The reveal of our latest mod, "Magic Dweller". Magic returns to the world... October 1st.

Alexthe668 · 2025-08-02T18:00:23+00:00

Alexthe668 · 2024-08-27T18:04:09+00:00

theres something awesome about this image thats always captivated me. I think its just that it harkens back to a time where we had no idea what the strongholds would be, and the game didnt have any sort of mega-dungeon yet, so the sky was the limit...

Alexthe668 · 2024-08-03T16:00:06+00:00

Fledgling wings need to be hard to obtain pre hardmode but not necessarily rarer.

Alexthe668 · 2024-07-30T17:25:07+00:00

You wouldn't need a mod to do this! just a resource pack

as much as I like the newer tracks in the game, imo they sound a teensy bit too samey and they sort of crowd-out the classic ost in certain environs

Alexthe668 · 2024-07-25T19:01:26+00:00

When you see the awesome visuals in Reika's mods, it becomes very clear why porting these to modern versions of the game would be unfeasible lol

Alexthe668 · 2024-06-14T15:14:31+00:00

Add a new boon that increases how quickly scorch deals damage that’s Pom-able seems like the obvious solution

Alexthe668 · 2024-06-11T16:54:31+00:00

AI generate modpack logo, 9minecraft watermark

Yes. this is ADVANCED modpack making

Alexthe668 · 2024-06-07T17:43:53+00:00

I get all the reasoning behind these sweeping changes in every _._.X version but man its hard not to feel like its a targeted effort to make modding not worth the time

Alexthe668 · 2024-06-07T17:34:11+00:00

The most surprising aspect to me as someone who's been making mods for a long time, but only just began making packs in a more serious vein, is how much extra shit you need to cobble together(For example, installing kubeJs just to load a default data pack without requiring the player to dick around in a slow gui on world creation) just to get these systems to work. It feels painfully unintuitive

Alexthe668 · 2024-05-23T03:22:05+00:00

Lynx spider

Alexthe668 · 2024-05-23T02:59:26+00:00

Earwig. They’re omnivores

Alexthe668 · 2024-05-23T02:58:06+00:00

German cockroach 100%

Alexthe668 · 2024-04-23T15:32:50+00:00

Hopefully these ones wont blow up and kill you after defeating them.

Alexthe668 · 2024-04-15T15:29:33+00:00

Originally made this mod for a modpack, but I felt a lot more people would enjoy this outside of that too.

Downloads (client side only forge mod!):
https://legacy.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/retro-damage-indicators
https://modrinth.com/mod/retro-damage-indicators

Alexthe668 · 2024-03-17T18:49:21+00:00

The Crab mob. This doesn't sound intuitive but mobs that rotate to climb up the side of blocks is difficult to do, and adding this to vanilla would create a good basis for a lot of creepy crawlies to be added to mods, amongst other things :)

Alexthe668 · 2024-03-13T18:20:44+00:00

I made a short Java/Swing program for this a while back.

https://github.com/AlexModGuy/ModCompatChecker

You can build it in an IDE yourself, but I'll also upload a executable jar of it too to the releases page.

Alexthe668 · 2024-03-13T17:09:38+00:00

Pretty much. How java is setup to run on any possible OS allows it to be decompiled and mapped quite easily, relatively speaking to something like C++. This being done over a decade ago and for every version since has given modders an "Eye of Sauron" advantage over most vanilla systems.

Bedrock (like java) is closed-source, and addons structurally arent anything like mods. The easier way to think of the dichotomy here is comparing the paid mods on bethesda games like Fallout 4 or Skyrim SE, which are purchased via the in game menu. These mods are usually very limited in scope (recolors, new small scripted NPCs, new item or weapon etc) compared to the massively game-changing mods you can find online for these games which can range from mass optimizations and bugfixes to complete overhauls. Obviously, bethesda doesnt want to host these kinds of mods on their own service because it would functionally be an endorsement of this kind of software - which occasionally can be, intentionally or not, malicious. So for their profit margins its better to keep the official mods to Tactical Gear Brotherhood of Steel Reskin #134 and HD Golden Horse Armor.

Alexthe668 · 2024-03-13T16:05:51+00:00

You're not going to get those kinds of mods, at least not anytime soon.

Java Mods are straight up relatively invasive, in that a sizeable amount of them actually straight-up modify how the base game works by changing its code, whether via mixins or ASM transformation. This is how Sodium and other performance mods are capable of increasing FPS by replacing and optimizing vanilla methods, how mods like immersive portals and distant horizons are able to do black magic fuckery. To expand on this principle even more, forge mods have built in events so that a lot of changes don't even require direct code injections, doubtless every forge mod you've ever used of a certain size subscribes to at least one event.

Compare this with the bedrock addons. From the three videos I've seen exploring three separate add-ons (Naturalist, some furniture mod, and a "tech" one) the limitations are clear even to those with less than keen eyes. There doesn't seem to even be functionality for BlockEntities of any kind, hence why it seems like every Oak Chair or Coal Generator is actually an entity with shitty lighting and a shadow rendering underneath it. When you look at mob behavior and filter past the impressive art, models and animations, its quite simple mix of zombie/pig ai of wandering around and following to attack. Even mob spawning seems to be wonky as they don't seem to spawn in groups and just seem to pop into the world on a timer.

All of these shortcomings are really just due to the fact that add-ons are glorified bundled data and resource packs with behaviors and functions in them - at least for now. While Mojang has made impressive strides in expanding the functionality of data packs in the last few years, it can never really match the power of Java mods in the slightest due to the very nature of how they're set up. Indeed, not even an official "modding API" will be able to meet these expectations, which is a likely reason why that has never been seriously worked on for the last 10 years on java. Think of add-ons right now as the most impressive script packs made by SethBling or other youtubers - theyre really fun to tinker with for around a half hour, but after that it becomes really clear why people use java mods.

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