The New Generation of Mods – Minecraft Data Packs Explained

Mods have been around since about the beginning of Minecraft you may know of the popular early mods such as too many items and large mods such as Tekkit industrialcraft build craft Twilight forest biomes of plenty mo creatures and of course the either these mods were and some still are the essence of Minecraft

For many people changing the game entirely you may also remember smaller mods such as too much TNT mutant creatures herobrine extreme weather and shapeshifter these mods were also able to offer more to the game while keeping the classic minecraft feel you probably remember when dantdm scott his minecraft and popular MMOs were constantly

Showcasing mods kill him actually will explode even more but he will leave behind all the minecraft experience a pretty heavy decline his community experienced a resurgence in 2019 however what wasn’t recovered was minecraft modding community although new mods exist and are used by many players an example being RL craft the popularity of

Mods has decreased dramatically even after minecraft resurgence before I get into what the new generation of mods can be let’s first quickly cover why the widespread popularity of mods has declined there are many reasons that people believe this has happened a huge reason is that mods often had to be

Rewritten after each update especially after 1.8 1.9 and 1.13 this has slowed the modding community and discouraged many people from creating more mods another reason is that the popularity of its usage declined with improvements to command blocks command blocks became more powerful as more people learned how to use them and

Certain commands especially command such as slash execute or improved command blocks made him more popular for people to create maps with custom items textures and abilities and fewer people were looking to mods as their answer a final reason I can think of is that mods were added to the game partially as a

Response to boredom at the monotony of the game however Minecrafts community after its return is experiencing minecraft as a brand new game so people aren’t getting bored with it yet combined with the very good recent updates and this means that the demand for mods to make the game less boring is

Relatively low now let’s get to the new generation of mods in July of 2018 when minecraft 1.13 was released a feature was released which snuck by most players and that feature was the addition of data packs at first nobody really did anything with them but over time people

Were able to create more and more advanced data packs with the growth of its small community now many data packs which are a lot easier to make than mods have capabilities matching many medium sized mods data packs are an amazing addition to the game which more people need to be

Aware of and due to a slower skill required to make one it’s an addition which more people should be directly involved with when I talk to my friends in my school who play Minecraft none of them knew what a data pack was and they all thought it was just a mod I’m here

To explain what data packs really are how easy they are to make the differences between data packs and mods and how data packs could potentially be the new generation of minecraft mods what data packs are for data packs or folder which can be dragged into a data

Packs folder inside of a Minecraft world I have videos on how to create and install the data pack it’s very simple inside of data packs they can change a variety of things such as loot tables structures crafting recipes advancements and most importantly can add function files blue tables are what determine the

Output of items when a test in a structure such as a dungeon is open or when a mob is killed structures are things like desert temples crafting recipes are the recipes that items require in crafting tables to be made custom advancements can be created to be awarded to players who complete some

Sort of specified objective this also a feature called predicates added in 1.15 which makes it easier to detect certain things not detected by NBT data function files are files which hold large groups of commands together from the main loop file other function files can be called the amazing thing about function files

Is that they use normal minecraft commands which means that a basic knowledge of commands can lead to a day to pack in minute although it may seem limited just having a few function files in a data pack combined with a nice resource pack to change the look of things can lead to

Amazing creation such as fully functioning tanks custom mobs a fully functioning magic wand that shoots fireballs and even a new dimension how easy they are to make unlike mods the creation of data packs requires no knowledge of a real coding language such as Java instead online resources and the default minecraft

Commands are all you need to create a data pack you just need a text editor which is already built into most computer systems no extensive setup means that you can create a data pack in fewer than 10 minutes also the community for creating data packs is growing and

There are others to help you namely the subreddit R / minecraft commands the data pack Center and my discordant server I also have a decent and growing selection of tutorials on my channel some other youtubers with really good tutorials are cloud wolf as the main one and also Blu commander code zealot and

Bronn gas 201 4 even if you don’t have any previous command experience or find it hard to work with commands you could still give data pack region a try by joining a community as many people would be happy to help you data packs vs. mods data packs and mods both have their

Place but they have very large differences I will organize these into groups and hopefully show you how different these two are because many people do not understand the difference and this is part of the reason why data packs are so not well known I’m gonna organize these so here is a chart to

Show you the differences and let’s get right into it so first of all to create mods it requires lots of setup there are multiple applications that you need to download from online and there are workspaces within those applications that you need to set up on the other

Hand data packs just have a couple folders and text files that you should be able to make without downloading anything also mods need to have installers which install to the client only what this means is that everyone who wants to use the mod must be able to

Go online and download it onto their own version of Minecraft playing on a modded server means everyone on the server must have been able to download the mod themselves on the other hand data packs are installed into the world folder so only the owner of the world or the server needs to

Install it and everyone else can join without doing anything themselves this makes it much more accessible for more people to use mods also require an actual coding language like Java meaning that it is much harder to get started modding data packs on the other hand just need normal minecraft commands and

A few optional extra things that can be quickly generated online there’s a large difference in power between mods and data packs mods have practically infinite power only limited by the computer system it’s running on data packs however have more limited power as they cannot make something appear that’s

Impossible for the game to calculate as it is because it’s limited by what is hard-coded into the game mods also don’t have too many online helpers to create them the only useful one I could find it being MC creator data packs however have many online helpers especially since the

Files that data packs use are all basic text files that need to be readable by the game which can be easily generated online mods are slow to update as I mentioned before as I have to undergo major changes between certain versions of the game with data packs they have

Been able to update very quickly recently this is also part of the reason that mods have a declining community because old mods are not being updated and people are not really making new ones data packs on the other hand have a growing community due to how easy it is

To get into it although mods have been a big part of minecraft a new sustainable community must take its place as its community declines data packs which are much more inviting to players should gain more popularity as they’re more likely to have a larger community in the

Future if more people pick up data packs the minecraft community will be able to spice up the game and keep it alive a while longer as more people start creating data packs hopefully the modding community can be restored partially along with it as more people become interested in changing the game

If you have never made a data pack before I highly suggest that you try it out as creating data packs can be very fun satisfying and rewarding once you get a finished product I would appreciate if you could share this video and get more people into creating data

Packs in general and I bet the growing data pack community would appreciate it too if you are new to data packs are interested in making them I think you would enjoy a lot of the other content I have as I post lots of tutorials and content relating to data packs

I have tutorials on how to make your own custom items with cool functionality and models and I have made in showcase many cool data packs myself I also started a data pack Challenge series where I released some sort of topic this past month was explosives and you can

Practice to try make any sort of data fact relating to that topic it could be anything as simple as one custom item or something as large as multiple items related to a boss that you summon using special crafting items that you get from other mobs that you create so it can

Really be anything and if you want to get started that’s a good way to practice thanks for watching this video and I hope that you give datapack creation a shot if you haven’t already or if you have friends that don’t understand what data packs are or the difference between data packs and mods

It would be great if you could share this video and spread the general knowledge of the usefulness of data packs and hopefully bring more people into creating them