• DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Had to install the feed the beast app to play their stupid modpacks. It was ugly, had ads taking up a quarter of the screen at any time, and it used up a gig of RAM at idle.

    On top of that, the launcher would run while the game was running, meaning you had a shitty electron app always running alongside the RAM hoarder that is minecraft.

    Really just wish they’d let me install their packs on prism, a far superior qt-based launcher that uses my system’s theme.

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      1 year ago

      Can’t you? There is a whole FTB section in prism when installing mod packs that seems to work perfectly fine for me.

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        1 year ago

        They removed it in a recent update because they were told to by the FTB team. There’s a legacy FTB section for much older packs, but it doesn’t have the pack I want to play.

        • Zeera the Zesty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 year ago

          I mean, worst case scenario, you could always try and use the launcher just to download the mods/install and then cut and paste the Minecraft install over to your launcher of choice. That said, I don’t know for certain if that works largely because I’ve never really played any FTB modpacks, and I’ve always been EXTREMELY picky with Minecraft launchers for a very similar reason (Curseforge’s official app has ads and I don’t trust that “Overwolf” thing they also make you install to not be spyware data harvesting).

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          1 year ago

          Interesting. Turns out I’m still using version 6.3, which is the version just before they removed the ability to download FTB packs. Thanks for the heads-up, I’m certainly not updating now.

          One thing I can confirm is that if you can find a way to install release 6.3, FTB downloads still work perfectly fine.