OptiFine is a REQUIREMENT, so install this modpack and then add OptiFine version HD U H7 for 1.18.2
MCSX: Minecraft PS1 Edition
It's an average Saturday afternoon. You just got your paycheck from your degrading part time cashier job. A whopping 55 dollars and 62 cents. With your new found riches, you decide to hit up some local garage sales to see if you can get a good deal on any retro games. You climb into your beat up 2007 Saturn Ion with the rear bumper held on by ductape, and drive, stopping at each location to check out their repositories. Clothes, books, kids toys, but no games. This average Saturday afternoon has now devolved into a disappointing Saturday evening. With the orange glow of the setting sun enveloping you in despondency, you decide to make one last stop before calling it a day. You step out of the car, hopes lower than ever, to see more of the same. Tables of neatly folded clothes, boxes of old VHS tapes, dusty dinnerware, miscellaneous knick-knacks. As you're heading back to the car, something out of the corner of your eye catches your attention. A lone Playstation 1 game, resting atop a plastic tote full of bed sheets. With the glare of the sun reflecting off of its plastic jewel case, you can't quite make out what game it is, but you can tell it's a 3 disc game by the thickness of the case. You wonder which game it could be. Alone in the Dark? Final Fantasy? Chrono Cross? Curiosity now at its peak, you find yourself reaching for the alluring game. Your curiosity has now twisted into total confusion. Now holding the game in your cold, clammy hands, you read the title, speaking it out loud. "Minecraft: Playstation Edition". As these words leave your lips, you feel a chill run down your spine. "How can this be?", you think to yourself. Minecraft wasn't created until 2009. By then, even the Playstation 3 was already 3 years old. This is impossible. Surely this is a fake, or a homebrew, or...something? Flipping the game over, you take a gander at the rest of the case. At first glance, all appears to be normal. It has a rating, a barcode, gameplay screenshots, even a SLUS number. But upon further inspection, you notice the text on the back of the case. It's not English. In fact, it's no language that you've ever seen before, to your recollection. Strange, indeed. You tear your eyes away from the case. It's getting dark out. The owners of the house have begun packing up their unsold items, and most of the customers have gone home. You glance back down at the game to see the price sticker. $15. "Should I?", you ponder. 15 dollars is a sizeable amount for someone in your position. Why spend this much for something that might not even work? For the first time, you open the case. You see the first disc: Overworld. Next to it appears to be the game manual. You open it, but the pages are all torn out. Why would someone do this? Shoving the thought aside, you close the empty housing of what presumably once was an instruction booklet, and open the second compartment of the case, revealing the other two discs: The End, and The Slip. The Slip? The fuck is that? You mean The Nether? Brushing off your confusion, you question the integrity of the game. All the discs are there, but in what condition? You check the shiny, black underside of each disc for scratches, but they are minimal. You take one last look at your surroundings. Nobody has noticed you. In what is not your proudest moment, you close the case, shove it into the pocket of your hoodie, and shuffle into your car and drive home. Upon arriving at your humble abode, without a moment's hesitation, you place the Overworld disc into your Playstation console, close the lid, and press the power button. You are welcomed by the notoriously eerie startup sequence of the PS1, proceeded by a large spinning grass block accompanied by the word Loading... You feel yourself become increasingly more uneasy as the block continues to spin. Before you have time to process your suspicions, it stops, and the title screen presents itself to you. "Minecraft: Playstation Edition". There are 3 options: Play, Options, and Quit Game. Next to these options, a graphic of Steve. His eyes seem to pierce through yours, looking directly into your soul. But it's just a picture. The background, while perhaps unintentional, is intangibly disturbing. It appears to be some kind of mansion, expertly built, nonetheless, in a dark and foggy setting. You press play, proceeding to the World Select screen. There is only one world: Tutorial. You already know how to play, so you ignore it, eagerly jumping straight to the Create New World button. Most of the standard world creation options seem to be there, along with a virtual keyboard. You name your world, set your gamemode, world type, difficulty, and with the controller ever so slightly trembling in your hands, you hesitate just for a second. Curiosity, anxiety, excitement, fear. All of these emotions hit you like a punch to the stomach. Your breath stops. "Preparing for world creation. Do NOT turn off system"
Enter the blocky horror.
It is STRONGLY recommended to use a controller to play this pack. No, it doesn't have to be a Playstation controller. I actually use an 8BitDo controller, so it doesn't matter. Also if somehow you manage to beat the game with this modpack, do NOT press Triangle to skip the ending. The Controllable mod is bugged and this will completely ruin your save file. You will be trapped in the end forever, unable to interact with anything. I don't know why this happens, but Crayfish hasn't fixed it and probably won't. So just press Esc on your keyboard. Again, do NOT press Triangle
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Modpack Details
This modpack aims to be what Minecraft would be like if it was made on the PS1. It includes bad render distance, fog, warping graphics, 2D item models, graphics and sounds from the alpha days, 2D billboarding objects, and more. In the spirit of the creepy atmosphere that many PS1 games have, you will come across some things that will spook you pretty good that I will not be spoiling.
It also includes/fixes things that I feel should have been added to Minecraft in the first place:
- a functional fletching table
- double doors opening at the same time
- an end update (new enderite ore, don't worry it's not as op as you think it is, it's hard as fuck to get)
- vertical slabs
- missing block variants
- correct crafting output for things like stairs (you get 8 now)
- bonemealable sugarcane
- potion of luck
- putting banners on beds
- better impaling enchantment
- netherite and enderite horse armor
- being able to put leads on more types of mob (villagers included)
- a slightly more interesting ender dragon fight
- sheared sheep retain their wool color
- shulker box enchantments and tooltips
- more sound effects (it's not dead silent anymore, you'll hear your own footsteps and there's also cave reverb)
There are also other things that I did to make it more balanced/alpha like
- no more mending (don't @me)
- elytra is slower now (this is both to balance it and make sure that you don't see any loading chunks. PS1 games would have done something similar to account for the slow loading)
- you can spam click in combat again
- chest loot tables have been buffed to actually encourage exploration
- armor is not as effective as vanilla (you still want it though)
- you don't lose as much xp when you die
- old fishing loot has been restored
- end cities are more common (because they were a pain in the ass to find with this fog)
- shulkers always drop 2 shells
- slower healing
- mimicream can be used to duplicate tools, but the duplicate will have no durability (even with looting 3 it's quite hard to obtain)
And then there's some things that I added just because/to make it feel more unique from java version
- the camera now rolls when flying with elytra
- using boats, horses, elytra, minecarts, etc. forces you into third person
- the top left corner of the screen wil provide you with your coordinates (no more f3)
- a bedrock style display of your character in the top left corner
- your custom skin will not be rendered, you'll play as steve and like it (how would a PS1 game allow for custom skins?)
- you have a quick turn around button (dpad right, currently only works if cheats are enabled, I will try to fix this)
- some mobs that weren't voted for (unfortunately couldn't add them all, which sucks because I really fucking wanted the barnacle)
- the deep dark has been backported (also if there's ever an end update and it gets a backport mod for 1.18.2, it will likely replace the end update that I put together here)
- layered snowfall
- you have a screenshot button (select, access the gallery through the pause menu)
- you can use pistons to push chests
- fishing is a minigame now
- you can just throw concrete powder into a cauldron to harden it
- you can uncraft quartz blocks back into quartz
- you can mine glass instantly now
- phantoms will increase in size over time
- magma walker enchantment (frost walker but for lava)
Subtlety is key. Don't expect a totally different gameplay experience in the first two minutes, a lot of the creepy shit has a low chance of happening, be patient. Just try to play as if it were normal minecraft. Some people wonder why this is a current version of Minecraft, since it's supposed to be a PS1 game. There are two reasons for this. The first, is that nobody wants to play a version of minecraft that has no features. The second reason, is that back in the old days of gaming, developers released finished versions of games, because they weren't able to update it later via patches. This is what I imagine a finished version of Minecraft would look like.
Special Thanks
ckosmic - Your PSX shader is the sole reason that this modpack exists. It's the backbone of this entire thing.
gh0st_infern0 - If not for your Herobrine mod, this would just be vanilla+ minecraft with bad graphics.
fayer3 - Your 2D items texture pack really completes the look of this modpack. And thank you for fixing the black and pink particles issue.
Keksuccino - Thank you for helping me figure out how to use fancymenu
pitbox46 - Thanks for all the custom mods, this modpack didn't feel finished without them
ninjamike1211 - I can't thank you enough for all the work you did to fix the shader
therealdan55 - This is seriously the only mod on curseforge (that I've found at least, and I looked hard) that adds just the coordinates, and no other bullshit. And thanks for personalizing it for me.
You - Thank you for playing.
And thanks to anyone else that I might be leaving out
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