Master Builder Biome & Visual Mods: The Best Mods in Minecraft®™

By Triumph Books

Experience the best mods in Minecraft®™ with Master Builder Biome & Visual Mods. Completely change the way you see your world with new and improved biomes and game graphics. From Biomes o’ Plenty and OceanCraft to Better Foliage and The Shader Mods, Biome & Visual Mods contains vital information on 10 different mods certain to transform your Minecraft®™ into a more diverse and aesthetically pleasing world. You’ll also learn how to install your mods and explore the various types of mods so that you can find exactly the kind of game play you desire.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Triumph Books
• Release date: Apr 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781633195714

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Contents

The Many Kinds Of Mods

How To Install Your Mods

Land & Biome Design Mods

Visual Mods

The Many Kinds Of Mods

When someone makes a mod, they’re actually going in and writing computer code to make changes to the game, which then needs to be loaded into the game’s regular code. Because of this, mods can vary greatly in all respects, from how many changes they make and how big those changes are, to how big the files in the mod are and how they get loaded into the game’s normal code.

There are tech mods that make Minecraft a world of extreme automation (image by Drullkus)

It’s useful when getting an idea of how mods work, what they can do for your game, and just generally what mods are out there to separate them into different categories. We’ve done this in three different ways to help introduce you to the world of mods, first by breaking them into sizes, giving each mod a complexity rating, and also by separating into categories by what they add. There are almost as many types of mods as there are mods themselves (of which there are thousands), and the lines can blur for some between the categories (like Thaumcraft, which adds items but does enough with systems to be included in that category) but most of them fit under one or more of these definitions:

And then there are mods that are all about plain fun and adding in cool things from other universes, like the Pixelmon mod seen here.

Mods of Different Sizes

Size is an important factor when it comes to mods, because a mod’s size typically determines two things that players need to know: how difficult the mod will be to install, and how much it will change the vanilla game. How much it changes the game is something that matters quite a lot. Sometimes players are looking to change the entirety of their game, while others just want a little tweak. This is even more important when trying to mix various mods together in one game, something we’ll talk about more in the next chapter.

BubbaDogface, the writer of this book’s trusty Minecraft pup, owes his name and ability to be a Creeper hunter to a small mod called Doggy Talents. Isn’t he a cute little dogface?

The sizes of mods:

Tiny mods: Tiny mods are ones that make minimal, barely noticeable additions or changes to the game. Utility mods are often tiny mods, adding just a