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I used to use that one, but I got tired of it not having CurseForge direct download ability, so I switched to the Prism launcher. Check it out & see if it'll do the trick for you!
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It's not a terrible launcher but I don't use it for the same reason I don't use Quilt, by faggots, for mostly faggots (moreso quilt than Prism since most people don't give a shit about that drama), for faggoty reasons. But if it works, have at it.
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Right, you lads have made me think about starting a world on Java.
Is there an idiots guide to modding it so it doesn’t look and play like arse? I’ll only be able to play on a laptop with a 3050 as I haven’t got the time/money at the moment to fix my proper gaming rig.
Is there an idiots guide to modding it so it doesn’t look and play like arse? I’ll only be able to play on a laptop with a 3050 as I haven’t got the time/money at the moment to fix my proper gaming rig.
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Yeah, I get where you're coming from on that... The latest message they have on their little "News" section is about how they're moving away from Twitter/X and onto Bluesky... Since the launcher works so well, I do my best to ignore idiocy like that, but I'll admit there are times it's VERY tempting to toss it in the bin...
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just get PolyMC instead, it's literally the exact same launcher but it's got less faggotry and gave me way fewer issues than Prism (which would crash when I tried to authenticate my profile, randomly not show certain mods on modrinth, consistently had longer loading times, and threw a fit every time I tried to import something from a .zip)
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Okay, downloaded it & will set it up a bit later...
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I have been mostly using Modrinth to play modded Minecraft (mostly because it seemed like a good alternative to Curseforge), but I've been thinking about trying out PolyMC.
Pissing off the nu-MC trannies aside, what are its advantages from your experience?
Pissing off the nu-MC trannies aside, what are its advantages from your experience?
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PolyMC lets you play with cracked accounts without any roadblocks. The single roadblock it had was a check if an microsoft account was present.
Before the split, trannies were "oh woe me, dun play illegal mineycrafta, billy wont like it". After it they just didnt care and gave you the option from the get go.
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The most important advantage of Poly/Prism/ATL over MMC is that you have a built-in mod/modpack browser, downloader and updater. If you have to download and install things manually, it's because it's something that's not on the big sites, but 99% of things are so it makes your life that much easier. You can download modpacks from Modrinth, Curseforge, ATLauncher, FTB and Technic, as well as individual mods from Modrinth and Curseforge all in a single launcher.
ATLauncher is more streamlined, but also heavier, slower, and doesn't give you as much control over how you run the game. Too handholdy but it's pretty solid IMO, likes to clean custom mod configs on modpack updates though, dunno if Poly/Prism act the same way. Also has a built-in scanner for the Fractureiser virus if you're concerned about that.
PolyMC is a fork of MMC so it's lighter and lets you adjust all sorts of things like .jar mods, individual modloaders, LWJGL versions and so on. It also supports offline (old school cracked) and authlib-injector which is a Chinese reverse engineered Mojang authentication server, essentially letting you host your own Minecraft ecosystem, completely detached from Mojang.
Prism is what happened after Lenny did the coup d'etat of Poly and is troon infested. Offers nothing worth of note that Poly doesn't, so avoid it, fuck 'em.
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Firstly, welcome to Java. It's superior simply because mods it's not associated with Microshits nonsense...fully at least. Anyway, can you elaborate on what you mean by "look or play like arse"? If you want it to play more like Bedrock, there's Bedrockify. If you want it to look more visually pleasing, simplest thing you can do is mess around with shaders and resource packs. Shaders require optifine (if you're below 1.16.5, optifine turns to dogshit in later versions) or Iris/Oculus (Fabric and Forge respectively), which in turn requires Sodium and Rubidium/Embeddium (recommend Embeddium more). They have some compatibility shenanigans but they're rare. As a bonus, try Distant Horizons. Basically it's an LOD mod for minecraft so you don't have to abuse your PC to see at a very long distance, also has compatibility shenanigans but the results speak for themselves:
It's easy to set this all up, but for a poorly made "idiots guide" try this:
-Install Java, most already have it installed for one reason or another, I recommend Adoptium
-Download a launcher, the default MC launcher works but I personally recommend an alternative such as ATLauncher or MultiMC + certain forks like PolyMC, I also used GDLauncher back in the day)
-For the default launcher, download and run the version of MC you want to use first, then exit the game when you reach the main screen, other launchers need not apply
-Download Forge/Neoforge/Fabric (Forge is better for heavier packs at the cost of performance and stabilty, fabric is the exact opposite, good for light packs, don't give a fuck about Neoforge), alternative launchers install them for you depending on what you want to run
-If you're using the default launcher, run the installer of your preferred modloader that you downloaded, make sure to pick "client" when asked
-In the default launcher, go to the installations tab, you should see it assuming the "modded" checkmark box is ticked on the top right, click play then exit like before
-Download a launcher, the default MC launcher works but I personally recommend an alternative such as ATLauncher or MultiMC + certain forks like PolyMC, I also used GDLauncher back in the day)
-For the default launcher, download and run the version of MC you want to use first, then exit the game when you reach the main screen, other launchers need not apply
-Download Forge/Neoforge/Fabric (Forge is better for heavier packs at the cost of performance and stabilty, fabric is the exact opposite, good for light packs, don't give a fuck about Neoforge), alternative launchers install them for you depending on what you want to run
-If you're using the default launcher, run the installer of your preferred modloader that you downloaded, make sure to pick "client" when asked
-In the default launcher, go to the installations tab, you should see it assuming the "modded" checkmark box is ticked on the top right, click play then exit like before
-To install mods, go into your .minecraft folder, easiest way to do that is click on the folder icon next to your modloader installation or by pressing windows button+R and typing %appdata%
-There should be a "mods" folder
-Go to Curseforge or Modrinth, you can mess with the options on the left-hand side if needed
-Once you find the mod you want, on either website, read the page thoroughly then click on the "Files" (CF) or "versions" (MR) tab
-Look for or select your game version and modloader
-Click on the file and download it
-Drag your downloaded mod into the "mods" folder in .minecraft
-Launch, should run if the mod and its requirements are downloaded
-To check requirements aside from reading the front page, for CF go into the "relations" tab, for MR go into "versions" again, click the file, then scroll down until you see "Dependencies" if there are any
-Alternate launchers usually automate this whole process
-There should be a "mods" folder
-Go to Curseforge or Modrinth, you can mess with the options on the left-hand side if needed
-Once you find the mod you want, on either website, read the page thoroughly then click on the "Files" (CF) or "versions" (MR) tab
-Look for or select your game version and modloader
-Click on the file and download it
-Drag your downloaded mod into the "mods" folder in .minecraft
-Launch, should run if the mod and its requirements are downloaded
-To check requirements aside from reading the front page, for CF go into the "relations" tab, for MR go into "versions" again, click the file, then scroll down until you see "Dependencies" if there are any
-Alternate launchers usually automate this whole process
-To install resources packs, do the same exact process as the mods, but resource packs don't need a modloader
-Make sure to check the mod page to see if a resource pack has extra steps, most don't but even complex ones such as Fresh Animations don't have many extra steps
-Drag resource pack into "resourcepacks" folder, install in-game, if there are problems read the front page again, check your resource pack version, and move it up or down the resource pack load order
-Make sure to check the mod page to see if a resource pack has extra steps, most don't but even complex ones such as Fresh Animations don't have many extra steps
-Drag resource pack into "resourcepacks" folder, install in-game, if there are problems read the front page again, check your resource pack version, and move it up or down the resource pack load order
-To install shaders, install Iris or Oculus and their requirements from earlier (I believe Iris doesn't need a modloader if installed via its installer)
-Run game, it should create a "shaderpacks" folder
-Download a shader, both sites have dedicated tabs for shaders
-Drop mod into "shaderpacks" folder
-In the video settings tab in the options, click on the shaders/shader packs tab, click on the shader you installed (Iris lets you drag and drop directly on the shaders screen, so you don't need to drag to the folder)
-Go in a world, you can mess with its settings too to suit your needs
-Run game, it should create a "shaderpacks" folder
-Download a shader, both sites have dedicated tabs for shaders
-Drop mod into "shaderpacks" folder
-In the video settings tab in the options, click on the shaders/shader packs tab, click on the shader you installed (Iris lets you drag and drop directly on the shaders screen, so you don't need to drag to the folder)
-Go in a world, you can mess with its settings too to suit your needs
If you need clarification, let me know, but there are probably better tutorials out there. Hm, might make a more in-depth guide on Rentry or Docs something.
Or because the mod author on CurseForge didn't allow external downloading, either because they don't know about that and it's disabled by default, or some ego related thing. "Heh, you have to open your browser and download it manually, fuck you."
To expand upon this, Lenny was the dev. It was his project. Everyone else was just brought on, he didn't perform a coup but rather kicked everyone out his dev team because he saw the writing on the wall but used the political pushing of his launcher as good excuse, he also did it abruptly so they don't do anything stupid. Never tell your enemy when you're coming for them and all that. Everything else is correct.
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"Complementary Reimagined" shaders, with the "Stay True" resource pack is a gemmy combination.
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It's superior simply because it's the Minecraft. It's the ground zero, where it all began. Mods were abundant long before Notch sold Minecraft to Microsoft, and it still remains the best, most versatile version that you can play. Best of all, nothing's stopping you from playing all the old versions, from 1.12.2, 1.7.10, to Beta, Alpha, or even the earliest development builds. Though with those you're better off using the Betacraft Launcher since AFAIK there aren't any centralized Beta/Alpha/Infdev/Indev/etc mods for MMC to fix those old versions up.
Guess I'm old fashioned since I always go for Oracle's Java. I remember having issues with 3rd party open source versions so I stuck to the old habit of getting reminded every time a new Java update happens that Oracle has once again changed their ToS so that I now have to sacrifice yet another newborn to have the privilege of using Java. Might try switch to Adoptium and see if it'll all shit the bed or not.
It's definitely best to jump straight to ATLauncher/PolyMC. The default launcher doesn't do anything that ATL/PMC couldn't do, but ATL/PMC are infinitely times better. Sure, the %appdata%/.minecraft way is a staple that you should know of, but fuck me if having everything contained within a single folder and being able to juggle multiple instances with ease isn't comfy as shit.
Obviously the fundamental knowledge when it comes to installing Minecraft mods, no matter the launcher, is:
-do you know what a directory structure is, how it relates to how programs work and how to navigate/manipulate it
-do you know what a ZIP archive is, how it differs from directories and how to use it
-do you know how to do basic file management, how to copy, move and delete files, what a file extension is, what it does and how to keep track of what you're doing
Something that used to be common knowledge but nowadays it's more and more common that people get lost on those fundamentals. But if you've got your head wrapped around them, modding Minecraft becomes trivial.
Just be happy you no longer have to directly edit minecraft.jar and delete META-INF, so if something goes wrong you just rename/move/delete one .jar file instead of having to rebuild your modded minecraft.jar all over again if you haven't made a backup copy before installing a single mod to have an easy rollback and keep track of what the fuck you've put into it yourself when installing/removing mods. Forge truly was a godsend.
Though he hasn't done much work on the launcher for most of the time, and once he kicked out all the devs there was no one left to develop it further so it's running on a skeleton crew. At the same time, Poly was already feature complete all things considered, so it's not like it was a big loss. Current Poly version supports all the modpacks and mods that you'd want to play, has NeoForge support if you're a nu version faggot, has offline mode, has authlib-inject support, it just works, what more do you want?
It is however telling how the kicked out devs reacted to the entire ordeal.
-They have called their fork Prism and used the LGBT flag colors for the branding just to rub it in whenever you use it with the usual "heh, it's a prism, not a flag, and it's pastel colored, you're seeing things chuddie" childish leftist semantic gotcha if you have an issue with it, even though it's obvious what they meant by it given the circumstances under which the fork happened, only further justifying Lenny's statement that the devs he kicked out were politically charged
-They've tried to sabotage Poly's AUR package since Lenny wasn't the owner of it just to make sure people wouldn't have the option to use Poly and instead their own special fork (MMC's dev refusing to use Flatpak/AUR was one of the main reasons Poly was made in the first place)
-They've spread blatant lies about PolyMC being "compromised", and that it'll "steal your MS account" with zero proof, that were even parroted by Mojang employees. Even though the way Minecraft launchers authenticate with it is done via MS' API's where it is impossible to steal your entire account
And of course the spamming of the PolyMC Github issues insulting Lenny and sending death threats to Lenny as the most natural reaction that comes to their mind, very classy and not at all mentally deranged behavior that makes me want to root for Prism and Scrumplex and not for Poly and Lenny.
Lenny might've killed most development momentum that Poly could have, but fucking hell, given how the fags reacted to it completely justifies his decision. Total Prism Death.
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Well, I got PolyMC installed, but it keeps on stalling when downloading assets from Mojang. I've stopped (figuratively) banging my head against the wall for the time being while doing a little research into how I can make some progress on it. Hell, maybe Mojang's server's just being a pain in the ass at the moment and it'll work itself out soon enough...
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When I first installed it, it refused to download modpacks for some reason. On the second run it worked perfectly fine. Maybe turning it off and on again would help.
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Yeah, I did that 3 or 4 times now. Even did a reboot of the computer in case that was the issue. Eh, no worries, it'll get worked out soon enough!
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Well said man, I didn't want to go specifically into it since I never touched Bedrock.
I haven't had any problems, but Oracle's Java is still fine, Azul is another choice as well. Each devs is different in some way but in the end it's whatever that works with the least problems.
Yeah pretty much, I mean it was the perfect time to kick them out. Even better he can pretty much do nothing from now on and it'll still be better than 99% of launchers. In fact the other forks (Prism and PollyMC specifically) which have bigger teams barely do anything either so even if some big thing comes out that launchers should add, he probably won't need to do much.
Oh God, that was pain. I remember making a detailed tutorial for it on YouTube and it blew up because of how much people struggled. It's not up anymore because it's no longer needed.
See, now that I did not know, thanks for telling me so I can hate them more.
I still hear that shit too, thankfully people do correct others but sometimes it's just "NUH UH YOU'RE WRONG IT'S MALWARE" and refuse to compromise. Quick looks at their post histories (this is mostly the FTB subplebbit) tends to tell you what kind of people they are.
That was fun, I wish I screenshot a few.
Check their github, someone might be going through/has gone through this problem and may have an answer.
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The PolyMC drama was discussed in this thread from page 46 onwards if you want to recap it yourself. There are even Git issues where these faggots wanted to "reclaim" the Flatpak instead of making their own, the pettiness was through the fucking roof. Scrumplex was actively encouraging, and engaging in this fuckery, such as sabotaging Poly with what little power he still had over it just to build his narrative to damage it even further out of spite, so yeah, he can go fuck himself. In the typical troonery fashion, the Prism team has made their own image squeaky clean despite all the damning evidence that they went above what Lenny did in retaliation, while spreading blatant, baseless lies about Lenny and PolyMC that still linger to this day.
So keep that in mind, Scrumplex, and by extent the Prism Launcher team have spread misinformation about PolyMC, directly harassed Lenny through death threats, made up fake CVE's to revoke PolyMC's API keys, and went out of their way to sabotage his project to purposefully break it and make it seem like Prism was the rightful successor that should replace PolyMC completely instead of becoming a separate fork only because he kicked them out of it and deleted one text file from the repo.
If you're using Prism Launcher, you're willingly using software made by people who would gladly turn it into malware if they could fuck you over for your political beliefs and they're not hiding that fact. If they could install ransomware on Lenny's computer, they 100% would. So if you're still on Prism, delete it immediately and move to PolyMC. Prism Launcher has been compromised from the start, unlike PolyMC.
Funnily enough, when I tried to mod Beta again a few years ago I completely forgot how to do it. I forgot to delete META-INF and couldn't remember how you should install mods that go both to minecraft.jar and mods/ folder. Despite the fact I was handling it like a champ when I was like, what, 10 years old? Within days of me discovering Minecraft and finding the AnjoCaido launcher? And I have retained just about every file from that era? Yeah this can become esoteric knowledge even for those that knew how to do it back in the day.
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Yeah, I checked their github for both open & closed bug reports, and even checked their discord to see if there was anything in there. Didn't see anything in github, but I did see two people posting in the discord about it. One person resolved it by, essentially, turning it off and back on again. I'll have to see what the other one's resolution turns out to be, since the turn off/turn on approach didn't work for me. *shrugs*
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Seriously though. I can't stop reading the name as "Wanderslop".
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