The New Generation of Mods - Minecraft Data Packs Explained

Data packs are a feature in Minecraft that not enough people take full advantage of, and it is also something which many people do not understand. Data packs are often confused with mods. In this video, I explain what data packs are and how they compare to mods, and I can hopefully bring more people into creating data packs.

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If you have never tried creating a data pack yourself, please give it a try, you might enjoy adding amazing things into the game, and it is a lot easier than many people think. I have many tutorials which can get you started very quickly.

If you already create data packs and have friends who don't understand what they are or they confuse them with mods, try to convince them to try making data packs and get more people into this unique side of Minecraft.

Last thing - this video is not meant to discourage people from making mods, but is meant more for encouraging those who are intimidated by the complexities of mod making to first try creating data packs so that more people get into making changes to the game through data packs first, and to get rid of the idea that changing the game by adding your own items, mobs, vehicles, or other things is hard. This is meant for the people like those whom I have talked to who have thought that mods and data packs were the same thing, and therefore wouldn't go near it or even give it a chance.

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[TimberForge]

I know this isn't a tutorial or the next data pack challenge, but I really wanted to make this video just because of the amount of people who didn't know what a data pack was, and there was no video explaining what a data pack was that I could give people without just giving them a tutorial on how to make one. Upcoming videos I have are a continuation of the Let's Code series by making items and weapons from the Mandalorian, and the next data pack challenge video.

[Vampiric_Kai]

I really don't think the modding community is dying. There are ton of mods that are replacing the old non updating mods. Alot of them are even better than their predecessors. Another thing is that people aren't looking it up as much because people already know about modding. Thus, less searches. This happened to minecraft as well

[boid]

4:10

"Datapacks basically use Minecraft's commands in-game."
. . .
Looks like the learning curve is much, Much more achievable than I imagined.

[sodapops]

i just have to say THANK YOU for putting timestamps. i like how you don't really care about watch time, you could become a huge YouTuber if you stick to this for the long game

[ambiennt]

Really interesting and detailed video— youre an underrated youtuber. Subbed :)

[textture]

while creation of new mods is down for the various reason stated here is generally correct in my opinion.

however the "modpack" scene is really been picking up lately, "feed the beast" and other various connect modpack making groups are all very active on Reddit and discord, the advent of the twitch launcher that supports a very large amount of mods all in one place and new and still developing solutions like "fabric" pave the way for new mod creations to come

interesting to think about is that a lot of modpacks tweak the individual mods so much that they for all intents and purposes could be call new mods outright, stuff like getting different energy mods working TOGETHER or tinkers tools which gets individual additions for each pack that gives unique ores that arent in other packs

[enziogarcia]

Thank you so much for making this video! I just started getting back into minecraft with an interest for technical details. You are the only video explaining what data packs are and giving proper context in relation to mods.

[Setryyk]

Great video! I've been getting into datapacks and there's a *lot* to learn. Thanks for the tutorials as well. You're one of the most informative datapack creation Youtubers I've come across.

[Gatinbr]

Thank you so much!
I was looking whu they didn't use the word "mod" for modding as much but were using "data pack" and i didn't find anything as in depth as your video!
Nice work my dude.

[ASUS.ROG.DREAMERS]

I love both of them with Minecraft experience like Mods packs, Data Packs, and Add-on pack (Addon only on Pocket and Bedrock edition)

[MrHowToMinecraft]

Wow! This was really well made, excellent job mate!

[sad_man]

I was looking at making a mod but what I want is to make new biomes so a datapack might be better. But one thing I've noticed is that you can't add your own biomes to the vanilla biomes, you can only overwrite them or make a whole new dimension. What I want mojang to do is make it where a biome is one file, and I can just put it into a datapack and it will generate along with the vanilla biomes. Once something like that happens I'll start making it.

[ferservo]

I've barely seen 3 minutes of the video and I already know that I'm about to learn a lot thanks to your capacity for synthesis that you achieved in that intro

[umbreonben]

Thank you very much!
This is a very good video - no foreshadowing no talking around stuff. It's straight to the point, informative and you seem very cool. Thank you, really.

[holyirishpotato]

Datapacks, as they are, are still far more confined than mods. With mods you can create nice looking, clean models, datapacks still aren't there yet. Also the modding community is still going strong and many more are still being created and updated. Also with datapacks you have to download them on each world folder you make, with mods you just put them in the folder and all your world's have them. Overall I still see mods as the future of modifying Minecraft over datapacks.

[alexsimpson]

as someone who has constantly played with mods for years, yeah I believe a big reason has to do with updates. Alot of the classic mods that offered so much are usually confined to updates 1.7.10 or 1.12.2. I think however, the mod scene has started to uplift again with the introduction of fabric and just generally new good mods like Create for example. dunno we will see ig

[massivebrosive]

5:10 hey thats me playing FF 14!! this video was very well written, only now recently do i have time to really explore datapacks again, nice to see youre getting better at these videos, looking forward to more!

[Lia-ksmg]

man, YOU ROCK thank you so much for this video!!!! and sure I will share!!

[xiori]

Just what I needed. I was clueless, but this helped. Thanks

[astrixistheman]

I will have to try this “data pack”. As a spigot dev its gonna be quite a change i think.