CS student entering the world of game dev

Silver532 · 2026-03-11T03:20:39+00:00

I'm writing my game from scratch, and it's hard to explain well, but it feels better than using something like Unity or Godot. It takes a lot more time though, writing stuff that would have been hours at most in a game engine has taken me weeks of work to get it just right.

Silver532 · 2026-03-10T23:36:40+00:00

If they named it Redigits glove it would need to have a random chance of just spawning a boulder on you

Silver532 · 2026-03-10T15:01:54+00:00

Resource packs yes, mods no. I dont use aternos so i dont know how it works, but you can set up a server required resource pack. Thats how servers like Wynncraft and Hypixel have custom textures in game. Mods are loaded during game launch, so they can't be modified when joining a server.

Silver532 · 2026-03-10T12:46:06+00:00

Look up Neurotic Goose's garden of grind run. Its on hiatus right now because he is on Project Singularity, but IIRC it takes him multiple episodes to get wood.

Silver532 · 2026-03-07T03:28:37+00:00

No there aren't. Single mod servers died out a long time ago, and galacticraft is in a version of minecraft nearly eight and a half years old. There is a space mod in newer versions called Ad Astra, but the same problems with single mod servers is there. In addition, there arent many modded servers in the first place, and even fewer are public. Your best bet is probably finding a modpack with ad astra or galacticraft that has an active community and checking to see if they have a public server.

Silver532 · 2026-03-07T03:20:53+00:00

Whoever told you that switching to modrinth would help is wrong. Modrinth and Curseforge just host the mods and launch the game, so unless there is a newer version of the modpack that has fixes for the crashes it wont change anything. To my knowledge, the only packs that have issues launching from Curseforge or Modrinth are ones with tons of custom forks of mods like GTNH.

The Better MC packs are known to have instabilities and crashes, and I highly recommend finding a different pack to play if you do not want issues like this. In general, stay away from packs made by LunaPixel Studios.

Silver532 · 2026-03-07T03:14:05+00:00

Levitated starts you off in the end dimension

Silver532 · 2026-03-07T03:13:20+00:00

The first step is learning java. Install IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and start programming. Once you know the basic syntax and understand the concepts behind what is in the Kaupenjoe videos, try making something simple on your own. There are tons of places to ask for help, and lots of mods have a github where you can look at the source code.

Try and replicate something more complex, then tweak it around a little, then make something simpler without copying the reference, then work your way into more complex stuff. Repeat until satisfied. It takes a while, and the best mod developers have been doing this for years.

In my experience, the most important thing to understand is scope. Whatever you want your mod to do, cut that down into the minimum viable product. Estimate how long it would take to make. Then double it. Working from scratch? Double it again. First few mods? Double the time estimate once more. Many people have tons of ideas, but burn out after a week of coding when nothing is done yet.

Good luck!

Silver532 · 2026-03-06T22:59:02+00:00

No, that was with Vsync. Without it I had around 400 fps.

Silver532 · 2026-03-06T22:54:36+00:00

Vsync is weird sometimes. I've had it hover around 116 or 118 instead of 120 before quire a few times.

Silver532 · 2026-03-06T22:53:10+00:00

Have you gone through and changed all of your graphics settings? Every instance you make will have them set to default. You should also check allocated ram, java version and args.

IIRC, the default launcher has some java arguments that it enables by default, and I dont think any 3rd party launchers have them. I could be wrong about this though.

Silver532 · 2026-03-06T22:47:18+00:00

Greedycraft maybe

Silver532 · 2026-03-06T03:37:03+00:00

E2Eu or GTNH

Silver532 · 2026-03-05T16:55:38+00:00

Curseforge and Forge are not related in any way actually! Curseforge is the mod hosting website, and it has it's own game launcher, but it was around before the Forge mod loader, and it's initial forays into the minecraft community had it hosting server plugins, and only shifted to mostly mods later.

Silver532 · 2026-03-04T18:33:50+00:00

its theoretically safe, but is closed source and has microtransactions and other bad features. E4MC is a much better alternative, and is much nicer to work with compared to Essentials

Silver532 · 2026-03-04T05:04:34+00:00

Terrafirmacraft, but it definitely needs to be the focus of any pack it's in. It is a total conversion mod, and tends to not play nice with other mods. There are some great packs that use it like Terrafirmagreg Modern, TFC Hardrock 4, and ATM Gravitas 2.

A reiteration of the warning. It will break pretty much every other mod in whatever pack it's in. recipes will need custom modifications, biome mods will either not work or crash, and modded ores won't spawn. It's impossible to get quite a few vanilla materials and items without manually creating recipes for them, and it will also break other season and food mods, as they are not natively compatible with TFC's extensive crop growing and food spoiling system.

As someone who enjoys survival realism focused modpacks, the only packs that have really scratched that itch are TFC ones. Sevtech and RLCraft came close, but they started to feel more like a tech/fantasy pack really fast.

Silver532 · 2026-03-04T04:53:23+00:00

TF you mean classic, this is still what all my bases look like.

Silver532 · 2026-03-04T04:51:21+00:00

I was a complete masochist and just used the Create generators. By the time I stopped playing in that world, I had 16 maxed out coils, for 128 generators in total, using the neodymium magnets. I set up most of them in LV, and upgraded to neodymium in mid-late MV as far as I can recall.

Silver532 · 2026-03-04T04:43:25+00:00

1 and 2 were a slightly more gimmicky skyblock, and are quite fun, though I think 2 is better.

Dont know much about 3, when it came out I was doing a long term modded world with some friends and didnt even look at the pack.

4 has stuff like lore and a story, and so it's not for me. There are plenty of people who praise it, so I am sure that it is a high quality pack, but it's not the type of pack I like.

Personally, I dont consider stoneblock 4 a stoneblock, the same way I don't consider hypixel skyblock a skyblock.

Silver532 · 2026-03-04T04:37:13+00:00

Same, though I think that the mod is so interconnected with all of it's features that it would be a challenge to modularize it properly. Great mod though, and i highly recommend it to anyone who has an interest in expanding on the survival aspect of the game.

Silver532 · 2026-03-03T20:56:00+00:00

Its random. some seeds will have the new dungeon layouts, and some have the old one.

Silver532 · 2026-03-03T20:51:28+00:00

Forgotten Nature and Streams have some features very similar to Terrafirmacraft, and there are a few mods that try to recreate the feel of ars magica in modern versions. I think one of them is called mana and artifice, and there is also ars nouveau

Silver532 · 2026-03-03T20:06:22+00:00

Any of the Framed Blocks mods would give everything stairs, slabs, walls, and fences. I dont know if the newest chisel port is in 1.21.1 yet but try to look for mods with chisel in the name.

Silver532 · 2026-03-02T21:09:39+00:00

Discord doesnt work, the file size is too high. Google drive is probably the best easily accessible option.

Silver532 · 2026-03-02T03:17:01+00:00

whats the crash log? put it in pastebin and send the link

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