This felt so far from the basic Minecraft we all knew and loved, but that was the exciting part. My friend had gotten a head start and built a huge, green, unfamiliar portal and a large stone forge at our spawn. We are a lazy group of degenerates, I know.) Image: Mojang/FTB Team via Polygon (I understand that a group of adults in their mid-20s should be able to chuck in a few bucks to pay for a dedicated Minecraft server, but for some reason we all just refused to until now.

After testing the waters with server hosting, we decided to suck it up and do the adult thing: buy a dedicated Minecraft server. Unfortunately Feed the Beast Revelation was pretty hard on some of our PCs, so we had to go with a smaller and older pack, Infinity Evolved. Revelation is a huge, unthemed modpack that hosts a whole ton of mods. There’s a “Skyfactory” modpack for high tech and automation, an “Academy” modpack for beginners, and things like that. After watching a pack of streamers play with the Feed the Beast Revelation modpack, we wanted in.įeed the Beast modpacks are bundles of mods, typically with a theme. We’ve never played with heavy mods before, outside of Pixelmon, just due to the complexity involved with setting up and self-hosting a modded server. We normally pester somebody to host a server on their computer and play basic, vanilla Minecraft for about a week before we get bored. My friends and I get into Minecraft several times a year. I have seen the heavenly light and it is Minecraft with over a hundred mods packed into it.

Tech world 2 mod list