Minecraft with a resource pack, a shader and Optifine I also went and grabbed a couple of random shaders and some texture packs, ranging from 16×16 packs to a couple of fancy 128×128 resource packs (frankly the 512×512 texture packs are a bit too silly), and started experimenting. Just make sure you click on the right download button.īut the ever vigilant person that I am (aside from when I have plastic cups of diet cola), I went and installed Optifine for Minecraft 1.12.2 (the version that I have Forge and Pixelmon Reforged installed) and Minecraft 1.14, the newest compatible version. Texture packs on the other hand are fine. Most Minecraft mods tend to be stuck behind annoying ‘adfly’ pages which want you to watch an advert before actually taking you to a link. bsa files which are only really tied to Bethesda games, while Java has a far larger range.

jar files, you have to be extra vigilant – the majority of Skyrim mods tend to be somewhat safe (even if they are dubious in quality) because you’re often only downloading. Unlike Skyrim though, there aren’t a handful of places where you can get all your mods from, like the Steam Workshop or Nexus Mods, Minecraft downloads have always been a bit all over the place, and since you’re downloading. All of which can be as easy or as hard to install, just like Skyrim, and require you to read instructions carefully. Why Minecraft? Because Minecraft is as mod-able, if not more mod-able than Skyrim, and also has a billion different mods and texture packs. And somehow, after skipping over things like Warframe and Destiny 2, I ended up looking into Minecraft. While my first choice was to max out the graphics in Skyrim, after realizing that I’d have to mess around setting up Mod Organizer and building a new mod setup again, I decided to see what other games I could add shaders and stuff to. Now that I have a computer that isn’t completely shit (and has a working keyboard), I’ve been able to try upping the graphics on a lot of the games I play.

Minecraft shader and texture pack