Hey all,
My wife and I have been watching CaseOh play the From The Fog Minecraft mod for the past week or so, and it has gotten her very interested in picking up Minecraft. She wants to jump right in and play similar horror mods. She has previous experience in gaming with picking up games very quickly and getting obsessed for days on end.
A brief summary of the games she likes: First, I introduced her to games with the Pokemon series and Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch.
She also 100 percented Stardew Valley and latched on to Story of Seasons as well. Next she blazed through both of the Dragon Quest Builders games and enjoyed them immensely.
She played through all of Dragon Quest XI, but stopped on the final boss. Next was her Roblox phase, mostly playing Grow A Garden, which I was able to interrupt briefly with a few weeks of Fallout 4. Lately, she has been playing Sims 4.
As you can see, she likes games with building, character customization, crafting, exploration, and a cutesy aesthetic.
What would be the best way to get her feet wet with Minecraft? If I buy the Standard collection, am I able to upgrade to the Deluxe and Ultimate collection easily? Or should I just jump into one of those two upgrades? Are they necessary or recommended to play high-level mods?
Thanks for everyone’s advice in advance. 
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If you’re playing Java edition (which has all the mod support) I see no need to get any of the upsell editions which seem to just be for bedrock which is the corpo micro-transaction minecraft.
The Java edition is the real Minecraft, and is the Minecraft all the mods and modpacks are made for. I bought Minecraft long before mikkkro$$lop acquired it, but looking at their site now, the standard collection includes the Java edition, which is all you actually need.
The usual way to play modded Minecraft is to use a third party launcher which automatically handles the whole process because the usual way that modding works in minecraft is community made modpacks rather than you individually choosing and installing each mod. The launcher I’ve used most is ATLauncher. It looks like the pack this CaseOh guy is playing is “From the Fog Reimagined” which is available in ATLauncher.
Cheap pack is fine, if console your stuck with bedrock with a curated selection of mods. I know very little about the console versio
If pc, java over bedrock forever and ever. Prism launcher will help with installation of modpacks in all flavours and have ok modpack discovery tools so i recommend using that
Gl minecraft (java) modpacks go crazy from the horror packs you described to factorio type automation packs to fantasy rpg game packs to pokemon packs to stardew valley farming sim packs. Have fun!
We’re definitely on PC for the purposes of Minecraft.
My wife is pretty much fully a PC gamer now and will hardly touch the Switch, even though that’s what she started out with just a few years ago during COVID.
aight yeah, youll wanna get https://prismlauncher.org/
once youve bought minecraft, youll have to sign in/ connect your account with the launcher and use add instance to get mod packs or just setup plain minecraft. i happen to use prism but theres quite a few other launchers that exist that do the same shit, allow you to have multiple minecraft instances plain, modded1, modded2 etc all nicely organized n headache free
Just did the purchase, download, and install of Minecraft as well as downloading and installing prismlauncher.
So just to fully understand, I’m using the prism launcher for ease of access to download mods and other improvements over just using the default Minecraft launcher?
Yeah exactly, you wont have to use the default minecraft launcher at all. Youll have to sign in to your minecraft acc inside the prism launcher so it can grab minecraft itself, once thats done it fully replaces the default launcher
Might take a bit of fiddling to familiarise yourself with it but its pretty simple once you know what buttons do which
how is prism over modrinth? I’ve recently returned to MC and modrinth has been stupid easy to get mods installed
prism can download mods straight from modrinth and curseforge etc in the launcher
not entirely sure. i downloaded n installed it to see whats different between the two, but it isnt starting so biggest thing i guess is prism will run on prehistoric hardware and modrinth wont. i do know that prism has modrinth as one of its mod repos but im not sure if their app is exclusive to their repo or like prism can pull from curseforge and ftb repos as well
get java edition
no one gonna talk about Luanti? for shame
The paid dlc for bedrock is trash. If you’re modding, you’ll be on PC, and Java is definitely the best experience there.
Bedrock is genuinely trash. I don’t know if they’re not allowed to look at the Java code but bedrock doesn’t have hardcore mode because players randomly die from the game being bugged and there’s like 100s of videos of this happening. The only thing it has is cross-play but there are controller mods for minecraft.
She likes Pokémon. Cobblemon maybe?
Minecraft has Deluxe and Ultimate editions now? Wtf
