My last 1.7 world died back a while ago, and a break from Minecraft ensued. This is par for the course, and a pattern I've come to expect, particularly given the ancient potato I run on, so after a brief mourning period, I've once again begun dabbling in the creation of a new pack.
Here's the rub: I'm torn between using the plethora of stable 1.7 mods that I know I can make function and the shiny new 1.10 mods that may be technically out of reach for me. I've gone so far as to make a 1.10 pack on my own, but a few mods in particular made it run slower than cold molasses up hill. I downloaded HermitCraft the other night, but performance was less than optimal. I'm planning a bare-bones test pack to see if I can coax my system into running 1.10 at all, but if I can get it up and going, are the new mods transcendent enough to justify the move?
On the other hand, 1.7 works. I know my FPS will never be great (a 35 average is peak performance if I'm not using an outside server), and I've grown to accept that. The real draw back to 1.7 is the simple creature comforts and aesthetic mods that either haven't been ported forward yet or have fallen by the wayside. I know Chisel'n'Bits is 1.10 ready, and I'm excited to see what I can do with it, so again I'm fencesitting.
I turn to the community for thoughts on the current state of things and to see where people are playing now. This will likely be a SSP world, but if I badger a friend a bit (OK, just tell him to do it) I can probably have a server set up to unload some of my strain. Now that I've written that, I realize I'm not sure where to procure the server files for a 1.10 world, so if that knowledge is available please advise.
Note: The poll has no choices between 1.7 and 1.10. if anyone has compelling reason to choose a version in between, I'll consider updating it.
Here's the rub: I'm torn between using the plethora of stable 1.7 mods that I know I can make function and the shiny new 1.10 mods that may be technically out of reach for me. I've gone so far as to make a 1.10 pack on my own, but a few mods in particular made it run slower than cold molasses up hill. I downloaded HermitCraft the other night, but performance was less than optimal. I'm planning a bare-bones test pack to see if I can coax my system into running 1.10 at all, but if I can get it up and going, are the new mods transcendent enough to justify the move?
On the other hand, 1.7 works. I know my FPS will never be great (a 35 average is peak performance if I'm not using an outside server), and I've grown to accept that. The real draw back to 1.7 is the simple creature comforts and aesthetic mods that either haven't been ported forward yet or have fallen by the wayside. I know Chisel'n'Bits is 1.10 ready, and I'm excited to see what I can do with it, so again I'm fencesitting.
I turn to the community for thoughts on the current state of things and to see where people are playing now. This will likely be a SSP world, but if I badger a friend a bit (OK, just tell him to do it) I can probably have a server set up to unload some of my strain. Now that I've written that, I realize I'm not sure where to procure the server files for a 1.10 world, so if that knowledge is available please advise.
Note: The poll has no choices between 1.7 and 1.10. if anyone has compelling reason to choose a version in between, I'll consider updating it.
) but I've got no spring chicken myself although it's no slouch (AMD 8350 @ 4GHz/8GB ram on Win 10).
