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styling of buttons and usually a change in fonts, although this does depend on the
contents of the pack.
7.
Press
Esc
to return to the game. (There's no need to go back through all the
menus.)
8.
Voilà! You've just installed your first resource pack.
Now,acaveat. There'salotofconfusinginformation insomeofthedownloads.You'llsee
references to MCPatcher and Optifine, complex file paths, and more. You can feel free to
ignore these. They're old news, left over from earlier versions of Minecraft.
Caution:
Beware the Pop-Ups
Downloading resource packs, and mods for that matter, can be a tricky
business.Mostcreators trytomakesomefundsfromtheirefforts,which
is no problem at all—they've often put thousands of hours into
them—but it does lead to one of those first world problems: pop-ups.
You can quickly become lost in a sea of spring-loaded pages, inter-
spersed misleading download buttons, strange captcha entries, and, at
times, downright duplicity. Unfortunately, there's no real way around
this. Websites such as AdFly and MediaFire offer a way for the creators
to make a bit of a return for their efforts, at the expense of forcing ad-
viewsoneveryonedownloadingthatpack.Pop-upblockersprovidevar-
ied results, sometimes working, other times preventing the download
from taking place. Just take care out there, never enter your credit card
details, and watch out for misleading links.
Mind My Mods
Mods are the marvel of Minecraft because they can change almost every aspect of the
game. Fancy the ability to fire arrows that explode on impact like a block of TNT? Why,
certainly. Want a radar that shows every nearby mob overlaid on a map? No problem. Ex-
plored your way through every biome there is and, gosh, just want a bit more variety?
There's a mod for that, too, and it can generate worlds of fantastic variety.
So what, exactly, is a mod?
In a word, programming. Mods change the way Minecraft works by replacing parts of
Minecraft's own program code with their own routines, and by adding additional function-
ality that goes beyond the original program's design. And herein lies the danger. Mods are
the equivalent of the Wild West living within the ordered confines of Minecraft's civilized
releases. They are not officially supported by Mojang, and every time a new version, or
