Well said! I agree that as long as you have a goal you are chasing, whether it is provided by the modpack itself or by yourself, then you will probably stay motivated. I think it is also important to identify friction points that come up and try deal with them as soon as possible. They are usually pretty subtle, but can pile up, and before you know it... you don't want to play the world anymore even if you still have a goal in mind.
Precisely! The fact that you have held on to your LP world for so long is very impressive. I still remember you creating the world, and even before that on Chocolate Island. Your world at this point is timeless. I have loved following the journey with you as you have developed it into the sprawling world of unfinished projects we know today haha :D Really though, I appreciate you checking out the video. I always look forward to yours, and your steak tutorial was useful this evening. Keep being awesome Etho!
Best way I have found to complete a mod pack, is to do a play through using cheats first, and use that play through to learn what is important to prioritize in the mod pack. Then do a normal play through.
Okay your castle is really cool. I keep falling into the stereotype of sanctioned areas independent of each other like labeled drawers, and the idea of making a castle a high tech control center with specialized architecture like in a normal castle but for the specialized tech is a rad concept. I am thinking a modern parody of old and well functioning systems breathing an interesting take on things. Makes me wonder what a trade route would look like with mining turtles, or other weird stuff that throws out maximum efficiency by having it adhere to a theme, rather than just the building itself being themed.
this is all very impressive, personally im not a big modpack guy but i like making my own survival modpacks, and one of the mods CREATE i struggle with, and create above and beyond could help me get over that barrier and make create useful in my survival worlds, i know it is a simple mod compared to the rest but still.
I'm genuinely impressed to see your channel grow and improve in quality so much in such a short time, I wish you'd continue gtnh but I understand that the pack got to be a bit too much at that level, thank you for all the effort you put into your content Three!!!
I like to play my own modded version of Minecraft. I've been streaming everyday for the first time. I'm at more than 40 hours and I've barely built my base. I've been trying to make TH-cam videos out of it. I have to wonder how people manage to release videos on a weekly basis when there is so much grinding involved.
The reason why i couldnt finish any modpack is because of the lag, mid to late game always lag the hell out of my base. Hope that you or anyone can make a video on how to manage lag in modded
I might have said this before but playing with friends may also keep you motivated to play. Don't choose distracting people though. I went from building a new factory in Omnifactory to creating a giant troll face and watching youtube after getting distracted.
Im genuinely impressed at the time, effort and courage it takes to not only just start a giant modpack, but record yourself and set challenges for yourself. To be able to do all that AND still edit videos and make them high quality defines you in a light that i would see as no less than amazing. I love your style of editing and your dedication to modded minecraft. Keep up the amazing work Three!!!
Yes! It's great to see someone bring their passions to life and weave them together so well. Good for him! I hope he enjoys it for years to come, so we can keep enjoying his content. And I hope he finds a great balance, so he never gets burned out or feels forced into doing anything like we see happen too often to good YT'ers. I'll stay subbed w/ notifications on no matter what!
Your first world is still far better than mine whenever I play I promise myself that I will build a base, but it always ends the same purely "temporary" setups as far as the eye can see
I've played MC since alpha web browser, and still build little square box houses...haha Not being artistic is rough in games like this when others always do such amazing things!
Lots and lots of trial and error. I always say feel free to copy any of the designs of building ideas in any of my videos. I always love seeing how people adapt the ideas. :D
@bartek Hah! When me and my friends play factorio, I always bring up the old adage: "There's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution." That's one that me and my friends always find relevant to automation games lol
@@Threefold. For me the answer was to stop trying to, I simply enjoy the automation part and no the building part so I just automate underground and build above ground
Grian has some good videos for aesthetics in minecraft. Could be work checking him out. Might also be better to build your base in modules. For me knowing how much space you will need for the rest of the modpack, making it look good, and building it all is overwhelming. Doing a bit at a time could be less overwhelming. Might also be worthwhile to admit when a base isn't working out in a world, starting a new one somewhere else, and them moving all your stuff there.
This is the first time I've come across your channel and woah! I've always been more of a vanilla guy so seeing you go through all your modded bases was a really cool thing to see, and honestly I do think a lot of what you talked about in the video definitely applies to vanilla in a lot of ways. Awesome video dude!
Maybe it's just me, but I loved your vanilla collection project base the most. The block palette was the most cut back and subdued, leading to great comfy scenes, the buildings were seperate but connected in with each other, and because of the limitations of no mods I saw you using blocks in more creative ways like trapdoors as walls, the azalea bushes as flooring with the moss and stuff. As always kep up the great work Three!
An absolute amazing video, You mentioned in the video that at various points there is a step up in quality of video production. In my opinion you can notice in every episode, each episode gets better and better than the last. In terms of editing, building, gameplay in general and quite frankly quality. All your episodes are genuinly a pleasure for me to watch. Even though Inferno isnt my type of pack, I still thoroughly enjoyed watching, I originally came for the minecraft, I am staying for you. Also I too can't wait for the next Journey!
The TCP base is by far your best work aesthetically, and seeing you fit some creative vanilla farms into those spaces was really fun. It's a shame it couldn't be continued, because you are a much better builder than you give yourself credit for. Just no more limestone please
I really like your videos and have started watching them from the middle of your atm7 playthrough! Although I still haven't understood the concept of base building. Your builds are extremely beautiful and really make me want to continue playing modded minecraft, but I still haven't worked out the basic stuff. How do you do the height variation? How do you work out a good color palette out of hundreds of different blocks that come from different mods? How do you separate the rooms so everything doesn't get clumped up in one space? How do you make every hallway so exiting instead of being extremely linear? And do you like to work with odd or even symmetry lines? I really hope you answer some of these questions and even if you don't I'm really exited for the next mod you're going to take on! Good luck with whatever you're going to take on, as I will always tune in to your videos! Edit: I liked the most your Divine Journey 2 base as it was so HUGE!
Look, I'm not super good but I do have some advice. 1. test in a creative world: look at some of the options you have and look at what you can do. 2. add depth: archways, windowsills, and pillars can add lots of depth to your builds. 3. stick with a theme: try to stay with a theme per area, this can help narrow down ideas that might not fit. 4. look for inspiration: look at art, games, buildings, and other media. 5. take your time: don't rush yourself you've got time.
The inferno pack was an amazing pack with the colours and your style of building always looks so good, you always seem to know what your gonna do next to progress and it seems so effortless. I tend to build then rebuild to make things work better while trying to automate as much as I can as I go forward. you get 100/10 in my opinion!
Oh there are plenty of times and many hours of building and creative testing before the video, some of which I share. Most of it though, ends up deleted. Don't be discouraged after seeing how easy it seems on video. I always struggle with trying to come up with ideas, it's not an easy thing to do! :D
My main problem is that I enjoy just being in my worlds too much some times. I could move a lot faster if I didn't spend so much time doing literally nothing but watching things I've built actually work. But then, what's the point in building it and making it look nice if you don't just experience it some times?
I always waste weeks of my life creating modpacks and getting them to work nice and smooth and then, when I'm actually playing them, I usually just walk around, get killed by something, and don't play them ever again. This video was super helpful, so, Thanks!
I started watching you recently after finding your Divine Journey2 playthrough, which I was looking for as my laptop stopped letting me play modded minecraft when I was in the middle of the pack. Safe to say I have loved every single one of your videos which I have watched and will continue to watch them as long as you continue to make them. This video really makes me want to play again so I'm going to keep having to pretend I'm playing myself through your videos. Thank you for all the effort you put in to make such amazing videos
I've been playing modpakcs since Tekkit back in the day, only packs I've "finished" are Material Energy (either 1 or 2) and Agrarian Skies, got fairly close to finishing Forever Stranded but not quite. I usually play for a week or so and even if I enjoy the pack a lot, I quickly get tired of the grind, oh I need more X ore for the 100th time or something, spend the next 2 hours mining and looking for it. It's either that or extremely slow automation which happens in some Skyblock packs
I started watching with you with GTNH and it's really cool seeing how your building style has changed over time. I personally love your Collection Series "base" the best, everything just looks amazing in that world. Looking forward to your next series.
you made a one-off comment at 16:34 about how base design and planning could easily be its own video; i would absolutely love if you wound up making it! i personally find that planning my modded bases is one of my biggest struggles that prevents me from settling into a pack and would really appreciate hearing your thoughts. cheers
y'know honestly, a modpack I've always wanted to complete and finish has got to be sevtech ages, it's a real fun pack that does have some pretty grindy bits but still tries to balance grinding with fights and such, however, the betweenlands has gotta be the most rotten part of that pack, the grind always goes up between the ages, but the requirements from age 2 to age 3 is such a huge jump it really discouraged me so much
This is the first video of yours that I ever saw. I don't know why the algorithm sent you my way but I'm glad it did. Your videos have been wonderful to watch and I'm very impressed. I've been bouncing between watching your 2nd season of GTNH and the backlog of divine journey, and I've thoroughly enjoyed both and will continue to do so as I work through the backlog. Keep up the great work, it's incredibly enjoyed!
Would love to see that video on base building and planning, as I feel like that’s my biggest issue. I’m TERRIBLE at building, but at the same time I really want an awesome looking base to spend my time in, so I end up losing all motivation.
I quite often did lawn builds & multiple personal made packs. I got pretty deepish into create a&b on a server that i should ask for thr file to compelete it. I dont have many of my prior packs playable but i think i can scrounge up somw old screenshots which i think i will do. Thx for some perspective. ❤️ Cool to see creative, tech, & magic. (From what i seen hope you try hex casting at somepoint)
I have yet to complete a Mod pack due to losing motivation. I just left Omnifactory due to the amount of time it would take to finish it and it's hard... But my brother and I are playing StoneBlock 3 and actually almost finished with it already. pretty short pack but one I may actually finish for the first time. This video was helpful with the tips. I'm not much of a base builder but i do love automation. Thank you for providing the content! (would love a Stoneblock series btw ;) )
Really enjoyed your look back at previous series. I found you through looking for help with DJ2, my partner and myself took on the challenge, and even with two of us it may not get finished, although I do really enjoy it! We took a break from DJ2 and basically did play along with you as you went through Inferno, I let my partner deal with Minecolonies, he seemed to enjoy it- I did not. I was quite happy base building and breeding those bees, my bee corridor took direct inspiration from yours. Excited to see where you go next! Love your content.
@@Threefold. Yeh Co op is good, we work well together generally. He likes the tech and exploration stuff and I like the building/ magic mods more generally although I'm partial to some good storage systems! Honestly, to me, taking on one of these packs alone would be a touch intimidating. Thanks for the response!
Im curious, have you considered playing Sevtech Ages? Why or why not? Theres just something so boring about spawning in, digging into the side of a mountain and planting magical crops that completely negate the "mine" part of "minecraft". Atleast with quarries, SOMETHING was mining the resources out of the world. With mods like Create, you can make massive world drills that are far more interesting than, say, taming a teal bee and have it make "diamond combs". It seems like with a lot of these modpacks, the end goal is basically to get to creative mode. I don't really find that at all interesting, because then the goal switches from building things because you *should*, to just building things because you *could*, so its still hard for me to complete packs. If I just want to sit in a base and tech up, Satisfactory and Factorio both scratch the itch. Maybe you find it interesting just as a puzzle solving game? Modded minecraft, most of the time, doesn't give you any validation outside completing objectives for the sake of completing objectives. I almost always make my base near a village, because defending it from raids and hostile mobs is atleast something interesting to do that isn't purely just amassing materials for the hell of it.
I can never make these mega bases man, like is usually just lawn bases and such since I don't really care about artistic stuff that much, also can never 100% complete packs because I get bored around end game
I've been playing modded MC since 2012. There have been countless packs I've never finished. I'd say most. As an INFP I dream of finishing all of these with epic base builds, but I can definitely agree with one of your points that, if you don't like the look of your base, then your motivation for playing is going to drop off. And thats where I fail, 100% of the time. Its just becomes a jumbled mess, I don't know how to improve, and I start to look at everything else as chore. I think if I could emulate your type of builds, the interest would stick around a LOT longer. So I ask you, PLEASE do a video tutorial on your point of view of base building. How does one go about building a huge base? Should we piece it together? How? Should we lay it out all at once? How do you literely go about figuring where a room for thaumcraft should be vs mekanism vs your bedroom/livingroom/kitchen(if you have any)? Is it just random? Is a lot of your base building random? Like, lets throw in a wall/staircase.... here and "see where things go"? Thank you!!
this video represents how the modded minecraft for some people are a hole new world every single pack, i really enjoy all of ur series, im here since omnifactory one, and being an spanish speaker whit a really poor english knowledge i really love the simplicity of ur teaching, i hope one day i can do the massives and beutifull structures than u made and hope i can still learn whit u :D congratz from Chile! PD: where do u took ur base ideas? i really love the way u build for every single automation u have a design than makes me crazy
okay, new question: how do I complete a modpack when I'm notoriously bad at creating complex structures (base building, automation, you name it)? am I just out of luck?
The Vanilla building is so cool! I've always thought about building my base in the vision of various mods being tied to certain buildings in a village, but I could never justify the logistics of it all. It just sounds like a nightmare. 😭
The effort put into this video alone is heartwarming :) This is my first video on your channel, oddly enough, and I am AMAZED at the amount of time you've put in! Your love for the game, and for creating videos for people to enjoy, shows! Much love and wishing you a fantastic 2024.
Just looking at the difference between your base in season 1 of GT:NH and the current one, wow I love the new base. At one point i remember someone saying that when you finish, your base will become an iconic GT:NH megabase and its so true.
The first big modpack i was getting into the endgame was ATM. I hopped on everyday after work and spent my time exlporing new mods and having fun to figure out how to automate and how difrrent mods work. I even was getting somewhat close to the atm star, until the server I played on resetted the world. It hapend out of nowhere and my motivation sunk in lightnig speed. The promise of the owner to provide us with the world map never got fulfilled so I couldnt even finish what i've begun offline. I just cant get the same amount of motivaton on offline servers, neither do I want to play on servers anymore after learning how much restriction there exists between diffrent servers.
3:03 i have to strongly disagree there. Netherbrick and stonebrick are a top notch palete combination. In my old Better than wolves run, the nether fortress i centerd my nether operations arround had all the floor replaced by stonebrick and it looks great. I did it for gameplay reasons(in that mod, nether mobs only spawn on netherrack and netherbrick and completely ignore light levels) but i was really happy with the result. To this day. Better than Wolves is still the most fun i've ever had with minecraft. It's like a hardcore vanilla plus on steroids experience. Like an alternate future of what the game could have become, more centered arround difficult survival mechanics and some interesting automation puzzles that are closer to what now the create mod is doing than the average IC/Buildcraft descendants modded minecraft experience. And it does all of that while taking advantage of vanilla features instead of reinventing the wheel. So you will use water currents to move items and pistons to harvest crops. All the "machines" have to be build in world from simple blocks and be controlled with redstone circuits in a very elegant way. So you play more building rather than in the crafting grid. It's a bit sad that after 11 years of development the author retired without finishing the polish of the end game due to health reasons. But despite not having a final challenge or goal. It's still a great mod and a lot of fun. The community has picked the mantle and it's polishing the few rough edges the author left. So it's even easier to recomend if you want a challenging but fair survival game with lots of care put to it's balance and some interesting and unique gameplay you won't find elsewere.
For myself, the problem is the culpability. I really love playing modded minecraft and put in place complexe machinery but I feel like I don't have enough time with school for doing it. So I'm culpabilising since I have the impression to be inefficient and for not advancing
Honestly your reason for youtube playing, that is, just playing the games, makes it really clear that you're exactly the channel I wanna watch. Like, there's a real feeling of like "You're watching your friend play this game" to it, it's very cozy, in a way, haha. It's earnest gameplay of someone who's having a great time most of the time, and it's fun to sorta share the ups and downs and get to know your bases as you build them. Like, when I rewatch your series, it's always a lot of fun knowing what the end result is and re-seeing how you get there with that finished image in mind. In some, like early Divine Journey, it can really throw you for a loop, haha.
I've just foundyour channel through this video, and I wish I'd found it sooner. All of my modded bases pale in comparison of size, beauty, and progress to the ones you've shown here. In recent months, I've started to get bored of modpacks very quickly, but seeing these bases has given me inspiration. I tend to speed through the questbook, forgetting to enjoy myself along the way. I end up with a base that consists of a few machines running out of power in a cave, and I give up when I realize I should have been making a proper base. I'm in the middle of a FTB Stoneblock 3 playthough right now, and I think I'll apply some of your advice to my base. Thank you!
Honestly you're a huge inspiration for me going out of my comfort zone in modpacks nowadays, I hope these tips can help me out with Stoneblock 3 that I'm playing currently. I'd definitely say your Divine Journey 2 base is my favorite one, something about the color palette I love.
Hey there, I came here since the start of your Inferno modpack and I had a blast watching it. I really think you deserve more subs then most people with even 1 milion subs! I am sure your channel will blossom the more modpacks you do, I love your style of edditing your footage whilst leaving the raw footage on another channel for those interested. Livestreams are a blast as well to watch. The way you explain certain modpacks and on how they work were also easy to follow and led me to play inferno myself too! It really is a blast playing through the pack, I am aiming to get the minecolony to really be self sufficient and fully upgraded to everything tier 5. Like making a whole city as if I would be playing cities skylines or something! hahaha Keep up the amazing content mate, also love your accent when you talk very relaxing to listen too
Ohhh, so that's what happened to TCP. Thanks for the explanation, Three, and don't worry, your decision is totally understandable. This is your job after all and we gotta do what we must to pay the bills. In any case please rest assured that me and the majority of your viewers thoroughly enjoyed the series and recognized how much effort you put into each episode. I personally think it was one of your best and awaited each episode eagerly. Hope you can continue to do TH-cam as long as it's fulfilling to you and remember we'll always be here :)
For me my favorite one of your base is definitely still DJ2. Because it reminds me of the fun time following through the series from start to end. Modded minecraft is really an awesome game. I think its also one of the few games that I would say its equally fun to watch someone else play as it is to play it ourselves. Sometimes it's even more fun to watch a series simply because some of us really dont have the time to invest on a modpack. Looking forward to more and better series in the future. Been a pleasure to have seen your channel and content progressed since the beginning 😊👍
Hey Soul good to see you here once again. Thanks for your support throughout all the series so far! I agree with you 100% I could watch modded MC all the time, there is something very appealing about it to me. Hopefully we can have many more adventures in the future! Have a good one
Nice Video. I've always asked the question, "How do you play modded minecraft" especially without quests. I always found myself lost on how to start. I took a long break from minecraft literally from 1.12.2 and started back in 1.20.2. I have to re-learn all the new mod packs and how they function. I could never find myself progressing past the early stages because of building. Skyblock has always been my favorite type of modpack due to the fact it has less lag vs generating a whole world. I'm a huge fan of Project Ozone 3 and it sucked that a 4th iteration wasn't created. Now I heard there is a new 1.18 Project No Zone.
Love your series. I’ve been binge watching all of your content. Could you do a AE2 breakdown? I’m having issues even when going back to your old videos
I'm playing DJ2 right now and it's the first time I'm actually building stuff instead of making a lawn base, I'm not very creative so I copied your limestone, basalt base design and modified it abit by adding white blocks, but I really underestimated how much more motivated I am when my base isn't an eyesore to look at Also after hearing how proud/passionate you are of the collection project I will absolutely give it a watch
I personally have recently moved from Vanilla to modded. Thanks to one of my friends attempting to put together their own "from-scratch" pack. I have always had an inkling for trying it out, but had no real reason to push through, until I came across a series put together by another channel. Then through them I had found you. You were the first time I had ever heard about GT:NH, and I was psyched about trying it out... Until I saw what Greg really did. So I decided to look at the first real pack that I wanted to experience, which is suggested below. All I can say is, thank you for pushing the limits of my comfort to a point that has allowed me to truly motivate myself to experience Modded Minecraft. While you may not be the only one influencing me to play, you are definitely the most collected and calm personality that I have started keeping an eye on. Keep on playing, but please take breaks when you need them. Notch knows that you'll need it the next time you take on a huge pack. I can't wait to see what you've got going on next! I have a suggestion for a modpack that I have personally found interesting because it mixes two of my favorite games. 1.12.2's "Feed the Factory" by Vnator (or Vinator, can't remember the proper spelling). It's a Factorio styled pack, mixed for Minecraft. You've got custom recipes, "research packs" and all sorts of high-power automation. The obvious goal is to get the Quantum Research and unlock the things that would allow to basically generate functionally-infinite materials and components. But my personal goal for it, is to be able to request literally anything and make an infinite amount of any research I need. I know that's a rather large goal, but it is a great "completion" goal that works with my mind.
Yeah like a lot of others I found you when you were going through DJ2 to help me get through that pack, I love your play style and have found a lot of inspiration from your building style as well. Anyways thank you for bringing us these entertaining play throughs, I’m looking forward to seeing what you do next!
Just came across this, i have been a modded player for the past few years and i really love a lot of the packs you made a video about. However, since i have a very low end pc(about 6 gb free ram) i am unable to play most modpacks efficiently which upset me. Are there any low requirement modpacks that anybody can recommend to me? Optionally some not very famous ones as i am already aware of a lot of the popular lite/low end modpacks and either finished or played them. Currently i am playing through divine journey 2 (which somehow is playable) but i doubt that i can go far on that since it started to lag after i had made around 5 chunks load. İt is still very playable since i am getting a decent fps compared to all other modpacks i tried but i believe as i keep progressing and need more loaded chunks at one point it is going to be unplayable.
Definitely giving motivation again. I've always designated DDSS as my "long-term" pack. Due to life, it's been put on hold, but this video definitely reinforces my desire to play it. It's my first real attempt at completing a modpack and actually trying to build, not just have a flat surface. Thanks again for the video, Three!
You got it Chris! Just take things a step at a time and before you know it you will step back and realise how far you have come. Thanks for watching :D
I've struggled with packs, I want to complete something, anything, but man. It's hard to put my finger on exactly what stops me overall. It's gotten especially frustrating lately because I've found some packs I really like- except for specific quirks that make it so frustrating to progress. Mechanical Mastery (and MM Plus) really started to click for me, but use of specific mods (and HAVING to use those mods) nuked my motivation. For MM, it was Create (I enjoy create but it can be so clunky to set up that I've started to actively avoid it), and for MM+, it was use of the Admin Shop over ProjectE, because I just find the admin shop so, so much more frustrating to use. There's a relatively new pack called Berseria Sky that I really love the vibe of, but its progression crosses the line of 'somewhat tedious grind' to 'absolutely OBNOXIOUS and unnecessary grind' so far that I really can't bring myself to keep going. I do think part of my issue is that I'm a chronic 'new world' starter. I drop the pack for a bit, can't remember where I was or what I was doing, so I start over, since I know better ways to progress anyway. It's definitely resulted in me having issues with keeping motivation in pack starts since I play Skyblock almost exclusively for Reasons and a lot of Skyblocks have basically the same start. Staring at Sieves drives me bonkers, and far too many have you grinding out that early sieving for far, far too long. I've considered making a modpack myself, and that's definitely the first thing I want to avoid if I do manage to make one. CobbleForDays is a godsend.
The clip was from my Omnifactory series, but the modpack has rebranded to Nomifactory. I suggest searching for that, as it's the most up to date. However, to get the most recent versions, definitely play the beta builds of the pack. Details you can find on either my discord or the Nomi discord :)
One of the issue I often face with really hard mod packs that has a big hit to my motivation for pushing to the finish line is performance issues in the end game. With large bases, tons of farm/setups/automations/etc the server always starts lagging behind which lead to a much worse gameplay experience.
Beautiful video, this definitely helped me understand how to achieve goals better! It is about being intentional! Very cool worlds, it looks like you have had many wonderful experiences in Minecraft and I'm super happy for you! :D
Thanks @Threefold your videos are always interesting, entertaining, and inspiring! I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel! My favorite base is the FTB Interactions. I am yet to finish the series, but it's pretty awesome already ))
Man I’m in such a tough spot with my modpack because it’s a homebrew I put together four-five years ago just before I started college and I couldn’t keep up with it into my third and fourth years of school. That means I have an unfinished 1.12 pack that is my pride and joy, but have this feeling that I’m missing out not being able to do other packs or 1.16 packs. What do yall think, should I just push through to the end now that I’ve graduated?
I've lost my last minecraft friend in Divine Jorney 2, somewhere on blood magic chapter. Now want to make something big, but I will never have willpower to finish it. Maybe I'm just too old already. Maybe I'll start from finishing GTNH S2 on this channel.
Just found your channel and it reminded me of all the time I spent on various modpacks, starting from Infitech 2 on 1.7.10 and the pre-fusion chrome grind everytime GT5u shows up (I am so glad with the changes in GT packs moving to GTCE). Your first E2E base is already orders of magnitude more aesthetically pleasing than mine which is basically a 5x5 chunk hole all the way to bedrock. I did not even build ceilings for a large part of the base, just exposed AE cables. I would say an important factor of motivation that you did not mention is the actual modpack design itself. Certain packs are not very well designed and could in fact lead of higher abundance rate. Personally, I think modpacks should avoid difficulty wall (a sudden unavoidable increase in grindiness/difficulty just to progress) and strive for a smooth curve that ramps up the grinding and difficulty gradually, and reward progression into a new "age" with either a new set of challenges and tools or a much much simpler recipe as the starting point for the new "age" once you started it (basically making the first of an item/machine is difficult but the 2nd and beyond are much easier because of the first). 3 infamous examples of difficulty wall are: the Bronze Best Friend in GT5u, the pre-fusion chrome grind in GT5u (these 2 plagued a lot of GT packs in 1.7.10), and Divine Journey 1 requires millions of obsidian blocks farmed from Mystic Agriculture that would take IRL years even with tick accelerators and top-of-the-line computer hardware (I remember a reddit post calculating this). On the other hand E2E and Nomnifactory are very well designed and give relatively smooth difficulty curves. They either introduce new elements and mods gradually in the case of E2E, or gives exponentially more efficient recipes of the same item (Transistor-IC-SMD-SoC circuit progression which in fact is based on real world technological progression) in the case of Nomni.
just uninstalled Forever Stranded after like 3 days, I got sad and distressed of how things would take so many steps and many basic ones, like, redstone is primarily obtainable by sifting dust and the process to just getting the dust is another headache, I wished the quests would help me automate these starting things so i could get my head on learning other things, start learning a mod for a quest line, but it didn't. So, i essentially discovered after all that time there was a automatic sifter so i tried making it, I did it, but the migrane that was getting to it was inexplicable, i made 2 machines from thermal expansion, started the engineering one desperately trying to get that damned thing. After getting it and testing, it required way to much power than i had at the moment and it destroyed me. I'll move on to another modpack in search of a fresh start, maybe someday i'll get back to Forever Stranded.
I have a problem. I'm too dumb for the EXPERT expert modpacks, but i've tried all the baby-easy ones. Which ones could I find that are.. intermediate?-
I love that many of these older modpacks are still getting active updates: GTNH, Omnifactory->Nomifactory, Enigmatica 2: Expert -> Enigmatica 2: Expert - Extended, Divine Journey 2... I just wish that FTB Interactions was still receiving updates, seeing as FTB has turned into a profit hungry corporation, it doesn't make business sense for them to endlessly maintain their own modpacks, so FTB modpacks have a short shelf life.
All points said in the video also apply to every other video game. While most games give you clear objective, sometimes you need to make them yourself. I personaly tried few times to play minecraft modpacks but i always got bored after playing it for a while, i guess it's just not for me. But watching minecraft modpacks is always fun.
My way of playing modpacks is like this: -Start a world, get familiar with some of the mods (or use the mods you know from previous playthroughs) -Build some efficient but kinda ugly farms (everything must be efficient and ugly) -make a whole mess of the base, because there's cables everywhere -build a solid storage system -get OP armor and stuff, basically become a god (you have all the items, you're basically invincible) -get bored, because you basically entered creative mode. -start a new modpack, get further, because you get better and faster at playing modded minecraft with each playthrough -get hooked because of some mods (mainly create, thermal expansion combined with extra utilities 2, EnderIO, EvilCraft, Tinker's Construct (but don't use it, just build a smeltery and then use it like 5 times and don't get yourself any armor or tools, even tho you have hundreds of cobalt and ardite). -get annoyed by some mods (that mod when you have to eat different foods) -enter peaceful mode (no monsters, no hunger, no distractions) -repeat previous steps -get bored -start a new modpack or continue in old one (or both) -relapse I'm getting better and better at modded Minecraft, but I'm getting more and more impatient for building. I was never a builder. Once I tried to build something massive in Project Ozone 3, it seemed a bit too ugly, so i quit the modpack. When I don't build in modpacks, I don't get burnt out so easily, because I think that the machines are much more fun than building. EDIT: You can call all my bases lawn bases. I just want to play with the mods and not get distracted by aesthetics.
For me personally, once I achieve infinite power, resources, and full automation I feel like I completed the modpack. Some packs have an end goal like ATM with the ATM trophy and once I get those I consider it completed. Though I did not get the ATM7TTS trophy before moving on which is always on my mind lol.
Well said! I agree that as long as you have a goal you are chasing, whether it is provided by the modpack itself or by yourself, then you will probably stay motivated. I think it is also important to identify friction points that come up and try deal with them as soon as possible. They are usually pretty subtle, but can pile up, and before you know it... you don't want to play the world anymore even if you still have a goal in mind.
Precisely! The fact that you have held on to your LP world for so long is very impressive. I still remember you creating the world, and even before that on Chocolate Island. Your world at this point is timeless. I have loved following the journey with you as you have developed it into the sprawling world of unfinished projects we know today haha :D Really though, I appreciate you checking out the video. I always look forward to yours, and your steak tutorial was useful this evening. Keep being awesome Etho!
@@Threefold. when are you uploading? Its been 8 days! We need you… please!
Never expected to see you here so I want to take this opportunity to say I love your videos. Much bro love to you!
@@4louisMC He's (hopefully) gregging.
Love you Etho!
Best way I have found to complete a mod pack, is to do a play through using cheats first, and use that play through to learn what is important to prioritize in the mod pack. Then do a normal play through.
This method actually sounds really underrated. Especially with something like gregtech, where it's very unforgiving.
probably one of the greatest modded minecraft videos of all time
Okay your castle is really cool. I keep falling into the stereotype of sanctioned areas independent of each other like labeled drawers, and the idea of making a castle a high tech control center with specialized architecture like in a normal castle but for the specialized tech is a rad concept. I am thinking a modern parody of old and well functioning systems breathing an interesting take on things. Makes me wonder what a trade route would look like with mining turtles, or other weird stuff that throws out maximum efficiency by having it adhere to a theme, rather than just the building itself being themed.
this is all very impressive, personally im not a big modpack guy but i like making my own survival modpacks, and one of the mods CREATE i struggle with, and create above and beyond could help me get over that barrier and make create useful in my survival worlds, i know it is a simple mod compared to the rest but still.
I'm genuinely impressed to see your channel grow and improve in quality so much in such a short time, I wish you'd continue gtnh but I understand that the pack got to be a bit too much at that level, thank you for all the effort you put into your content Three!!!
Great video, would love a video on Gregtech even if not perfect
I like to play my own modded version of Minecraft. I've been streaming everyday for the first time. I'm at more than 40 hours and I've barely built my base. I've been trying to make TH-cam videos out of it. I have to wonder how people manage to release videos on a weekly basis when there is so much grinding involved.
The reason why i couldnt finish any modpack is because of the lag, mid to late game always lag the hell out of my base.
Hope that you or anyone can make a video on how to manage lag in modded
I might have said this before but playing with friends may also keep you motivated to play. Don't choose distracting people though. I went from building a new factory in Omnifactory to creating a giant troll face and watching youtube after getting distracted.
But all my friends are distracting 😭
It's really wholesome to see TH-camrs watching each other
skyblock moment
hello igblon absolute chad
Igblon
Im genuinely impressed at the time, effort and courage it takes to not only just start a giant modpack, but record yourself and set challenges for yourself. To be able to do all that AND still edit videos and make them high quality defines you in a light that i would see as no less than amazing. I love your style of editing and your dedication to modded minecraft. Keep up the amazing work Three!!!
Yes! It's great to see someone bring their passions to life and weave them together so well. Good for him! I hope he enjoys it for years to come, so we can keep enjoying his content. And I hope he finds a great balance, so he never gets burned out or feels forced into doing anything like we see happen too often to good YT'ers. I'll stay subbed w/ notifications on no matter what!
Your first world is still far better than mine whenever I play I promise myself that I will build a base, but it always ends the same purely "temporary" setups as far as the eye can see
I've played MC since alpha web browser, and still build little square box houses...haha Not being artistic is rough in games like this when others always do such amazing things!
Lots and lots of trial and error. I always say feel free to copy any of the designs of building ideas in any of my videos. I always love seeing how people adapt the ideas. :D
@bartek Hah! When me and my friends play factorio, I always bring up the old adage: "There's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution." That's one that me and my friends always find relevant to automation games lol
@@Threefold. For me the answer was to stop trying to, I simply enjoy the automation part and no the building part so I just automate underground and build above ground
Grian has some good videos for aesthetics in minecraft. Could be work checking him out. Might also be better to build your base in modules. For me knowing how much space you will need for the rest of the modpack, making it look good, and building it all is overwhelming. Doing a bit at a time could be less overwhelming. Might also be worthwhile to admit when a base isn't working out in a world, starting a new one somewhere else, and them moving all your stuff there.
This is the first time I've come across your channel and woah! I've always been more of a vanilla guy so seeing you go through all your modded bases was a really cool thing to see, and honestly I do think a lot of what you talked about in the video definitely applies to vanilla in a lot of ways. Awesome video dude!
hey tride lol never thought id see you on a minecraft vid
trideMC leak?
Maybe it's just me, but I loved your vanilla collection project base the most. The block palette was the most cut back and subdued, leading to great comfy scenes, the buildings were seperate but connected in with each other, and because of the limitations of no mods I saw you using blocks in more creative ways like trapdoors as walls, the azalea bushes as flooring with the moss and stuff. As always kep up the great work Three!
An absolute amazing video,
You mentioned in the video that at various points there is a step up in quality of video production. In my opinion you can notice in every episode, each episode gets better and better than the last. In terms of editing, building, gameplay in general and quite frankly quality. All your episodes are genuinly a pleasure for me to watch. Even though Inferno isnt my type of pack, I still thoroughly enjoyed watching, I originally came for the minecraft, I am staying for you.
Also I too can't wait for the next Journey!
I've never expected to watch video which solves such first world problem of mine xd
The TCP base is by far your best work aesthetically, and seeing you fit some creative vanilla farms into those spaces was really fun. It's a shame it couldn't be continued, because you are a much better builder than you give yourself credit for.
Just no more limestone please
Three said "I hope to see you here again very shortly" in the gtnh world, just pointing that one out for ya'll.
I really like your videos and have started watching them from the middle of your atm7 playthrough! Although I still haven't understood the concept of base building. Your builds are extremely beautiful and really make me want to continue playing modded minecraft, but I still haven't worked out the basic stuff. How do you do the height variation? How do you work out a good color palette out of hundreds of different blocks that come from different mods? How do you separate the rooms so everything doesn't get clumped up in one space? How do you make every hallway so exiting instead of being extremely linear? And do you like to work with odd or even symmetry lines? I really hope you answer some of these questions and even if you don't I'm really exited for the next mod you're going to take on! Good luck with whatever you're going to take on, as I will always tune in to your videos! Edit: I liked the most your Divine Journey 2 base as it was so HUGE!
Look, I'm not super good but I do have some advice.
1. test in a creative world: look at some of the options you have and look at what you can do.
2. add depth: archways, windowsills, and pillars can add lots of depth to your builds.
3. stick with a theme: try to stay with a theme per area, this can help narrow down ideas that might not fit.
4. look for inspiration: look at art, games, buildings, and other media.
5. take your time: don't rush yourself you've got time.
This is a huge question. Hopefully one day I will be able to consolidate my thoughts on the building process itself in more detail. :)
Usually I start a modpack then see another modpack that I think I would enjoy more, then repeat
The inferno pack was an amazing pack with the colours and your style of building always looks so good, you always seem to know what your gonna do next to progress and it seems so effortless. I tend to build then rebuild to make things work better while trying to automate as much as I can as I go forward. you get 100/10 in my opinion!
Oh there are plenty of times and many hours of building and creative testing before the video, some of which I share. Most of it though, ends up deleted. Don't be discouraged after seeing how easy it seems on video. I always struggle with trying to come up with ideas, it's not an easy thing to do! :D
My main problem is that I enjoy just being in my worlds too much some times. I could move a lot faster if I didn't spend so much time doing literally nothing but watching things I've built actually work.
But then, what's the point in building it and making it look nice if you don't just experience it some times?
Factorio player here. Another term for the factory at 8:07 is a "city block" that’s what we call it
I always waste weeks of my life creating modpacks and getting them to work nice and smooth and then, when I'm actually playing them, I usually just walk around, get killed by something, and don't play them ever again. This video was super helpful, so, Thanks!
I started watching you recently after finding your Divine Journey2 playthrough, which I was looking for as my laptop stopped letting me play modded minecraft when I was in the middle of the pack. Safe to say I have loved every single one of your videos which I have watched and will continue to watch them as long as you continue to make them. This video really makes me want to play again so I'm going to keep having to pretend I'm playing myself through your videos. Thank you for all the effort you put in to make such amazing videos
I've been playing modpakcs since Tekkit back in the day, only packs I've "finished" are Material Energy (either 1 or 2) and Agrarian Skies, got fairly close to finishing Forever Stranded but not quite.
I usually play for a week or so and even if I enjoy the pack a lot, I quickly get tired of the grind, oh I need more X ore for the 100th time or something, spend the next 2 hours mining and looking for it. It's either that or extremely slow automation which happens in some Skyblock packs
Motivation is definetly something i need.
I started watching with you with GTNH and it's really cool seeing how your building style has changed over time. I personally love your Collection Series "base" the best, everything just looks amazing in that world. Looking forward to your next series.
you made a one-off comment at 16:34 about how base design and planning could easily be its own video; i would absolutely love if you wound up making it! i personally find that planning my modded bases is one of my biggest struggles that prevents me from settling into a pack and would really appreciate hearing your thoughts. cheers
y'know honestly, a modpack I've always wanted to complete and finish has got to be sevtech ages, it's a real fun pack that does have some pretty grindy bits but still tries to balance grinding with fights and such, however, the betweenlands has gotta be the most rotten part of that pack, the grind always goes up between the ages, but the requirements from age 2 to age 3 is such a huge jump it really discouraged me so much
This is the first video of yours that I ever saw. I don't know why the algorithm sent you my way but I'm glad it did. Your videos have been wonderful to watch and I'm very impressed. I've been bouncing between watching your 2nd season of GTNH and the backlog of divine journey, and I've thoroughly enjoyed both and will continue to do so as I work through the backlog. Keep up the great work, it's incredibly enjoyed!
Wow, thank you!
I second this
Would love to see that video on base building and planning, as I feel like that’s my biggest issue. I’m TERRIBLE at building, but at the same time I really want an awesome looking base to spend my time in, so I end up losing all motivation.
I quite often did lawn builds & multiple personal made packs. I got pretty deepish into create a&b on a server that i should ask for thr file to compelete it.
I dont have many of my prior packs playable but i think i can scrounge up somw old screenshots which i think i will do.
Thx for some perspective. ❤️
Cool to see creative, tech, & magic.
(From what i seen hope you try hex casting at somepoint)
0:17 2900 Hours of Gregtech
I have yet to complete a Mod pack due to losing motivation. I just left Omnifactory due to the amount of time it would take to finish it and it's hard... But my brother and I are playing StoneBlock 3 and actually almost finished with it already. pretty short pack but one I may actually finish for the first time. This video was helpful with the tips. I'm not much of a base builder but i do love automation. Thank you for providing the content! (would love a Stoneblock series btw ;) )
Really enjoyed your look back at previous series. I found you through looking for help with DJ2, my partner and myself took on the challenge, and even with two of us it may not get finished, although I do really enjoy it! We took a break from DJ2 and basically did play along with you as you went through Inferno, I let my partner deal with Minecolonies, he seemed to enjoy it- I did not. I was quite happy base building and breeding those bees, my bee corridor took direct inspiration from yours. Excited to see where you go next! Love your content.
That's awesome! Co op sounds really fun through those packs :D
@@Threefold. Yeh Co op is good, we work well together generally. He likes the tech and exploration stuff and I like the building/ magic mods more generally although I'm partial to some good storage systems! Honestly, to me, taking on one of these packs alone would be a touch intimidating. Thanks for the response!
I dunno man, the nether brick doesn't look bad at all imo! Liked the video!
Im curious, have you considered playing Sevtech Ages? Why or why not?
Theres just something so boring about spawning in, digging into the side of a mountain and planting magical crops that completely negate the "mine" part of "minecraft". Atleast with quarries, SOMETHING was mining the resources out of the world. With mods like Create, you can make massive world drills that are far more interesting than, say, taming a teal bee and have it make "diamond combs". It seems like with a lot of these modpacks, the end goal is basically to get to creative mode. I don't really find that at all interesting, because then the goal switches from building things because you *should*, to just building things because you *could*, so its still hard for me to complete packs. If I just want to sit in a base and tech up, Satisfactory and Factorio both scratch the itch. Maybe you find it interesting just as a puzzle solving game?
Modded minecraft, most of the time, doesn't give you any validation outside completing objectives for the sake of completing objectives. I almost always make my base near a village, because defending it from raids and hostile mobs is atleast something interesting to do that isn't purely just amassing materials for the hell of it.
I am a non-completer. Only games i've beaten ended around Golden Eye era. GTNH is my favorite pack. I also spend a lot of time in Cataclysm (CDDA)
Oh boy, that didn't age well. 🙈
Love you, man. 😊🤣
threefold saw this comment and in order to protect his video he unburnt himself and HES BACK YAYYY
I can never make these mega bases man, like is usually just lawn bases and such since I don't really care about artistic stuff that much, also can never 100% complete packs because I get bored around end game
Threefood plis active legend PT-BR.
I've been playing modded MC since 2012. There have been countless packs I've never finished. I'd say most. As an INFP I dream of finishing all of these with epic base builds, but I can definitely agree with one of your points that, if you don't like the look of your base, then your motivation for playing is going to drop off. And thats where I fail, 100% of the time. Its just becomes a jumbled mess, I don't know how to improve, and I start to look at everything else as chore. I think if I could emulate your type of builds, the interest would stick around a LOT longer.
So I ask you, PLEASE do a video tutorial on your point of view of base building.
How does one go about building a huge base?
Should we piece it together? How?
Should we lay it out all at once?
How do you literely go about figuring where a room for thaumcraft should be vs mekanism vs your bedroom/livingroom/kitchen(if you have any)? Is it just random?
Is a lot of your base building random? Like, lets throw in a wall/staircase.... here and "see where things go"?
Thank you!!
Next journey :o, is that a technological one mr threefold? :D
this video represents how the modded minecraft for some people are a hole new world every single pack, i really enjoy all of ur series, im here since omnifactory one, and being an spanish speaker whit a really poor english knowledge i really love the simplicity of ur teaching, i hope one day i can do the massives and beutifull structures than u made and hope i can still learn whit u :D
congratz from Chile!
PD: where do u took ur base ideas? i really love the way u build for every single automation u have a design than makes me crazy
and sorry if my phrase doesnt have so much sense, as i say, im spanish speaker whit poor english lessons
I’ve only been here for the last 2 modpacks, but damn… I want to go back and watch them all!❤
okay, new question: how do I complete a modpack when I'm notoriously bad at creating complex structures (base building, automation, you name it)? am I just out of luck?
The Vanilla building is so cool! I've always thought about building my base in the vision of various mods being tied to certain buildings in a village, but I could never justify the logistics of it all. It just sounds like a nightmare. 😭
Oh wow, I didn't even know there are options other than lawn base.
The effort put into this video alone is heartwarming :) This is my first video on your channel, oddly enough, and I am AMAZED at the amount of time you've put in! Your love for the game, and for creating videos for people to enjoy, shows! Much love and wishing you a fantastic 2024.
Are you going to play the new stoneblock id love to see that.
pls make a new journey video when it hits a year later.
20:22 The amount of anxiety this gives me having this in the center of your base in unimaginable
Did you and Lashmak ever agree to do a co-op?
first time watching you and instantly fell in love with your style of content, new sub! :]
gratulations on 25K Subscribers!
#Roadto100K!
Just looking at the difference between your base in season 1 of GT:NH and the current one, wow I love the new base. At one point i remember someone saying that when you finish, your base will become an iconic GT:NH megabase and its so true.
Love you threefold! ❤️
The first big modpack i was getting into the endgame was ATM. I hopped on everyday after work and spent my time exlporing new mods and having fun to figure out how to automate and how difrrent mods work. I even was getting somewhat close to the atm star, until the server I played on resetted the world. It hapend out of nowhere and my motivation sunk in lightnig speed. The promise of the owner to provide us with the world map never got fulfilled so I couldnt even finish what i've begun offline.
I just cant get the same amount of motivaton on offline servers, neither do I want to play on servers anymore after learning how much restriction there exists between diffrent servers.
3:03 i have to strongly disagree there. Netherbrick and stonebrick are a top notch palete combination. In my old Better than wolves run, the nether fortress i centerd my nether operations arround had all the floor replaced by stonebrick and it looks great. I did it for gameplay reasons(in that mod, nether mobs only spawn on netherrack and netherbrick and completely ignore light levels) but i was really happy with the result.
To this day. Better than Wolves is still the most fun i've ever had with minecraft. It's like a hardcore vanilla plus on steroids experience. Like an alternate future of what the game could have become, more centered arround difficult survival mechanics and some interesting automation puzzles that are closer to what now the create mod is doing than the average IC/Buildcraft descendants modded minecraft experience. And it does all of that while taking advantage of vanilla features instead of reinventing the wheel. So you will use water currents to move items and pistons to harvest crops. All the "machines" have to be build in world from simple blocks and be controlled with redstone circuits in a very elegant way. So you play more building rather than in the crafting grid. It's a bit sad that after 11 years of development the author retired without finishing the polish of the end game due to health reasons. But despite not having a final challenge or goal. It's still a great mod and a lot of fun. The community has picked the mantle and it's polishing the few rough edges the author left. So it's even easier to recomend if you want a challenging but fair survival game with lots of care put to it's balance and some interesting and unique gameplay you won't find elsewere.
For myself, the problem is the culpability. I really love playing modded minecraft and put in place complexe machinery but I feel like I don't have enough time with school for doing it. So I'm culpabilising since I have the impression to be inefficient and for not advancing
Honestly your reason for youtube playing, that is, just playing the games, makes it really clear that you're exactly the channel I wanna watch. Like, there's a real feeling of like "You're watching your friend play this game" to it, it's very cozy, in a way, haha. It's earnest gameplay of someone who's having a great time most of the time, and it's fun to sorta share the ups and downs and get to know your bases as you build them. Like, when I rewatch your series, it's always a lot of fun knowing what the end result is and re-seeing how you get there with that finished image in mind. In some, like early Divine Journey, it can really throw you for a loop, haha.
this aged kinda poorly..
why
I've just foundyour channel through this video, and I wish I'd found it sooner. All of my modded bases pale in comparison of size, beauty, and progress to the ones you've shown here. In recent months, I've started to get bored of modpacks very quickly, but seeing these bases has given me inspiration. I tend to speed through the questbook, forgetting to enjoy myself along the way. I end up with a base that consists of a few machines running out of power in a cave, and I give up when I realize I should have been making a proper base. I'm in the middle of a FTB Stoneblock 3 playthough right now, and I think I'll apply some of your advice to my base. Thank you!
Honestly you're a huge inspiration for me going out of my comfort zone in modpacks nowadays, I hope these tips can help me out with Stoneblock 3 that I'm playing currently.
I'd definitely say your Divine Journey 2 base is my favorite one, something about the color palette I love.
Hey there, I came here since the start of your Inferno modpack and I had a blast watching it. I really think you deserve more subs then most people with even 1 milion subs!
I am sure your channel will blossom the more modpacks you do, I love your style of edditing your footage whilst leaving the raw footage on another channel for those interested. Livestreams are a blast as well to watch. The way you explain certain modpacks and on how they work were also easy to follow and led me to play inferno myself too! It really is a blast playing through the pack, I am aiming to get the minecolony to really be self sufficient and fully upgraded to everything tier 5. Like making a whole city as if I would be playing cities skylines or something! hahaha
Keep up the amazing content mate, also love your accent when you talk very relaxing to listen too
RIP Threefold 22/11/2022. You'll be missed.
Ohhh, so that's what happened to TCP. Thanks for the explanation, Three, and don't worry, your decision is totally understandable. This is your job after all and we gotta do what we must to pay the bills. In any case please rest assured that me and the majority of your viewers thoroughly enjoyed the series and recognized how much effort you put into each episode. I personally think it was one of your best and awaited each episode eagerly. Hope you can continue to do TH-cam as long as it's fulfilling to you and remember we'll always be here :)
That is very kind of you! Have an amazing day! :D
For me my favorite one of your base is definitely still DJ2. Because it reminds me of the fun time following through the series from start to end. Modded minecraft is really an awesome game. I think its also one of the few games that I would say its equally fun to watch someone else play as it is to play it ourselves. Sometimes it's even more fun to watch a series simply because some of us really dont have the time to invest on a modpack. Looking forward to more and better series in the future. Been a pleasure to have seen your channel and content progressed since the beginning 😊👍
Hey Soul good to see you here once again. Thanks for your support throughout all the series so far! I agree with you 100% I could watch modded MC all the time, there is something very appealing about it to me. Hopefully we can have many more adventures in the future! Have a good one
Nice Video. I've always asked the question, "How do you play modded minecraft" especially without quests. I always found myself lost on how to start. I took a long break from minecraft literally from 1.12.2 and started back in 1.20.2. I have to re-learn all the new mod packs and how they function. I could never find myself progressing past the early stages because of building. Skyblock has always been my favorite type of modpack due to the fact it has less lag vs generating a whole world. I'm a huge fan of Project Ozone 3 and it sucked that a 4th iteration wasn't created. Now I heard there is a new 1.18 Project No Zone.
Love your series. I’ve been binge watching all of your content. Could you do a AE2 breakdown? I’m having issues even when going back to your old videos
I'm playing DJ2 right now and it's the first time I'm actually building stuff instead of making a lawn base, I'm not very creative so I copied your limestone, basalt base design and modified it abit by adding white blocks, but I really underestimated how much more motivated I am when my base isn't an eyesore to look at
Also after hearing how proud/passionate you are of the collection project I will absolutely give it a watch
I mean its a video game you can stop playing if its not fun anymore
he in fact did
My personal favorite is probably the divine journey 2 base, it's the first mod pack i watch on your channel.
My bases are always lawn bases. Mostly in air so I can put cables at the floor. No walls no roof, just tech.
you're right, its not about finishing the modpack. Its about having fun
"Most difficult modpack"
Me: don't say it..
"Gregtech New Horizons"
Me who is currently crawling thru it: oh god
So what's your favorite pack? I think this video did change how I look at modded, thank you!
Whoa, you beat e2:e in 250hrs? Geez I'm slow! I like to over-engineer all my builds, which takes me a lil while...
(1:50) I see what you did there ;)
I personally have recently moved from Vanilla to modded. Thanks to one of my friends attempting to put together their own "from-scratch" pack. I have always had an inkling for trying it out, but had no real reason to push through, until I came across a series put together by another channel. Then through them I had found you. You were the first time I had ever heard about GT:NH, and I was psyched about trying it out... Until I saw what Greg really did. So I decided to look at the first real pack that I wanted to experience, which is suggested below. All I can say is, thank you for pushing the limits of my comfort to a point that has allowed me to truly motivate myself to experience Modded Minecraft. While you may not be the only one influencing me to play, you are definitely the most collected and calm personality that I have started keeping an eye on.
Keep on playing, but please take breaks when you need them. Notch knows that you'll need it the next time you take on a huge pack. I can't wait to see what you've got going on next!
I have a suggestion for a modpack that I have personally found interesting because it mixes two of my favorite games. 1.12.2's "Feed the Factory" by Vnator (or Vinator, can't remember the proper spelling). It's a Factorio styled pack, mixed for Minecraft. You've got custom recipes, "research packs" and all sorts of high-power automation. The obvious goal is to get the Quantum Research and unlock the things that would allow to basically generate functionally-infinite materials and components. But my personal goal for it, is to be able to request literally anything and make an infinite amount of any research I need. I know that's a rather large goal, but it is a great "completion" goal that works with my mind.
Yeah like a lot of others I found you when you were going through DJ2 to help me get through that pack,
I love your play style and have found a lot of inspiration from your building style as well. Anyways thank you for bringing us these entertaining play throughs, I’m looking forward to seeing what you do next!
Just came across this, i have been a modded player for the past few years and i really love a lot of the packs you made a video about. However, since i have a very low end pc(about 6 gb free ram) i am unable to play most modpacks efficiently which upset me. Are there any low requirement modpacks that anybody can recommend to me? Optionally some not very famous ones as i am already aware of a lot of the popular lite/low end modpacks and either finished or played them. Currently i am playing through divine journey 2 (which somehow is playable) but i doubt that i can go far on that since it started to lag after i had made around 5 chunks load. İt is still very playable since i am getting a decent fps compared to all other modpacks i tried but i believe as i keep progressing and need more loaded chunks at one point it is going to be unplayable.
Definitely giving motivation again. I've always designated DDSS as my "long-term" pack. Due to life, it's been put on hold, but this video definitely reinforces my desire to play it. It's my first real attempt at completing a modpack and actually trying to build, not just have a flat surface.
Thanks again for the video, Three!
You got it Chris! Just take things a step at a time and before you know it you will step back and realise how far you have come. Thanks for watching :D
I've struggled with packs, I want to complete something, anything, but man. It's hard to put my finger on exactly what stops me overall. It's gotten especially frustrating lately because I've found some packs I really like- except for specific quirks that make it so frustrating to progress.
Mechanical Mastery (and MM Plus) really started to click for me, but use of specific mods (and HAVING to use those mods) nuked my motivation. For MM, it was Create (I enjoy create but it can be so clunky to set up that I've started to actively avoid it), and for MM+, it was use of the Admin Shop over ProjectE, because I just find the admin shop so, so much more frustrating to use. There's a relatively new pack called Berseria Sky that I really love the vibe of, but its progression crosses the line of 'somewhat tedious grind' to 'absolutely OBNOXIOUS and unnecessary grind' so far that I really can't bring myself to keep going.
I do think part of my issue is that I'm a chronic 'new world' starter. I drop the pack for a bit, can't remember where I was or what I was doing, so I start over, since I know better ways to progress anyway. It's definitely resulted in me having issues with keeping motivation in pack starts since I play Skyblock almost exclusively for Reasons and a lot of Skyblocks have basically the same start. Staring at Sieves drives me bonkers, and far too many have you grinding out that early sieving for far, far too long. I've considered making a modpack myself, and that's definitely the first thing I want to avoid if I do manage to make one. CobbleForDays is a godsend.
What modpack are you playing that has that ultimate crafting mod at 0:10 ?? also what mod is that? i really wanna check it out!
The clip was from my Omnifactory series, but the modpack has rebranded to Nomifactory. I suggest searching for that, as it's the most up to date. However, to get the most recent versions, definitely play the beta builds of the pack. Details you can find on either my discord or the Nomi discord :)
One of the issue I often face with really hard mod packs that has a big hit to my motivation for pushing to the finish line is performance issues in the end game. With large bases, tons of farm/setups/automations/etc the server always starts lagging behind which lead to a much worse gameplay experience.
Beautiful video, this definitely helped me understand how to achieve goals better! It is about being intentional! Very cool worlds, it looks like you have had many wonderful experiences in Minecraft and I'm super happy for you! :D
That castle looks 10x better than anything I could build
Thanks @Threefold your videos are always interesting, entertaining, and inspiring! I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel!
My favorite base is the FTB Interactions. I am yet to finish the series, but it's pretty awesome already ))
Man I’m in such a tough spot with my modpack because it’s a homebrew I put together four-five years ago just before I started college and I couldn’t keep up with it into my third and fourth years of school. That means I have an unfinished 1.12 pack that is my pride and joy, but have this feeling that I’m missing out not being able to do other packs or 1.16 packs. What do yall think, should I just push through to the end now that I’ve graduated?
I've lost my last minecraft friend in Divine Jorney 2, somewhere on blood magic chapter. Now want to make something big, but I will never have willpower to finish it. Maybe I'm just too old already.
Maybe I'll start from finishing GTNH S2 on this channel.
Just found your channel and it reminded me of all the time I spent on various modpacks, starting from Infitech 2 on 1.7.10 and the pre-fusion chrome grind everytime GT5u shows up (I am so glad with the changes in GT packs moving to GTCE). Your first E2E base is already orders of magnitude more aesthetically pleasing than mine which is basically a 5x5 chunk hole all the way to bedrock. I did not even build ceilings for a large part of the base, just exposed AE cables.
I would say an important factor of motivation that you did not mention is the actual modpack design itself. Certain packs are not very well designed and could in fact lead of higher abundance rate. Personally, I think modpacks should avoid difficulty wall (a sudden unavoidable increase in grindiness/difficulty just to progress) and strive for a smooth curve that ramps up the grinding and difficulty gradually, and reward progression into a new "age" with either a new set of challenges and tools or a much much simpler recipe as the starting point for the new "age" once you started it (basically making the first of an item/machine is difficult but the 2nd and beyond are much easier because of the first).
3 infamous examples of difficulty wall are: the Bronze Best Friend in GT5u, the pre-fusion chrome grind in GT5u (these 2 plagued a lot of GT packs in 1.7.10), and Divine Journey 1 requires millions of obsidian blocks farmed from Mystic Agriculture that would take IRL years even with tick accelerators and top-of-the-line computer hardware (I remember a reddit post calculating this).
On the other hand E2E and Nomnifactory are very well designed and give relatively smooth difficulty curves. They either introduce new elements and mods gradually in the case of E2E, or gives exponentially more efficient recipes of the same item (Transistor-IC-SMD-SoC circuit progression which in fact is based on real world technological progression) in the case of Nomni.
just uninstalled Forever Stranded after like 3 days, I got sad and distressed of how things would take so many steps and many basic ones, like, redstone is primarily obtainable by sifting dust and the process to just getting the dust is another headache, I wished the quests would help me automate these starting things so i could get my head on learning other things, start learning a mod for a quest line, but it didn't. So, i essentially discovered after all that time there was a automatic sifter so i tried making it, I did it, but the migrane that was getting to it was inexplicable, i made 2 machines from thermal expansion, started the engineering one desperately trying to get that damned thing. After getting it and testing, it required way to much power than i had at the moment and it destroyed me. I'll move on to another modpack in search of a fresh start, maybe someday i'll get back to Forever Stranded.
This is a perfect metaphor for fighting depression in real life -- you need that goal in mind!
I have a problem. I'm too dumb for the EXPERT expert modpacks, but i've tried all the baby-easy ones. Which ones could I find that are.. intermediate?-
I love that many of these older modpacks are still getting active updates: GTNH, Omnifactory->Nomifactory, Enigmatica 2: Expert -> Enigmatica 2: Expert - Extended, Divine Journey 2... I just wish that FTB Interactions was still receiving updates, seeing as FTB has turned into a profit hungry corporation, it doesn't make business sense for them to endlessly maintain their own modpacks, so FTB modpacks have a short shelf life.
All points said in the video also apply to every other video game. While most games give you clear objective, sometimes you need to make them yourself. I personaly tried few times to play minecraft modpacks but i always got bored after playing it for a while, i guess it's just not for me. But watching minecraft modpacks is always fun.
My way of playing modpacks is like this:
-Start a world, get familiar with some of the mods (or use the mods you know from previous playthroughs)
-Build some efficient but kinda ugly farms (everything must be efficient and ugly)
-make a whole mess of the base, because there's cables everywhere
-build a solid storage system
-get OP armor and stuff, basically become a god (you have all the items, you're basically invincible)
-get bored, because you basically entered creative mode.
-start a new modpack, get further, because you get better and faster at playing modded minecraft with each playthrough
-get hooked because of some mods (mainly create, thermal expansion combined with extra utilities 2, EnderIO, EvilCraft, Tinker's Construct (but don't use it, just build a smeltery and then use it like 5 times and don't get yourself any armor or tools, even tho you have hundreds of cobalt and ardite).
-get annoyed by some mods (that mod when you have to eat different foods)
-enter peaceful mode (no monsters, no hunger, no distractions)
-repeat previous steps
-get bored
-start a new modpack or continue in old one (or both)
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I'm getting better and better at modded Minecraft, but I'm getting more and more impatient for building. I was never a builder. Once I tried to build something massive in Project Ozone 3, it seemed a bit too ugly, so i quit the modpack. When I don't build in modpacks, I don't get burnt out so easily, because I think that the machines are much more fun than building.
EDIT: You can call all my bases lawn bases. I just want to play with the mods and not get distracted by aesthetics.
For me personally, once I achieve infinite power, resources, and full automation I feel like I completed the modpack. Some packs have an end goal like ATM with the ATM trophy and once I get those I consider it completed. Though I did not get the ATM7TTS trophy before moving on which is always on my mind lol.