prism to grab these instead. My links are merely shared for reference.

But wait.. there's more! You see, if you install this stuff and fire up your game you'll notice that... wait.. nothing really changed?

You'll want to grab a resourcepack & a shader pack too! My personal favorite being CreatorPack (= resource pack) and Complementary Unbound; this shader has everything... moving foliage, awesome looking water (and sky), sporadic rainbows (my gf loves these) and best of all... (vanilla) ore blocks now "glow in the dark".

Lemme... just a moment... lessee.... there:



See what I mean?

(edit)

Meh, now I feel like showing off a bit more... so here's how it looks like on the surface:



Notice the shades (no pun intended)?

This is seriously a whole new way to play Minecraft, I can tell you that. Sure, my game is also fully modded but the shaders (and resource pack) definitely make it a whole new experience.

Hope this can help!
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Minecraft/Modding Server Side Protection Mod/DataPack
ShelLuser
• 05/19/2025 5:46 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

(Neo)Forge servers are very pesky when it comes to protection, also because they don't provide any options out of the box.

Still... I'm quite fond of "Open parties & claims", by Xaero. This one is especially useful if you also use their map mods. And I also enjoyed FLAN (though this one started misbehaving on me).

I'd suggest to search Curseforge, there are quite a few options available as far as I can see.
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Minecraft/Discussion netherite is overrated, change my mind
ShelLuser
• 05/14/2025 5:21 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Agreed, but... what about the time/reward progression? It's "better", but how much? Not that big of a deal all things considered.
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Minecraft/Discussion Do you prefer newer versions or older versions of Minecraft? (Vanilla/Modded)
ShelLuser
• 03/09/2025 5:20 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I'm a die-hard modded player so.. I never go latest & greatest anymore. 1.20.1 is all the awesomeness my gf & me need for now.
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Minecraft/Discussion deleted
ShelLuser
• 03/06/2025 9:58 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Nothing would really change for me actually.

I mean, "phase out" doesn't imply that the Java edition will instantly disappear from the face of the Earth, so I'd simply keep on playing with all my mods. Heck, because I prefer "modded Minecraft" I barely upgrade anyway; I'm currently stil happily playing on 1.20.1 and so far have zero intention to upgrade any time soon.

But of course if things would go completely sour... then once again no problem. In that case I'll focus on my big #2 survival game: Empyrion, Galactic Survival. I love that game, also set up a local LAN server and my gf & me have spent numerous of hours building, exploring and surviving.
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Minecraft/Discussion deleted
ShelLuser
• 01/15/2025 3:22 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Agreed.

My friend Aya also loved to keep bunnies around and well, feed them, breed them and take care of them. But it's just like you said... for some stupid reason Mojang figured they needed to change the behavior and just like you Aya stopped caring about them.

Guess Mojang either never heard of domisticated animals, or they're not as qualified as they claim to be when it comes to behavioral programming.

Thankfully there's always mods... Alexmobs is a very cool mod that adds a ton of animals to your world, including many which can be somewhat tamed.
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Minecraft/Discussion How to beat Minecraft? (Wrong answers only)
ShelLuser
• 01/06/2025 6:47 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Oh, that is actually very easy! You just need to "Matrix" it. So, that 20 block wide chasm? Get a good running start, do a solid double jump and try to cross it. Once it's established that you're "the one" then the game is as good as won ;)

.... or you splatter on the bottom and will probably loose all your stuff as well because it'll take too long for you to get down there ;)
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Help/JavaEdition Warden! HELP!
ShelLuser
• 01/04/2025 3:26 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Try digging a hole. Maybe run away a bit, turn and start digging, try to get a hole at least 2 - 3 blocks deep. If the Warden manages to stumble into that then chances are high that he won't be able to get out. Of course... this is somewhat risky. Got any potions on you?

Second option... build up, and then stay very, very, quiet.

Do you have wool or lava or such on you? Wool can dampen your noise from the warden, lava can seriously hurt him because he's vulnerable to fire.
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Help/JavaEdition Need Help for choosing a Mod Loader
ShelLuser
• 01/04/2025 3:23 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I guess it depends on what you want out of the whole thing. Generally speaking Forge & NeoForge are more heavily used than Fabric right now, though all three modloaders are solid choices in general. So... if this is merely about getting a good start in modding... then Fabric is definitely a good choice. But if you plan on getting more serious and releasing mods of your own... then you might want to focus on Forge and/or NeoForge.
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Minecraft/Discussion What is Minecraft? (Wrong answers only)
ShelLuser
• 01/04/2025 3:21 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Wasn't that some kind of dating platform? ;)
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Minecraft/Discussion What Happens When you Hit an Iron Golem? (WRONG ANSWERS ONLY!)
ShelLuser
• 01/02/2025 3:40 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

You will never have to buy an airplane ticket ever again! ;)
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Help/JavaEdition Need help with custom drops
ShelLuser
• 12/20/2024 3:10 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Instead of using a commandblock you should consider using a datapack instead. Of course this does depend on what exactly it is you're trying to do.

But anyway... (random) drops are set up using so called loot tables. Which can be customized and created... using a datapack. However, applying such a loot table is indeed something you can do using a command block or a function. When working on chests and what not you're looking for the LootTable, but when messing around with entities then this is the DeathLootTable.

Changing these is easily done using the /data command. Let's say we want to prevent a cow from dropping items:

• /summon minecraft:cow ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:true, Tags:["m00"]}
• /data merge entity @e[​tag=m00,limit=1] {DeathLootTable:""}
Try to kill the cow, you'll notice that it no longer drops any raw meat and/or leather. In fact: it doesn't drop anything at all anymore, that's because we changed its loot table from default to nothing at all. So how about we make the cow "posessed" and let it drop the same loot as a witch?

If you check the Minecraft client archive you'll find: "data\minecraft\loot_tables\entities\witch.json" which is the loot table for... the witch (duh!). So why not apply that to the above cow? =>

• /data merge entity @e[​tag=m00,limit=1] {DeathLootTable:"minecraft:entities/witch"}
Now try killing the cow again, and... what do you know... no more meat but other weird stuff ;)

Nothing too hard, right?
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Help/JavaEdition how to make class files open source
ShelLuser
• 12/15/2024 6:19 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

You don't.

What you could try is using a so called Java de-compiler but the result you'll get from those will heavily vary.
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Help/JavaEdition Double Toggle Light Switch
ShelLuser
• 12/15/2024 6:07 am
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

This is easily possible. You're looking for a so called "latch": this is a circuit that can hold its current state, and also switch between on and off. There are various versions of such a circuit, but this is an example which never failed me:



As you can see, it's quite simple: 2 sticky pistons which are 2 blocks apart and share a redstone block between them; this is the powersource which gets toggled. Then 2 blocks on top with a redstone torch on each side, as well as 2 redstone dust on top of that. Once you press the button both pistons get de-powered and powered, roughly at the same time, but only one can actually move. Thus resulting in the redstone block getting moved back and forth.
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Minecraft/Discussion If you don't like recent updates, read this
ShelLuser
• 12/08/2024 5:31 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

Agreed.

I mean, the current Minecraft version is 1.21.4 (since a few days) and yet my gf & me are still very happily playing 1.20.1 for this whole year and we have no intention of upgrading any time soon. Instead we plan on resetting our world next year to start over, but this time with all mods active from the getgo (we added a few during our game, which means that you need to hop into new chunks to find any new worldgen features).
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Minecraft/Discussion Minecraft lawsuit, how delusional can people get?
ShelLuser
• 12/07/2024 6:23 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

I never claimed he was selling it.

But now that I'm paying more attention to the video.. I noticed that the Tuber is lying from the very getgo => the original video literlly states: "I am suing Mojang". Fun fact: he's not, he's just trying to raise money, assumingly to fund the proceedings .. on a platform which won't hold you accountable if you run off with the money.

Why wasn't he honest about this from the start?

... maybe because he assumed most players wouldn't look past the "evil corporations" dogma?

The more I look into this, the most shady things start to look; the story just doesn't add up.
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Minecraft/Discussion Minecraft lawsuit, how delusional can people get?
ShelLuser
• 12/07/2024 4:56 pm
He/Him • Level 61 : High Grandmaster Senpai

In hindsight * I agree that I may have been a bit too harsh in my wording. Then again, the original video doesn't share much love either not to mention... the Tuber is a bit of a hypocrite because his original video clearly states: "which I am suing for breaking the law". Fun fact: he's not suing, he's raising funds trying to sue.

I realize that for most people this is but a detail (maybe insignificant?), but when it comes to honesty.. details matter. A lot. And this Tuber obviously isn't honest from the getgo. He is trying to sue yet presents it as if it were a given fact.

Not to mention... "anyone can have everything, even if it wasn't part of the original game", that too is a blantant lie.

I mean.. he wants to hold Mojang accountable to their policies yet that works both ways. Laws (usually) are (should be) absolute. Ergo: it doesn't matter who you are, the law applies and is above you. You can't apply them as you deem fit.

And Mojang is very clear when it comes to modding. Heck, even the EU's rulings make a clear distinguish between an original work and modded additions. And yet... no mention nor recognition of this fact. Laws work both ways.

Not to mention that, once again, consumer laws only go so far. If you buy a door at a convenience store, then change the whole thing you just cannot expect any warranty from that moment on. Things don't work that way. Even the EU consumer laws acknowledge this.

So why would that be any different for digital goods?

There's a fun fact here, but ... I posted enough :)
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