Hello! I want to make a (private) modpack for my brother and I to play on. Our PC's are both pretty bad (4 Gigs of ram in total, 2 gigs for Minecraft). I thinking about 1.6.4 or 1.7.10 but my brother likes later Minecraft releases. He wants 1.12.2, 1.14.4 or 1.15.1/2. What version should I do?
I'm thinking you should go somewhere around 1.12.2 as most mods seem to be around that version. Any higher up will make the game lag with your ram and lower wouldn't have a lot of the current vanilla items.
It depends on the mods and performance. 4GB is just above 3GB as the highest for 32bit systems so it's not too bad, but while you don't need 4GB of RAM for Minecraft Vanilla 1.13+ it is recommended and Modded with Forge for 1.13+ definitely I'd recommended it as even though I do mod spotlights I notice it and the mods loaded are the cause not the worlds as they are all newly created each time, Fabric maybe but as it's lightweight not so much does it use up RAM unless you have like 100s of mods like you'd expect with 1.10.2/1.12.2 or so I'd say (and Fabric modpacks are best to get from YouTube or my Forum threads in my signature as Curseforge doesn't support Fabric, only mods that are for Fabric are on curseforge for hosting them Grr.).
I use 2GB for Minecraft in every version, I only increase it when I cover modpacks that are big.
If you want mainstream/best versions 1.7.10 or 1.12.2 have tons of modpacks and mods and many still being made. I myself enjoy the more in-between versions like 1.10.2, 1.12.2+ gets very big, and 1.7.10 is good if you want big but not as much performance considerations as 1.12.2, 1.10.2 is a good balance of the mainstream evolving towards 1.12.2/and niche mods (one of my favourite versions I've used modded) you'd see on 1.12.2, but 1.12.2 can be performance hungry although with 1.8 to 1.12.2, performance did increase a bit to recommendation of at least 2GB of RAM (noticeable with 1GB and trying to play with even a small custom made modpack).
I'd say check the mods or modpacks themselves that your interested in and if they come under a certain version go for it. Mods are important, modpacks are just a collection of mods after all so 100s is pointless if you can't run it or don't end up using 90% of the mods included. Or you could make your own and select a few mods that way you manage it better based on content, fun factor, performance and more.
Obviously as I don't know the type of mods or modpacks your into I can't recommend any but if you like exploration, magic, tech or Vanilla+ for example then look in those areas, or lightweight modpacks, and if you want specific content in a mod but not the other you don't use then go for more smaller or niche mods that do similar as the mainstream mods are great but do add a lot of stuff you may never use so that's why I recommended alternatives that may do 1 thing really well over adding too much content.
Hello! I want to make a (private) modpack for my brother and I to play on. Our PC's are both pretty bad (4 Gigs of ram in total, 2 gigs for Minecraft). I thinking about 1.6.4 or 1.7.10 but my brother likes later Minecraft releases. He wants 1.12.2, 1.14.4 or 1.15.1/2. What version should I do?
I'm thinking you should go somewhere around 1.12.2 as most mods seem to be around that version. Any higher up will make the game lag with your ram and lower wouldn't have a lot of the current vanilla items.
It depends on the mods and performance. 4GB is just above 3GB as the highest for 32bit systems so it's not too bad, but while you don't need 4GB of RAM for Minecraft Vanilla 1.13+ it is recommended and Modded with Forge for 1.13+ definitely I'd recommended it as even though I do mod spotlights I notice it and the mods loaded are the cause not the worlds as they are all newly created each time, Fabric maybe but as it's lightweight not so much does it use up RAM unless you have like 100s of mods like you'd expect with 1.10.2/1.12.2 or so I'd say (and Fabric modpacks are best to get from YouTube or my Forum threads in my signature as Curseforge doesn't support Fabric, only mods that are for Fabric are on curseforge for hosting them Grr.).
I use 2GB for Minecraft in every version, I only increase it when I cover modpacks that are big.
If you want mainstream/best versions 1.7.10 or 1.12.2 have tons of modpacks and mods and many still being made. I myself enjoy the more in-between versions like 1.10.2, 1.12.2+ gets very big, and 1.7.10 is good if you want big but not as much performance considerations as 1.12.2, 1.10.2 is a good balance of the mainstream evolving towards 1.12.2/and niche mods (one of my favourite versions I've used modded) you'd see on 1.12.2, but 1.12.2 can be performance hungry although with 1.8 to 1.12.2, performance did increase a bit to recommendation of at least 2GB of RAM (noticeable with 1GB and trying to play with even a small custom made modpack).
I'd say check the mods or modpacks themselves that your interested in and if they come under a certain version go for it. Mods are important, modpacks are just a collection of mods after all so 100s is pointless if you can't run it or don't end up using 90% of the mods included. Or you could make your own and select a few mods that way you manage it better based on content, fun factor, performance and more.
Obviously as I don't know the type of mods or modpacks your into I can't recommend any but if you like exploration, magic, tech or Vanilla+ for example then look in those areas, or lightweight modpacks, and if you want specific content in a mod but not the other you don't use then go for more smaller or niche mods that do similar as the mainstream mods are great but do add a lot of stuff you may never use so that's why I recommended alternatives that may do 1 thing really well over adding too much content.
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Also if you don't know I mean 4 gigs of ram in total. We use 2 gigs of it for MC.
For me the best version for the minecraft mods is the 1.12.2
1.12.2 really is the sweet spot for everything, imo, except performance; This can, however, be remedied with things like VanillaFix and BetterFPS.
1.12.2 has *everything*, and you can even add most of what's available in later versions w/mods.