Because of its accessible gameplay along with its nearly limitless creative ceiling, Minecraft remains one of the most influential and popular games in history. As updates are continually released, Minecraft players continue to innovate on previous creations as well as come up with entirely new ones.
In-game creations tend to fall into one of three categories: art pieces, structures, and Redstone creations. However, there are creations outside these three categories that fall into the use of command blocks or data packs. For example, though Redstone programming is near limitless, the creation of a highly mobile Minecraft tank requires the use of command blocks.
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As for Minecraft data packs, they allow for the creation of interesting new items, recipes, and functions without the manipulation of the game's code. Data packs allow for unique creations like the Five Night's at Freddy's animatronics in Minecraft due to the packs adding new animations and models. Recently, a Reddit post documented a data pack adding a new model for the game's kelp that was based on another undersea title.
That popular title is Subnautica, a survival game that takes players beneath the waves of a fully submerged planet chock-full of beautiful biomes and strange creatures. Reddit user jjkay03 was particularly enamored with Subnautica's glowing kelp species and decided to recreate the kelp using a data pack. The result was a Minecraft version of the kelp that used one of the game's flower models to simulate the glowing masses on the Subnautica kelp, creating an orange-yellow hue similar to that of the Minecraft bee hive computer.
Though the creation is certainly pretty, Reddit users offered some
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