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Rainy20

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Hi all,

I'm asking for some advice on a modpack for my nephew. His 12 years old and has been playing minecraft vanilla for a few years. The last few times his been round my house he has seen me playing Minecraft with mods and he has always been amazed at the additions these mods bring to the game. The problem I have with him using mods is that he lives 300 miles away from me so I'm not around to teach him the mods. Is there a recommended mod pack preferably with a quest book that is good at teaching people the mods and using them together? I know there are many packs with quests but they are all mainly aimed at people who already have a good grasp on playing modded minecraft.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
I have yet to see a truly good "tutorial" HQM pack... Most pack creators like to futz with recipes for pack flavor until you cannot call the mods original any more.

My tired old advice is the same as always. Perhaps try Direwolf20's pack... it comes with a Let's Play YouTube series (current version just ended this week, 121 episodes I believe) that is run like a tutorial, plus you can generally follow many of the mod developers on the Forgecraft II server if you like seeing new potential features and packs.
 
The Modpack Index is also a fairly neat little resource for finding modpacks (by no means all-encompassing) that contain specific mods that interest you. Just create a list of tags or mods that you want to search against and it will show you a list of matches. You can even do side-by-side comparisons of packs if you want.
 
'Bee Happy' is a HQM pack focused entirely on bee mechanics.

Other than that pick mods with intuitive mechanics and that provide visual feedback on whats happening;
Buildcraft, Botania, Rotarycraft, Chromaticraft, Tinkers Construct are a few of my favourites.​
Minefactory Reloaded, Thermal expansion/dynamics, BigReactors ect are fairly noob friendly, though I'm not overly familiar with them myself.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions peeps, I'll have a look through the mod packs and see what I can find.
 
I actually started learning from Iskandar's Modded Minecraft series. I'd suggest something like Buildcentric. Nothing so heavy it's going to turn him off Minecraft like Rotary or Industrialcraft.

VanillaPlus might be a good starting point, though Spice of Life is in and makes it a pain in the neck. Mostly just give him a tutorial on how to use NEI and he's likely to figure the rest out himself.
 
Senseidragon said:
I know @ShneekeyTheLost had a lightweight pack for 1.6.4 that was pretty newbie-friendly, but I don't know if that ever got updated or HQM-ified.
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It almost got updated, but it never got HQMified. I was planning on doing so, but then life happened. And then Microsoft happened. These days, I just don't have the hours it would take to update and push it live, and I don't have the damns to give about publishing a solid modpack any more. So, because I absolutely refuse to turn out a half-assed product, odds are highly doubtful that anything else will ever come of that.

But should it ever happen... there's a problem with tutorial packs. People play the tutorial once, maybe, or more often just skip it. Pack downloads were anemic at best when it was out originally, and nothing has really changed to make that any less true of any sort of tutorial pack I might put out in the future. I used to make packs because I thought people enjoyed them. A month goes by with zero downloads... not much of a point left in doing it.
 
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