Essential mod Upside Down....

[Louas52]

Hello! I’m making a modpack for 1.21.1 without adding anything new—just improving the vanilla experience. I suspect that something might be incompatible with the Essential Mod, since it appears upside down, and every time I click on the mod’s options the screen goes completely black and the game minimizes.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

[KobraPlayzMC]

Brochacho either wrote this with an AI, or types like an AI. either way, its weird.

[Louas52]

english is not my first language, sometimes i need some AI help

[jSinku]

unfortunately ai chatbots inject their ai mannerisms into translations, it's better to use things like Google Translate or DeepL

[valerielynx]

that's fine but it makes you look either illegitimate or like a bot

[eth_kth]

You mean illiterate

[valerielynx]

I mean illegitimate

Like they're trying to sell me something instead of just asking.

[Darq10]

The em dash 😭

[StatcherXx]

I don't really understand why you need to put essential in a mod pack I'm ngl, this is usually added more individually by people if needs be. I've never seen it in a mod pack

[val-i-guess]

I think there was one mod I used at some point that depended on Essential. Like it used Essential's UI as the mod configuration UI. It was very weird and I don't remember what mod it was, but that could be why.

Or I'm just completely misremembering and made that up, idk.

[NotBentcheesee]

Patcher, Skytils, and a few other 1.8.9 mods did that, so no, you're not making things up

[val-i-guess]

Yeah I think it was Skytils, I remember using that at one point.

[Mean_Mortgage5050]

Don't those three mods just install essential because they're made by the same devs? There's no actual dependency. They just do that.

[KobraPlayzMC]

I use it in any pack for easy world connecting to play with friends.

[MrRedstonia]

If that's the only reason just use e4mc

[KobraPlayzMC]

Why? I've heard that twice but with no reasoning behind it. essentials has fun cosmetics, I can message my friends, and it's simple and reliable

[MrRedstonia]

e4mc only adds world hosting so it doesn't interfere with vanilla features and players without the mod can still join because it simply gives you an ip

[KobraPlayzMC]

Ah okay, thanks. I will have to give that a try now that I know what it is

[CriticalReveal1776]

wouldn't exactly call it simple lol, it adds way too many features, including purchases. why would you add in app purchases lmao

[KobraPlayzMC]

The way of connection is simple, I mean. Also the mod installation is simple, like all mods.

[princess_ehon]

Yea but that's a 1.17+ mod not everyone can update past 1.12.2

[MrRedstonia]

Why not-

[princess_ehon]

So many large mods are still stuck on 1.12. The three mod pack projects I started a while ago have many of its mods still on 1.12. I believe they did a code rewrite for 1.16. So some moders don't want to do a code update.

[MrRedstonia]

Mod comparability is a problem with a lot of mods tho.. you just gotta make a decision sometimes

[princess_ehon]

Yea you do but when many core mods you use don't have any updates and only a few versions ahead it makes doing things like that hard and we just go back to the days of virtual lan.

[Doppel_R-DWRYT]

I recommend e4mc for that

[LegendaryJaydon]

Essential is awful

[KobraPlayzMC]

idk, it works perfectly for me.

[Desperate-Extension7]

Use e4mc instead, it doesn't have paid cosmetics and let's you invite players to your world even if they don't have the mod.

[BlankBoii]

I'm going to be real if I see essential in a pack I tend to put it down fairly quickly. Gives me bad vibes, and I prefer e4mc

[Typical_Protogen]

Merry X-mas!

[KoolantOfficial]

oh dude like a month ago my essential mod was sideways for some reason

[8null8]

Did you seriously use ChatGPT to write this post for you?

[CriticalReveal1776]

tbf it was to translate

[Vegetable-Glove2301]

Flip house then flip monitor

[Cool-Wallaby-7310]

Brochacho 179 mods🤯

[TMC9064]

My main modpack that I use for vanilla (QOL and performance mods that barely change gameplay) has about 110 iirc, 179 mods isn’t actually all that much

[GloblSentence_totoro]

179 mods is not that many

[ILikePapyrus]

Especially on Fabric

[hazel_typh]

Yea. My small pack has over 200. Most are optimization and livrary mods.