Looking for: Advice and Help setting up a 1.6 modded server and community

[Bohne]

Hello!

I wish to start a server with a custom 1.6 modpack that is ftb-like but has ist own unique feel to it. I do have the dedicated server (with more then enough resources) for it and the knowledge to set it all up, including comms and a website but I have no experience in makeing a server and or a modpack successful.

It is of particular interest to me that this will be not one of those "fire and forget" servers that have a thousand applications, a hundred people playing an hour or two and ten days of total runtime until it vanishes.

I would appreciate any help and advice you could give me as to how to advertice it, how to manage it and maybe would like to share the process of creating all that with someone else experienced enough.

Also I wonder what would be the best way to distribute the modpack so it works with the new vanilla launcher. I was thinking to modify the oss forge installer, do you think that makes sense?

Thank you!

 

[KnightOwl]

First off.. do you have permission to redistribute each individual mod you are using? Without this permission you cannot redistribute the mods. You can create a list of mods that people can manually download themselves but that's it.

 

[Bohne]

I am aware of the natural right of a mod beloning to its programmer and do not mean to impede on that. I was specifically looking on every mods thread to determine the permission and have a few requests open that I will certainly respect.

I do not want to put the work of downloading a lot of mods (and keeping them up to date) in everyone's hand. It's just to much work. If everything else fails I will make my own installer (maybe based on a version control software - I hear mercurial is good in managing binaries).