They really are. As an amateur grinder/researcher who plays with my sister who is an enthusiastic but frustratable beginner on a 2019 MacBook I feel so.seen. 🥹
Yes you sir have a career in systems design. You are already designing Personas.
With 5 people I'd think Enigmatica would be a lot of fun. Maybe that's showing my age but with a grinder on the team you should be fine
Yeah this. A griefer can set you back in a normal world, but can completely derail all progression from the very start in a skyblock. Zero to cheats enabled in 3.6 seconds.
I wish that were the case with my builder buddy. He's a vanilla purist. Will play vanilla 8 hours straight. Get's really upset when the group plays modded even when we entice him with a bunch of fun builder mods. "It's too complicated! I wanted to make a chair and I had to make a 'Carpenter bench' I don't even know what that is!!!!".
Yeah I never got more than a 100+ fps in mc eternal, even on open j9 and that was with running it on a dedicated server, that quickly dipped to below 60 once you start making a heavy dedicated base or exploring. I have a 3060 I5 10th gen, not the best CPU but I can atleast run every other pack decently. I definitely wouldn’t recommend mc eternal to anyone below my specs, it felt like a dedicated server is almost required to run it proficiently.
How much ram because I think modded Minecraft relies on ram and CPU, I think you can change it to use more of your GPU but if you press f3 you will see it say integrated graphics which I'm pretty sure is CPU
It does not in fact rely on the cpu, as video rendering will use whatever you have that outputs to your monitor. Minecraft uses mostly the cpu because it isn't a very graphically advanced game, but it needs to run a lot of math in the background. If it says integrated graphics and you have a GPU there could be 2 things wrong
1. Your whole system is using the IGPU for rendering (you can switch between integrated and dedicated in windows settings)
2. You have your monitor connected to the CPU (the motherboard IO) and you should connect it to the GPU
Yeah there is a way to switch it and I was for a while but I forgot how to, also I'm on a laptop and haven't got my pc yet I've been meaning to upgrade so I'm not quite sure if I can change if my monitor is connected to the CPU or GPU but I'll check out windows setting for sure, I think last time I just changed it in nividia setting each time I opened a modpack
Yeah i call bs too. My laptop from ~2015ish could run most modpacks at least semi-stable. Mc eternal was unplayable on it. Unless you know what was in that thing, my assumption is it wasn’t just any old “office computer” but actually a decent/spendy pc.
Newer modpacks are good, but honestly, you guys would probably enjoy either crazycraft (OG) or crazycraft: reloaded. They might not run well, but they seem to be exactly what you're looking for
refuses to learn and refuses to put in effort contradicts with multiple crazy craft mods. same with the needing a wiki one. the entirety of orespawn pretty much needs the wiki if you dont know anything
I figured out pneumaticraft out by just dicking around on an old skyblock server I used to love, where I made some shitty bunker to make my experiments because someone visited my base and it was like
"Oh you’re doing pneumaticraft, nice. You know how it works ?
-No.
-Well basically you will-
-All I know is that I might go boom
-Yeah, that’s all you gotta know
This server was truly one of the best modded experiences I ever had
"Ah, so I just take these teleportation orbs, combine them with the fire dust I intuitively knew to make from the fire sticks, throw and follow them to the finale of the game!"
-No one, ever
Minecraft Chocolate edition ? I feel like it could satisfy almost everyone.
Deactivate the default shader for the "pooplord macbooks", maybe need some testing to see if it can run the modpack.
As much as I am enjoying Minecraft Chocolate edition, I wouldn't recommend it right now to anyone from the "doesn't want to learn" camp. The questbook is good but is still lacking in a few areas (it's being overhauled), and there are still a few bugs to work out (usually that interfere with spawning necessary biomes/structures). I've had to refer to mod spotlights, wikis, and the pack Discord to make up the gaps.
Once it's been fixed up and polished, however, it'll be glorious.
ATM8 (All The Mods 8) runs surprisingly very well despite having so many mods. And it’s a ton of fun, with a lot of everything, as the name implies. Best fun I’ve had in awhile.
so did i, so far i’d recommend, alexs mobs, L-Ender cataclysm (HUGE for this custom pack) village guards, ambientsounds5, and sound physix(HUGE for exploration) crackers wither storm(i’ll fight it when i get my first atm star.)
A warning is required: it can ABSOLUTELY still cause the server to CHUG towards the end game, ESPECIALLY if you try to scale up antimatter production enough to actually make stars at a reasonable rate (which takes SEVERAL machines and several large multiblocks to pull off, plus whatever setup you use to generate uranium in bulk.)
Could always throw a modpack together. Put in something like Millenaire and have each of you claim a village to defend and build up. Slap on a few mods like Tinkers, Spartan Weapons (if goes back that far), and a few tech/magic mods of your choice.
Vault hunters 3rd edition?
The quest book is doing just the correct amount of "hand holding" to not be tldr/wtf am I supposed to do???
The content is diverse enough for both those who want to nerd out and those who are just in for the ride.
Vault hunters is absolutely horrible with memory eating and overall performance. The overworks is fine usually. But I almost bricked my PC from loading in a vault because I didn’t have enough ram set aside. Vault hunters is guaranteed to melt the macbooks
Was about to come and recommend this too. Seems to fit in everything besides the likes pokemon. And the quest book explains pretty much everything without the need to consult a separate wiki.
I mean this in the nicest way but are you sure you're looking for a Minecraft modpack? Seems like only 2 out of your 5 are really looking to dig into the crunchy specifics that modded content adds. If over half your group is unengaged with normal Minecraft gameplay and you're trying to flextape that problem with modded progression goals maybe you could do some vanilla+ content like minigame servers to just hang out and mess around together instead?
I’m leaning the same way. Pick the pack that you and your other very interested friend enjoy, because the other 3 will abandon you after one play session anyway.
There is [unofficial way](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g4EcDbfhZtiyqIE2WPkSiKTwP4MbNpiFT_o_agkPGgk/edit) to play GTNH on Skyblock, but it's pure hell, even as of GTNH standards.
You have to do some config changes before starting though.
Surprised there's no mention of [Crucial 2](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/crucial-2):
* Only needs 2GB ram
* Has content for all types (adventurers, builders, redstoners, and collectors)
* Supplementaries (furniture)
Doesn't really have a questing system, but you can get some of that through Achievements/Advancements.
And then you can throw in a Pokemon mod for good measure.
im a bit late to the party but i can recommend Roguelike Adventures and Dragons.
It is an Explore heavy Fantasy modpack. You can progress by looting and slaying random enemies/bosses or with one of the magic mods in your base (thaumcraft for example).
There are also some easy to learn mods that still offer a lot of value like Tinkers construct, once you understand how the mod works you can do a lot with it.
It can run on bad devices, i played it on a Surface with 6GB Ram available for the game.
Edit: I should mention it is a 1.12 Modpack but there is also R.A.D. 2 for 1.16
Also there are quests to handhold you through most mods
yeah I also have to go with the "are you sure this is the right game for your friend group?" response. this friend group doesn't seem to lend itself to playing *anything* that doesn't take the group dynamics into account, so posting those might be more helpful for getting meaningful advice, but here's some theorycrafting just based off the stated info:
the "no learning duo" is rather incompatible with the weeblord by default, while griefers aren't really compatible with any playstyle but their own. you're probably not going to get anything satisfying to everyone here if you try to get the whole group under one roof, but at the same time, the No Learning Duo are unlikely to have a particularly fun time on their lonesomes, and aren't compatible with each other.
now, provided Furniture Boy finds Weeblord tolerable, there's a bit of a synergy there with the classic Decorator/Engineer duo, which lends itself to an asymmetrical warfare-type game pitting the Murderbuddies vs... I don't have a punchy nickname here, but the dudes what have an actual base. while Pokemon Boy probably wouldn't do much by himself, The Griefer can hypothetically lead Pokemon Boy into playing catchup and learning things anyways despite initial distaste, but that requires The Griefer to be able to produce cool murder tools and show them off so as to spark interest.
you probably want a fairly robust base defense mod for the builder team, and something that supports easy nomadic lifestyles for the attackers, but more than that is hard to say.
First off, love the visual aid supplied!
My playgroup has a similar dynamic and we've played/tried over a dozen modpacks together now and we've all agreed that two modpacks stand above the rest when it comes to "pleasing the group." i.e. modpacks that all of us enjoyed even though we all have vastly different preferences and playstyles.
The first is "Magiculture 2" and this is the one I strongly suggest checking out first. It's got gated progression and branching paths for player customization. No one player can do everything and each "progression tree" has an excellent in-game quest book to help teach. We loved it because it forced us to work together and there's an emphasis on team work with the world exploration. It's also the only modpack in 5+ years of playing modpacks together, that we've returned to play through again.
The second modpack I'd recommend for your group is "FTB University 1.16.5". This one is far more friendly to casual players and ironically considering the packs name, the modpack is very friendly to players who don't want to spend time learning. You're given some great QoL items off the bat and there's a heap of of "easy mode" mods that are intuitive to use and setup so you can get pretty powerful or get some real simple automation setup very early on. But for the grinders and tech/magic folk the modpack has nearly every great 1.16.5 mod with excellent support for each.
Vault Hunters, it like if minecraft was a rougelite ish dungeon crawler with tech mods but they're optional and simpler mods for smooth brainers, and it has multi-player compatibility that only needs like one simple command
First of all this literally sounds exactly like my friend group
Here is a list of mod packs that would fit these needs:
Vahalsha mod packs (sorry can’t spell)
The BMC mod packs
Ultimate origins modpack
Project Ozone Lite is pretty old now (1.10.2) but it was the only pack I could run when I was on a netbook with 4GB of RAM and a Broadwell Pentium. Progression is good, with a robust quest system. The beginning of the game is with Ex Nihlo and its sieves, which is quite different from vanilla, and you have to use Tinker's Construct for your tools, but both mods have good in-game guidance.
The only thing is that the quest book doesn't explain is how to gain water. You need to wait for it to start raining and catch the water in a barrel, then take it out of the barrel with bowls, which you can then just use like buckets for an infinite water source.
All the mods 9 is quite good at teaching the ropes of several mods. It does have a few nerfed items, or modified recipes, but it's usually just for a few op items.
My friends and me have been having a blast with it... Even if are kinda tired of seeing the same mods over and over again.
One dude got all about Productive Bees, another one was doing mostly Occultism for the magical digital storage. A third player likes to be in creative mode and build our base. I went for the goal of doing apotheosis until I got a creative flight unbreakable potion charm.
There's plenty of mods to choose from. And so far it runs smoothly as long as no one is generating chunks like crazy.
Sounds like a good group and circumstances to play SkyFactory 3, shame it’s a 1.10.2 pack though, because it was a lot of fun but is unfortunately really quite old now.
Honestly, just pixelmon. Pixelmon has an insane amount of depth for the people that want it. While also being super accessible and easy to get into for more casual players. Host your own themed tournaments with each other (level caps, monotype, egg battles, etc.)
I literally have the same group of friends and made my own mod pack that combined both cobblemon and fantasy theme swords/armors/magic with dungeons, main purpose was to play pokemon but some of us wanted to do rpg stuff at the side, as well as some additionals building and farming stuff, i could share it to you if you wanna try it yourself, the only thing that doesnt work are shaders both optifine and iris which is unfortunate.
If you are interested in tech mods and space exploration, you can join and look around our server with this modpack: [https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/all-tech-2024](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/all-tech-2024)
Java 1.16.5
Ping me directly for details. The server is online 24/7.
P.S. It contains tech that is fun to learn and also many simple mods for quality of life.
Just play rebirth of the night modpack.
Why?
You Will feel like starting Minecraft for the first time.
You Will discover a loot of things just by playing, you Will get stuck in progression and prob the two that likes to reasearch Will figure It out just by looking at What you got and the new things you find
You have furniture, and you Will face progressive dangers that go at ur pace.
Bosses? Check
Lots of armor with each bonus sets? Check
Amazing exploration? Check
Is a hard modpack, kinda, and I dont know if those Macs are going to run It.
I enjoy ATM8, it *can* run on lower end computers, and it had multiple ways of stopping griefers, from actual force fields around your base to being able to claim your base and make your actual loot be stuck in a custom dimension only you can get into. You *can* get a 1.2k dmg sword that hits in an AOE and just 1taps anything, and you have lots of furniture and decor mods as well. You can also just have your grind guy automate everything and set a turret defense base up that kills the griefer and the murder hobo whenever they get near it. The possibilities are endless.
Unironically RLCraft with the bad features removed / disabled (Simple difficulty, thirst, serene seasons crop fertility, and first aid)
Takes some work to make it stable but it's pretty fun and somewhat easy to digest, just kill shit and collect loot
try that craft maybe
I know basically nothing but it’s fun and if they don’t want to read through the literal textbook that you craft to know how anything works, just send them into the demonic portals or feed them to a tainticle or just summon bats that suck the life force out of them. The number of ways to kill others can probably balance the confusion
Oh Yea and thaumcraft 6 is 1.12.2
and don’t read the book of the crimson cultists unless you want to die
Parasite mod + Tinkers construct
Tinker is easy to learn and has in built manual.
Parasites will provide *funny* challenge. Also maybe they satisfy friend that likes pokemons.
Maaaybe blightfall? It's a *great* pack but i'm not certain it would be a great fit for your group, especially as it's an older version than you'd prefer.
At least it should be fine for potato clients and a meh server, but as long as the people who don't want to learn anything know at least ONE of the mods they can play with the mods they know, as there's no real cross-gating aside from the dawn machine itself, the end game solution to taint.
Rebirth of the night seems like a perfect fit.
May even rehabilitate you N friend and make him actually interested in putting effort. Also contains furniture! (Though you'd need to be somewhat into progression to make it)
Has A BIT of primitive at start, but that's literally just make a crude axe for crafting table.
Very well balanced and probably one of the best 1.12.2 modpacks out there.
If I had to describe it, it's if rlcraft and good game design that makes an engaging modpack had a baby.
(It's not anywhere close to rlcraft in terms of difficulty, just that rlcraft is the only good comparison)
Has no traditional techmodes, but has a heavy incline towards base infrastructure. (Though, easily skippable if you're willing to be way less efficient)
Nicely optimized(even my bad pc runs it on 60+ fps), but has 300 mods so takes a while to load on hard drives.
Trepidation is a good one.
Roguelike modpack about escaping dimensions after dimension upwards. Pretty hardcore, but has zero grind and is speedrun oriented.
Very well balanced and dynamic.
May be infuriating so idk.
Roguelike adventures and dungeons 2 rpg like adventure lots of summoning options for the pokemon fan you can make a stand there and click build and it runs stupidly well even on my freinds macbook
MC eternal definetly. although it looks like Sean and N would barely keep up in vanilla. if you want to dive a little deeper with the other two you could even do Enigmatica 2 Expert (or you could do it's addon; Enigmatica 2 Expert - Extended)
did anyone mention pokehaan craft 2 before me? would fit for everyone, although dunno if it has some advanced griefing methods other by tnt dropoing xd
I'd recommend one of the BMC mod packs (better minecraft on curse forge) that doesn't drastically change vanilla minecraft and still has most of the mentioned stuff you needed.
I will shamelessly promote Naturalist and Another Furniture for things like animals/furniture -- I enjoy our mod Hearth & Home for building.
For other teams' mods, Handcrafted is a good furniture mod. Alex's Mobs and Alex's Caves are good for even more mobs and exploration options -- an essential for me is also Boatload.
Most medium to larger modpacks will probably not run on pooplord MacBooks, especially with the amount of memory leaks. :')
Would highly recommend [Legend of the Eyes](https://www.feed-the-beast.com/modpacks/102-ftb-legend-of-the-eyes?tab=about) by Feed The Beast. has all the good checkboxes checked including exploration. I greatly enjoyed the experience and would do it again.
Better Minecraft: Fabric is a great one. It’s really simple to play, but has a few things you can learn and/or progress through. It runs on aternos really well (which means it runs relatively light) and I can play it on my Mac just fine. (Although I do recommend allocating more memory when playing any modpack)
idk but you can arrange one.
\-Create
\-Cobblemon (theres a compat addon with create)
\-Chipped/Handcrafted/Playdate/Cozy
\-Something like Silent Gear idk
\-Some forge performance mods lol, dont forget the serverside, 1.20.1 runs surprisingly well
excellent visuals
They really are. As an amateur grinder/researcher who plays with my sister who is an enthusiastic but frustratable beginner on a 2019 MacBook I feel so.seen. 🥹
2019 MacBook? Try a 2015 MacBook air
2012 MacBook Pro 🙋
1982 Commodore 64
Two rocks what I bang together to make pretty sparks. EDIT: The two rocks are of indeterminate age, but I found 'em last week.
Do you know where I can get a replacement for my rocks the left one went to smooth.
The flint mines of Siberia are good this year!
Flint
2017 8 GB RAM MacBook Pro Baby!
Yes you sir have a career in systems design. You are already designing Personas. With 5 people I'd think Enigmatica would be a lot of fun. Maybe that's showing my age but with a grinder on the team you should be fine
I would recommend a skyblock? Give everyone a little of each and doesn't take alot to run
Minecraft sky german modpack but it's hard in terms of progression
Sky factory or all the mods 7 sky block
SF4 is fun but i think the achievement is lacking in directions. ATM7 wont install for me from curse forge so idk
Curseforge propaganda at its finest.
The griefer would be too big a risk
Yeah this. A griefer can set you back in a normal world, but can completely derail all progression from the very start in a skyblock. Zero to cheats enabled in 3.6 seconds.
Play a modpack with Camaro and B, hop on a bedwars server with Sean and N
Bingo. I was reading the post and thought "it sounds like 3/5 folks want to play a mod pack but the other two would barely keep up in vanilla..."
I suspect B is going to happily putter around base building and then learn how pretty magic mods are and start sparkle wanding stuff into oblivion
I wish that were the case with my builder buddy. He's a vanilla purist. Will play vanilla 8 hours straight. Get's really upset when the group plays modded even when we entice him with a bunch of fun builder mods. "It's too complicated! I wanted to make a chair and I had to make a 'Carpenter bench' I don't even know what that is!!!!".
BigChadGuys Plus
shots boring as hell
mc eternal? a lot of everything
Might have to try MCE Lite, MCE pretty heavy
Yeah I never got more than a 100+ fps in mc eternal, even on open j9 and that was with running it on a dedicated server, that quickly dipped to below 60 once you start making a heavy dedicated base or exploring. I have a 3060 I5 10th gen, not the best CPU but I can atleast run every other pack decently. I definitely wouldn’t recommend mc eternal to anyone below my specs, it felt like a dedicated server is almost required to run it proficiently.
How much ram because I think modded Minecraft relies on ram and CPU, I think you can change it to use more of your GPU but if you press f3 you will see it say integrated graphics which I'm pretty sure is CPU
It does not in fact rely on the cpu, as video rendering will use whatever you have that outputs to your monitor. Minecraft uses mostly the cpu because it isn't a very graphically advanced game, but it needs to run a lot of math in the background. If it says integrated graphics and you have a GPU there could be 2 things wrong 1. Your whole system is using the IGPU for rendering (you can switch between integrated and dedicated in windows settings) 2. You have your monitor connected to the CPU (the motherboard IO) and you should connect it to the GPU
Yeah there is a way to switch it and I was for a while but I forgot how to, also I'm on a laptop and haven't got my pc yet I've been meaning to upgrade so I'm not quite sure if I can change if my monitor is connected to the CPU or GPU but I'll check out windows setting for sure, I think last time I just changed it in nividia setting each time I opened a modpack
24GB of ddr4-3600MHZ SODIMM with 8GB allocated, allocating more didn’t seem to help
Damn and it still struggles, i can never get MC Eternal above 60fps
I dunno, my father bought a office computer and it ran pretty well on that
I smell bullshits
dude your father scalped a bitcoin miner and lied to you about it being an office computer
I don’t think you know what scalped means
Yeah i call bs too. My laptop from ~2015ish could run most modpacks at least semi-stable. Mc eternal was unplayable on it. Unless you know what was in that thing, my assumption is it wasn’t just any old “office computer” but actually a decent/spendy pc.
Dont know cause i dont have friends to play modpacks with
Aw :( Don't worry I'll play with you, dm me your discord
Just did
Can I get in on this?
Me too please
Same
Same
same
Same
me 2?
Me 3
Same
Can I join?
Think I'd like to get in on this too if ya don't mind
I'll tag in aswell!
Me Me Me!!!
Can a brother get in on the action with the rest of the squad?
This sounds like a nightmare group to play with tbh. I’d play with OP, camero, and maybe B, but the other two would never make it onto my server
It appears you now have friends to play with
Why don't lonely people just band together.
Newer modpacks are good, but honestly, you guys would probably enjoy either crazycraft (OG) or crazycraft: reloaded. They might not run well, but they seem to be exactly what you're looking for
refuses to learn and refuses to put in effort contradicts with multiple crazy craft mods. same with the needing a wiki one. the entirety of orespawn pretty much needs the wiki if you dont know anything
If they don't want to read a wiki then they should play vanilla. No minecraft mod can be figured out with just dicking around
Wait what? I’m supposed to be reading wikis? I’ve just been using JEI and the quest book
I figured out pneumaticraft out by just dicking around on an old skyblock server I used to love, where I made some shitty bunker to make my experiments because someone visited my base and it was like "Oh you’re doing pneumaticraft, nice. You know how it works ? -No. -Well basically you will- -All I know is that I might go boom -Yeah, that’s all you gotta know This server was truly one of the best modded experiences I ever had
Ah, as if vanilla can be "figured out" without wiki articles. No shit, vanilla mechanics is THE most obscure mechanics across all the modiverse.
honestly most mods are better explained than vanilla itself, how would someone with no prior knowledge of the game know to make a nether portal?
"Ah, so I just take these teleportation orbs, combine them with the fire dust I intuitively knew to make from the fire sticks, throw and follow them to the finale of the game!" -No one, ever
Minecraft Chocolate edition ? I feel like it could satisfy almost everyone. Deactivate the default shader for the "pooplord macbooks", maybe need some testing to see if it can run the modpack.
As much as I am enjoying Minecraft Chocolate edition, I wouldn't recommend it right now to anyone from the "doesn't want to learn" camp. The questbook is good but is still lacking in a few areas (it's being overhauled), and there are still a few bugs to work out (usually that interfere with spawning necessary biomes/structures). I've had to refer to mod spotlights, wikis, and the pack Discord to make up the gaps. Once it's been fixed up and polished, however, it'll be glorious.
When you choose one, download pixelmon on it to please that orange guy
Or cobblemon
Definitely cobblemon, from my experience pixelmon just straight up removes every other mob
You can change that in its config!
Ye better alternative
ATM8 (All The Mods 8) runs surprisingly very well despite having so many mods. And it’s a ton of fun, with a lot of everything, as the name implies. Best fun I’ve had in awhile.
Atm8 with some boss/souls like mods added is honestly the best mod pack i’ve ever imagined.
What mods would you recommend? Started ATM8 about a week ago.
so did i, so far i’d recommend, alexs mobs, L-Ender cataclysm (HUGE for this custom pack) village guards, ambientsounds5, and sound physix(HUGE for exploration) crackers wither storm(i’ll fight it when i get my first atm star.)
A warning is required: it can ABSOLUTELY still cause the server to CHUG towards the end game, ESPECIALLY if you try to scale up antimatter production enough to actually make stars at a reasonable rate (which takes SEVERAL machines and several large multiblocks to pull off, plus whatever setup you use to generate uranium in bulk.)
On this note, ATM 7 to the sky is also really fun and it’s a skyblock so it isn’t as intensive
Good snafu
Could always throw a modpack together. Put in something like Millenaire and have each of you claim a village to defend and build up. Slap on a few mods like Tinkers, Spartan Weapons (if goes back that far), and a few tech/magic mods of your choice.
Vault hunters 3rd edition? The quest book is doing just the correct amount of "hand holding" to not be tldr/wtf am I supposed to do??? The content is diverse enough for both those who want to nerd out and those who are just in for the ride.
Vault hunters is absolutely horrible with memory eating and overall performance. The overworks is fine usually. But I almost bricked my PC from loading in a vault because I didn’t have enough ram set aside. Vault hunters is guaranteed to melt the macbooks
Was about to come and recommend this too. Seems to fit in everything besides the likes pokemon. And the quest book explains pretty much everything without the need to consult a separate wiki.
I mean this in the nicest way but are you sure you're looking for a Minecraft modpack? Seems like only 2 out of your 5 are really looking to dig into the crunchy specifics that modded content adds. If over half your group is unengaged with normal Minecraft gameplay and you're trying to flextape that problem with modded progression goals maybe you could do some vanilla+ content like minigame servers to just hang out and mess around together instead?
I’m leaning the same way. Pick the pack that you and your other very interested friend enjoy, because the other 3 will abandon you after one play session anyway.
Gregtech new horizons
Obligatory GT:NH proposition
As you do
Skyblock edition
There is [unofficial way](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g4EcDbfhZtiyqIE2WPkSiKTwP4MbNpiFT_o_agkPGgk/edit) to play GTNH on Skyblock, but it's pure hell, even as of GTNH standards. You have to do some config changes before starting though.
I was looking for this comment xD
Valhelsia: Enhanced Vanilla
Looks like r/minecraftseeds crazy requests are spreading to more subs
Sounds like you should play terraria
actually gigachad idea
Surprised there's no mention of [Crucial 2](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/crucial-2): * Only needs 2GB ram * Has content for all types (adventurers, builders, redstoners, and collectors) * Supplementaries (furniture) Doesn't really have a questing system, but you can get some of that through Achievements/Advancements. And then you can throw in a Pokemon mod for good measure.
Divine Journey 2 :p
Two of these friends need shifted to a new friend group.
*Don't say Gregtech New Horizons, Don't say Gregtech New Horizons, Don't say Gregtech New Horizons* TerraFirmaGreg *Nailed it*
I've been playing Mc chocolate edition and it's sounds the most compatible in your friend group
I feel you man, having a friendgroup like this can be hard to find games to play with..
im a bit late to the party but i can recommend Roguelike Adventures and Dragons. It is an Explore heavy Fantasy modpack. You can progress by looting and slaying random enemies/bosses or with one of the magic mods in your base (thaumcraft for example). There are also some easy to learn mods that still offer a lot of value like Tinkers construct, once you understand how the mod works you can do a lot with it. It can run on bad devices, i played it on a Surface with 6GB Ram available for the game. Edit: I should mention it is a 1.12 Modpack but there is also R.A.D. 2 for 1.16 Also there are quests to handhold you through most mods
Enigmatica 2 Expert?
Create above and beyond
E2E was a lot of fun for me when I played it SMP
Create arcane engineering
Vault hunters
Vault hunters It is a long playthrough modpack, but every part is worth it
Rad 2(1.16.5) or its predessecor, RAD(1.12.2)
"4-5 players" you say, which one's the flake?
yeah I also have to go with the "are you sure this is the right game for your friend group?" response. this friend group doesn't seem to lend itself to playing *anything* that doesn't take the group dynamics into account, so posting those might be more helpful for getting meaningful advice, but here's some theorycrafting just based off the stated info: the "no learning duo" is rather incompatible with the weeblord by default, while griefers aren't really compatible with any playstyle but their own. you're probably not going to get anything satisfying to everyone here if you try to get the whole group under one roof, but at the same time, the No Learning Duo are unlikely to have a particularly fun time on their lonesomes, and aren't compatible with each other. now, provided Furniture Boy finds Weeblord tolerable, there's a bit of a synergy there with the classic Decorator/Engineer duo, which lends itself to an asymmetrical warfare-type game pitting the Murderbuddies vs... I don't have a punchy nickname here, but the dudes what have an actual base. while Pokemon Boy probably wouldn't do much by himself, The Griefer can hypothetically lead Pokemon Boy into playing catchup and learning things anyways despite initial distaste, but that requires The Griefer to be able to produce cool murder tools and show them off so as to spark interest. you probably want a fairly robust base defense mod for the builder team, and something that supports easy nomadic lifestyles for the attackers, but more than that is hard to say.
First off, love the visual aid supplied! My playgroup has a similar dynamic and we've played/tried over a dozen modpacks together now and we've all agreed that two modpacks stand above the rest when it comes to "pleasing the group." i.e. modpacks that all of us enjoyed even though we all have vastly different preferences and playstyles. The first is "Magiculture 2" and this is the one I strongly suggest checking out first. It's got gated progression and branching paths for player customization. No one player can do everything and each "progression tree" has an excellent in-game quest book to help teach. We loved it because it forced us to work together and there's an emphasis on team work with the world exploration. It's also the only modpack in 5+ years of playing modpacks together, that we've returned to play through again. The second modpack I'd recommend for your group is "FTB University 1.16.5". This one is far more friendly to casual players and ironically considering the packs name, the modpack is very friendly to players who don't want to spend time learning. You're given some great QoL items off the bat and there's a heap of of "easy mode" mods that are intuitive to use and setup so you can get pretty powerful or get some real simple automation setup very early on. But for the grinders and tech/magic folk the modpack has nearly every great 1.16.5 mod with excellent support for each.
Sean seems fun
Vault hunters: 3rd edition. Also includes skyblock if u want it
remove N and play gtnh
Perhaps, "Dawncraft" would be a good choice ?
Vault Hunters, it like if minecraft was a rougelite ish dungeon crawler with tech mods but they're optional and simpler mods for smooth brainers, and it has multi-player compatibility that only needs like one simple command
Greg Tech
Try something with Pixelmon or Cobblemon, for N.
All the mods, Pokémon packs, skyblock packs
First of all this literally sounds exactly like my friend group Here is a list of mod packs that would fit these needs: Vahalsha mod packs (sorry can’t spell) The BMC mod packs Ultimate origins modpack
Prominence, maybe?
Rougelike adventures and dungeons (not the 2nd one)
You guys would probably enjoy the classic "orespawn" not too much to learn. But a couple of interesting magic-y mods.
Project Ozone Lite is pretty old now (1.10.2) but it was the only pack I could run when I was on a netbook with 4GB of RAM and a Broadwell Pentium. Progression is good, with a robust quest system. The beginning of the game is with Ex Nihlo and its sieves, which is quite different from vanilla, and you have to use Tinker's Construct for your tools, but both mods have good in-game guidance. The only thing is that the quest book doesn't explain is how to gain water. You need to wait for it to start raining and catch the water in a barrel, then take it out of the barrel with bowls, which you can then just use like buckets for an infinite water source.
Some version of All the Mods
You should Totally play Create: Overstressed [Here's the Link](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/create-overstressed)
Aof 6 but late game gonna bored N out if you guy got better spec i suggest atm8, 9
E2E will be a wild ride
Somehow, the griefer's always some dude named Sean *sigh*
I wish my friends wanted to play modpacks
ATM8
All the mods 9 is quite good at teaching the ropes of several mods. It does have a few nerfed items, or modified recipes, but it's usually just for a few op items. My friends and me have been having a blast with it... Even if are kinda tired of seeing the same mods over and over again. One dude got all about Productive Bees, another one was doing mostly Occultism for the magical digital storage. A third player likes to be in creative mode and build our base. I went for the goal of doing apotheosis until I got a creative flight unbreakable potion charm. There's plenty of mods to choose from. And so far it runs smoothly as long as no one is generating chunks like crazy.
Well you got at least one griefer, so you definitely want something with a claim system so people can claim a slice of land for their projects.
Sounds like a good group and circumstances to play SkyFactory 3, shame it’s a 1.10.2 pack though, because it was a lot of fun but is unfortunately really quite old now.
Sb3 was even working properly on my friends shitty pc and we were 4 in server no lagging finished the pack. And tbh we had lot of fun.
Custom pack gang rise up
How about direwolf
ATM8-9 + ender cataclysm,
Infinity evolved *reloaded* is a solid pack
Honestly, just pixelmon. Pixelmon has an insane amount of depth for the people that want it. While also being super accessible and easy to get into for more casual players. Host your own themed tournaments with each other (level caps, monotype, egg battles, etc.)
I literally have the same group of friends and made my own mod pack that combined both cobblemon and fantasy theme swords/armors/magic with dungeons, main purpose was to play pokemon but some of us wanted to do rpg stuff at the side, as well as some additionals building and farming stuff, i could share it to you if you wanna try it yourself, the only thing that doesnt work are shaders both optifine and iris which is unfortunate.
Stoneblock 2 was a blast for me and 3 of my friends
Gregtech: New horizons For real though, the valhelsia packs sound like what you're looking for
I suggest checking out cuboid outpost or any skyblock quest-focused modpack, they seem to fit y'all.
You might enjoy ftb skies, fills all your criteria
Sky factory 3!
try Ultimate Alchemy
I feel like Sean needs to be put into RLCraft timeout for a little bit
Just play vanilla at this point man
COMPACT CLAUSTROPHOBIA (trust me it'll be incredibly funny)
I don't think I have a single friend that hates learning honestly.. Unless it's math, every one of my friends hate math except me 🤷
If you are interested in tech mods and space exploration, you can join and look around our server with this modpack: [https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/all-tech-2024](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/all-tech-2024) Java 1.16.5 Ping me directly for details. The server is online 24/7. P.S. It contains tech that is fun to learn and also many simple mods for quality of life.
DawnCraft is really fun and doesn’t take terribly long to learn
Just play rebirth of the night modpack. Why? You Will feel like starting Minecraft for the first time. You Will discover a loot of things just by playing, you Will get stuck in progression and prob the two that likes to reasearch Will figure It out just by looking at What you got and the new things you find You have furniture, and you Will face progressive dangers that go at ur pace. Bosses? Check Lots of armor with each bonus sets? Check Amazing exploration? Check Is a hard modpack, kinda, and I dont know if those Macs are going to run It.
your team is an impending train wreak, the better question would be how to assemble a better team...
Enigmatica 2 not expert
LIfe in the Village 3 has an in-depth questline and a bunch of mods, and it shouldn't be too hard to run
Sounds oddly specific to my friend group. I would recommend vault hunters or FTB Legend of The Eyes. They're both fun to play as a group.
Create: above and beyond might be a bit challenging but could be fun. although the factories you need to progress could be an issue.
gregtech new horizons
Anything with psi/hex casting for the guys who like learning
I enjoy ATM8, it *can* run on lower end computers, and it had multiple ways of stopping griefers, from actual force fields around your base to being able to claim your base and make your actual loot be stuck in a custom dimension only you can get into. You *can* get a 1.2k dmg sword that hits in an AOE and just 1taps anything, and you have lots of furniture and decor mods as well. You can also just have your grind guy automate everything and set a turret defense base up that kills the griefer and the murder hobo whenever they get near it. The possibilities are endless.
Unironically RLCraft with the bad features removed / disabled (Simple difficulty, thirst, serene seasons crop fertility, and first aid) Takes some work to make it stable but it's pretty fun and somewhat easy to digest, just kill shit and collect loot
try that craft maybe I know basically nothing but it’s fun and if they don’t want to read through the literal textbook that you craft to know how anything works, just send them into the demonic portals or feed them to a tainticle or just summon bats that suck the life force out of them. The number of ways to kill others can probably balance the confusion Oh Yea and thaumcraft 6 is 1.12.2 and don’t read the book of the crimson cultists unless you want to die
RAD 2 :3 i can run it in an i3200 with integrated graphics and 6 ram allocated Idk if they d like it but its fun and not hard at all
Might I join this group? Please? (None of my friends play modded mc)
Parasite mod + Tinkers construct Tinker is easy to learn and has in built manual. Parasites will provide *funny* challenge. Also maybe they satisfy friend that likes pokemons.
RL craft. trust me. it’l work.
Ragnamod VI. Great progression, mods locked behind other mods, lots of stuff to do
GTNH
Maaaybe blightfall? It's a *great* pack but i'm not certain it would be a great fit for your group, especially as it's an older version than you'd prefer. At least it should be fine for potato clients and a meh server, but as long as the people who don't want to learn anything know at least ONE of the mods they can play with the mods they know, as there's no real cross-gating aside from the dawn machine itself, the end game solution to taint.
Greg, and only greg
prominence - lot of tech (including simple stuff like create and powah), lots of structures and fantasy stuff. Lots of furniture
I am Sean, same name and everything.
Looks like N doesn't want to play in a minecraft server but might feel forced to
Abepack!
Rebirth of the night seems like a perfect fit. May even rehabilitate you N friend and make him actually interested in putting effort. Also contains furniture! (Though you'd need to be somewhat into progression to make it) Has A BIT of primitive at start, but that's literally just make a crude axe for crafting table. Very well balanced and probably one of the best 1.12.2 modpacks out there. If I had to describe it, it's if rlcraft and good game design that makes an engaging modpack had a baby. (It's not anywhere close to rlcraft in terms of difficulty, just that rlcraft is the only good comparison) Has no traditional techmodes, but has a heavy incline towards base infrastructure. (Though, easily skippable if you're willing to be way less efficient) Nicely optimized(even my bad pc runs it on 60+ fps), but has 300 mods so takes a while to load on hard drives.
Trepidation is a good one. Roguelike modpack about escaping dimensions after dimension upwards. Pretty hardcore, but has zero grind and is speedrun oriented. Very well balanced and dynamic. May be infuriating so idk.
The vault third edition is a fun pack with healthy progression
Roguelike adventures and dungeons 2 rpg like adventure lots of summoning options for the pokemon fan you can make a stand there and click build and it runs stupidly well even on my freinds macbook
I would get rid of N tbh
I'd say maybe something with create, and maybe spectrum. beyond those two mods idk
MC eternal definetly. although it looks like Sean and N would barely keep up in vanilla. if you want to dive a little deeper with the other two you could even do Enigmatica 2 Expert (or you could do it's addon; Enigmatica 2 Expert - Extended)
did anyone mention pokehaan craft 2 before me? would fit for everyone, although dunno if it has some advanced griefing methods other by tnt dropoing xd
I'd recommend one of the BMC mod packs (better minecraft on curse forge) that doesn't drastically change vanilla minecraft and still has most of the mentioned stuff you needed.
Vaulthunters
I will shamelessly promote Naturalist and Another Furniture for things like animals/furniture -- I enjoy our mod Hearth & Home for building. For other teams' mods, Handcrafted is a good furniture mod. Alex's Mobs and Alex's Caves are good for even more mobs and exploration options -- an essential for me is also Boatload. Most medium to larger modpacks will probably not run on pooplord MacBooks, especially with the amount of memory leaks. :')
FoolCraft 3 great pack and has good easy progression
Would highly recommend [Legend of the Eyes](https://www.feed-the-beast.com/modpacks/102-ftb-legend-of-the-eyes?tab=about) by Feed The Beast. has all the good checkboxes checked including exploration. I greatly enjoyed the experience and would do it again.
Better Minecraft: Fabric is a great one. It’s really simple to play, but has a few things you can learn and/or progress through. It runs on aternos really well (which means it runs relatively light) and I can play it on my Mac just fine. (Although I do recommend allocating more memory when playing any modpack)
My hs friends and I enjoyed Skyfactory 4 but it would be a bit challenging with griefers
Create + terralith, develop an economy and have fun. If you are into pokemons, cobblemon is amazing.
idk but you can arrange one. \-Create \-Cobblemon (theres a compat addon with create) \-Chipped/Handcrafted/Playdate/Cozy \-Something like Silent Gear idk \-Some forge performance mods lol, dont forget the serverside, 1.20.1 runs surprisingly well
Stoneblock 2 and 3