I’ve always liked doing tasks in Minecaft, but as of recently, it seemed like it was really tedious to do the same stuff over and over again. For example, let’s say that you have a massive farming operation going on. Sure, you can automate the breaking process by adding pistons underneath the dirt block the crops are on, but harvesting and sorting is still manual, unless you take advantage of the new droppers that were added into the game. The problem with this, however, is that transporting the crops from one place to another can still be a pain.
Thanks to the buildcraft mod, this is no longer and issue. This building and construction mod allows you to take advantage of several different types of blocks which ultimately allow you to automate various tasks. In addition to that, this mod also allows you to connect the devices to pipes, meaning that the transportation of materials is no longer a hard task. It doesn’t stop there, however. If you’re really good, you can put the pipes through a sorter, meaning that you can separate different materials to different pipes, allowing for better sorting, and different routes for different materials.
This can be useful for those mining and farming operations you have that might be right next to each other. Instead of wasting more resources, you can make it so all the materials harvested go to the same pipe, and then sort it from there. This means that you can transfer all the crops to a separate facility, such as a shed that holds all of your food, while transporting the ores and other materials mined to your mining facility. If you know what you’re doing as well, you can also make it so all of this happens underground, meaning that you don’t have to deal with an industrialized environment if you don’t want to.
This industrial mod is very useful for automating tasks, and is designed to save you, the typical Minecraft player, a lot of time in the long run. On top of saving time, however, it’s also fun to set everything up, meaning that you are essentially expanding the seemingly infinite replay value of Minecraft even more as well. Sure, you can mine an entire chunk’s width and length of resources all the way down to bedrock by hand, but it’s a lot more fun to build a contraption that does this for you, and even places the materials in a chest as well. This means that you can set up mining operations in plains biomes while you can go and find ravines yourself to mine. Essentially, you aren’t taking the fun out of Minecraft, but rather, saving time by mining areas where you normally don’t mine.
All in all, the buildcraft mod is a very nice and unique mod, and is recommended to anyone who would like to automate various processes in the game, or would just like to make Minecraft more industrial like as opposed to the normal rural and primitive play style that Minecraft currently has. Now if only they made contraptions that automatically slay mobs without the use of water or lava.
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Videos of this Mod
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How to Install this Mod
Introduction
The Steps (1.6 and up)
The Steps (Windows)(Old-Fashioned Way)
The Steps (Mac)(Old-Fashioned Way)
The Steps for Forge and Modloader Mods (Old)
So you want to install a mod for Minecraft? Well, thanks to this guide, it's easy as 1-2-3! Before we start however, here are some precautions you might want to read:
Be sure to get WinRAR or 7-zip. It's a necessity for installing mods.
Be sure to backup your "minecraft.jar" before doing anything! We don't want you to have to force update now, do we?
Be sure to delete META-INF inside "minecraft.jar".
Be sure to install the mods listed in the yellow box below first. They are usually mods required for the mod you want to install to work.
The Forge and Modloader installation instructions only apply if the yellow box below states that the mod requires either Modloader of Forge. If the yellow box does not, use the "Old-Fashioned" instructions.
The Forge and Modloader instructions only apply to the mod itself. Any mod in the yellow box below must be installed using the "old-fashioned" instructions.
In the case that you need more help, post a comment below. We will be glad to help you out!
Minecraft 1.6.4 and 1.6.2 changed the way mods are to be installed now. So much, that it's best to have a full blown guide page for this, rather than quick instructions. Click the link below for the guide:
Installing Mods for Minecraft 1.6.4 and 1.6.2 and Up
If you need any additional support, just comment below, or on the post mentioned above! We will be glad to help out!
Here's the steps to installing that mod you want, or how to install Forge, Modloader, :
Close Minecraft. This is to ensure that the files will overwrite properly.
Open up Windows Explorer.
In the navigation bar, type "%AppData%".
Navigate to "Roaming". (Skip this step if you can't see a roaming folder.)
Open up a folder called ".minecraft".
Open up a folder called "bin".
Right click the file called "minecraft" or "minecraft.jar".
Select open with.
Open with WinRAR.
Open up the mod. (be sure to extract the mod first.)
If there are no specific instructions included with the mod, it is safe to assume that you drag all the files in.
Be sure to delete META-INF. I can't stress this enough.
That's it! Have fun!
So you have a Mac computer? The Mac Operating System has a very different framework compared to its Windows counterpart, so the installation instructions will be different. Here's a video to help you out:
Mod Installation Instructions for Macs
Hopefully that helped you out! If not, you could post it in the comments, and we will help you!
So you noticed this mod requires Minecraft Forge or Modloader, correct? Installing Forge and Modloader mods are just as easy as installing mods the old-fashioned way! In fact, it's even easier once you get passed the main part Here's the steps:
Install Minecraft Forge, Modloader, or any mod dependency listed in the yellow box below using the "Old-Fashioned" installation instructions to the left.
Start Minecraft up. Close Minecraft afterwards.
Navigate to the ".minecraft" folder. Once you open it, you will notice that there is a "mods" folder. If there isn't a mods folder to be seen, create one.
Place the mod inside the "mods" folder.
Open Minecraft up and have fun!
For the most part, that's it when it comes to Modloader and Forge mods. Also, please note that you no longer have to do steps 1 and 2 once you already installed it the first time (you may need to reinstall them however, if you updated your client). Also, just a heads up, if you don't see the mod loaded into the game, you might have to extract the mod into a folder. Most mods work in their zipped form, but some require you to extract them first. Have fun!
Important: This mod requires you to install the following mods:
Minecraft Forge
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Note: Credit goes to the original maker of this mod, who is “SpaceToad”.
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