OK so, need some server advice. I am starting up a fresh server again, the purpose of the server will be for YouTube livestreams with my son and our subscribers will be playing with us.
I am deliberating over a few things, each of them might be considered separately or as a whole, but here they are:
Modded or Vanilla?
I do like the idea that people wont have to get Twitch and DL a pack from there, but Twitch does make it pretty easy. I like the idea of mods but on the other hand, vanilla has come a long way since the olden days. SO the question is, modded server or vanilla? If modded, what modpacks do you all love?
Grief Prevention?
I have installed the Bukkit plugin "Grief Prevention" and started to play with it. Anyone have experience with it? Any suggestions? Pros and cons? Better plugins to deal with this?
What would make a fun YouTube Livestream server?
What do people want to see nowadays? Minecraft is getting on in age and perhaps people are bored with it. I was wondering if there was any niche sort of thing I could do with this, perhaps make an educational server for kids and families, any suggestions?
I really appreciate feedback here!
Bringing up the thread and this 10-day old post again. I've been playing a ton of Minecraft with my girlfriend, ""unfortunately"" she has a crazy amount of work to do for the next couple months, so I think I'll be freezing our world until she's free.
The best
modpacks I can think at the moment for some videos/livestream, that we are planning to do some day, is
Age of Engineering and
Space Astronomy 2. AoE is linear and goal-based (when compared with other modpacks), and SA2 has the overarching goal to go to space and visit all the planets - it also has a good mix of tech and magic mods, and Mekanism is in there in case you want to rocket away from the early game.
Of course, this comes from someone who exclusively play tech mods/tech packs, so I have no knowledge or awareness of adventure/questing-focused packs. If you guys are into exploration and quests, there might be better options.
I have no experience on
griefing prevention and whatnot, or server settings in general, as I usually tune local servers to play with friends who will usually go by my slight tuning (I'm too lazy to learn all the configs, parameters, possibilities).
But I like how FTB modpacks deal with such things. My girlfriend's brother joined us, and all I did was claim chunks through the FTB Teams interface, and you can also pick which chunks to chunkload from there. It prevents people from breaking or building in other teams' chunks, but I'm not sure if it protects inventories and interactions (might be configurable?)
With that, and with mods, safety of inventories would be on the hands of players..which is not a big deal on most modern/developed mods - if I remember correctly, Mekanism and RFTools for instance, have very straightforward ways to prevent people from interacting with other people's blocks. I used RFTools shield generators and block protectors for further assurance.
On Minecraft getting boring, I don't know man. Minecraft is basically a platform with all kinds of people. Some people only play multiplayer PVP, some people only play minigames, some people only play adventure mods, some people have the audacity to call themselves "purists" and won't even use a different resource pack... I don't think it's slowing down, I think people are finding and sticking to what they like.
Everyone I know that plays Minecraft will play in bursts, and then take a break. But they always come back. That's my observations and experience, though, I might be totally wrong.
All that said, whatever you do, as long as you do it with genuinely and willingly, will eventually find an audience. Example, me and girlfriend haven't played Vanilla in YEARS, yet we bumped into an Youtuber who is making a [initially] Vanilla series in which every 10 videos, he'll add a mod that the viewers choose. As he's clearly hyped and going crazy in the videos (investing a LOT of time simply mining, enchanting, making a mob grinder, "simple" stuff that is more complicated in Vanilla), it becomes entertaining..even though Vanilla has 90% less stuff to do than Modded.
My final advice would be to "just do it". Me and gf have been talking of making a youtube channel for three months, but we never start it because we talk ideas and never find the "perfect" one.
There'll never be a perfect start. Find something that you like and stick to it. That's why you have to find something that both you and your partners (son) enjoy. It might take a while to blimp in folks radars, might as well have fun in the meantime.
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