#probably sildurs of some kind

[spartaaee]

just my first 1.21 starter home! i think i'm actually going to start posting my builds on here lol time to go through my screenshots!

[doebt]

also what mods do u use for minecraft,, i wanna get some but idk what to do i just want more cute animals and plants and pretty things

also i use my laptop which can’t cope w too much lol

YESSS ANIMALS AND PLANTS AND PRETTY THINGS IS LIKE MY MAIN PURPOSE W MODS ok heres a list w links and brief descriptions so u kinda know whats going on <3 ill kind of categorise them too... 

some laptops seem way better than others at handling mods but i would say just pick and choose ur absolute favorites and if thats too much for it then take one out until its more manageable! my laptop handled mods very well but i dont think i had THIS many on it hadflkjghdfkjlghndklfjhg

under a readmore bc idk how long this will get LOL

animals:

ice and fire adds dragons and TONS of like fantasy animals and some scary mobs too!!! u can tame most of the animals and theyre all very unique and SUPER cool! u can ride some of them, theyll fight for u, etc... its very configurable like u can change spawn rates and stuff, i personally turned dragons WAY down so theyre very rare to come across, bc they kill u like instantly and also cause a ton of lag if theres a lot at once, and theyre default spawn rates are ummm too high lol. but yah this is one of the best mods i think ever probably...i love it sm its like a classic

better animal models makes vanilla animals look cuter and better and better animals plus (by the same ppl) adds a bunch of other animals that are rly cute! a lot of them are tameable and theyre very well thought out

genetic animals adds a bunch of dif breeds + colors and new breeding and feeding mechanics to farm animals, its kind of new but very well done but i really really love it! if you use it in conjuncture with better animal models, it replaces to vanilla farm animals but not the wolves and foxes and stuff, so they work very well together. also the chicken babies are like incredibly teeny tiny and adorable. and it lets you be able to ride llamas and cows with saddles and bridles... i could go on (this mod is what i use in place of animania, my favorite mod ever, but that one hasnt updated past 1.12)

alexs mobs also just adds a bunch of new animals, almost all of these are tameable and very unique, i LOVE that it adds crows lol you can also ride some of these animals once u tame them... u can also configure spawn rates for these if theres ones you dont want or want more of, etc. they update pretty often with new animals as well

realistic horse genetics is a super well done mod that makes horses come in wayyyyy more colors, it also has them come in different sizes and stuff...basically what it says in the name but its like. INCREDIBLY well done i couldnt live without it lol

exotic birds adds a ton of pretty birds! it also adds a rare phoenix you can obtain and tame, and ride, which is cool! you can keep birds in birdcages breed them and incubate eggs and all kinds of stuff

making stuff pretty:

biomes o plenty is super popular and really awesome, adds a tonnnn of new biomes with their own trees and wood types and plants and stuff! theres also some cool rare biomes (this mod also works well with all the animal mods); and some other biome mods i kinda cycle between are terraforged (also makes terrain generate better, smoother and stuff and super configurable! this works alongside mods that add biomes) and traverse is good too

macaws roofs, doors, windows, furniture, fences, etc are good for making ur houses pretty! i havent done much w this yet bc i havent built a house since i got it, but it looks really nice

diagonal fences does what it says on the can its suuper convenient and i like it a lot since i make a lot of animal pastures hehe... and it works with custom fences (so if you have macaws fences it will work for those too!)

fairy lights adds paper lanterns and string lights which look way better than torches! also lets u make flag banners and stuff

falling tree lets you chop a tree down in 1 swoop, and automatically destroys the floating leaves so u dont have floating trees and stuff everywhere...might seem cheaty but i like it lol (i also use this in place of dynamic trees, which makes trees BEAUTIFUL but, again, hasnt updated past 1.12)

i also use the unity resource pack (i like this one bc it makes colors more coordinated and muted! my ocd lollll i also like mizunos of courseee) and sildurs vibrant shaders (sildurs is pretty graphics intensive but the lite or medium versions are less so! there are also less intense shaders out there, this is just the one i use)... for shaders to work u need optifine (which also adds dynamic lighting! i.e torches will light the way when you hold them without placing them, stuff like that. its also just good to have, it optimises your game better to prevent lag)

SO YEAH LOL those are all the mods i use rn! some of these have dependents you have to download to make them work (like biomes o plenty requires open terrain generator) but they tell u that on the download pages and stuff, just look out for that <3 also most of these mods have wikis if you wanna know how to tame an animal or crafting recipes and stuff like that, i pretty much keep the wikis open whenever im playing lol. idk how much u know abt the like process of installing mods n stuff but if u need help hmu and ill try to help!

(sorry this is SO long btw but i wanted to be thorough and also have this in my minecraft tag in case anyone else is curious lol)

[wholebeet]

Hey so i have a question, and technically I could ask the guy that made sildur but like any way to figure out why when i use it um it just turns into a black screen

hi, i’ll do my best to help! so some people having this kind of problem claim it’s their graphics card. if you think your graphics card is not strong enough to handle the shaders, you could try getting the less intense versions of sildur’s like sildur’s lite. another thing people have tried to do to fix their shaders is to open Options, go to Visual Settings, click on Shaders, and then in the lower-right hand corner click Shader Options. most of the people that do this toggle random things until it magically fixes itself, so i’m not really sure what’s going on there.

i’d really like to help you more, but i’m not really an expert at minecraft shaders. if you’re still having problems, you could probably just ask the creator of sildur’s. but i hope one of these suggestions helped you a bit and you can get back to playing minecraft!

[dirtcube]

Y’all really liked my domestic creeper post so here’s more ideas about them.

Creepers mature fast due to their non-domesticated counterparts usually dying quite fast from their explosiveness. A baby creeper has been nicknamed a ‘Beeper’. They generally crawl around like caterpillars until they’re 2 weeks old where they start trying to walk around. At around that point the parent tends to abandon the nest with the intention of having the youngling follow them around.

Creepers are herbivores! The more leafy greens they eat- the leafier they become! They kind of absorb it into themselves. This means that during winter creepers might seem a bit more bare as there’s less leaves to eat. The leaf texture changes depending on what kind of leaves they mostly consume! A creeper that eats mainly pine needles will have a bit of a prickly texture.

(I’ll probably make some creeper subtypes later on)

Light sources. This one is kind of inspired by the creepers on the LGBTempire server- Where the creepers don’t explode but they do still do the whole “sizzle” thing. If you have sildur’s shaders- they will end up becoming a light source! 

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[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

vicky can u rec some good minecraft shaders? 💕

SEUS is probably the prettiest one but your computer has to be MAD beefy to make it look its best and not lag too hard.

Kuda and Sildurs is probably better for less fortunate computers.

SM Shaders is good if you prefer the normal minecraft color instead of the ‘realism’ colors but still want that kind of mirror effect on the water.

for tex packs i lov mizuno16 but EVERYONE loves mizuno16 so thats boring to recommend. chroma hills is a good one but a little boring still. adventure time craft and sugar pack are both cute!! a lot of ppl like lemonade but tbh it’s creepy lookin on the villagers and mobs i am NOT a fan