Last edited on 15 July 2024 - 12:03 AM by sslub

I'm not too versed into coding and don't have that much experience but this is an idea I had and thought it would be an amazing addition to Badlion's accessibility, essential is a mod that aims to simplify the multiplayer mechanics of Minecraft by instead of hosting servers with third parties instead hosting it on your system. Usually this is a long tedious process of learning and using port forwarding or other services that becomes even longer when trying to add mods but the tech wizards over at their development team somehow made a working mod that can connect players to each other extremely fast with the joining players only having to click one button to join each other's worlds. Granted you and your friends have a stable connection it works amazingly and has almost zero incompatibilities with modpacks at least to the extent of my testing.

Compatibility generally wont be an issue with Badlion I believe although don't take my word on this as I said I am not very experienced with coding but if the developers over there can cook up something this complex and make it this good and easy to use I'm pretty sure they know what they're doing (probably I don't think its open source but it's probably not spaghetti). Quick note the essential mod creates it's own folder in the installation folder of the instance you want to use it in and doesn't conflict with any of the core game mechanics or features touched on by most mods to my knowledge so that's just another factor to take into account when thinking about incorporating the mod.

There are small flaws that I feel I need to address but some aspects just boil down to general minor annoyances than any actual problems with the mod or its functions.

1. The friend's list is different from Badlion (kind of obvious) and it might be tricky to work around that but again sorry I don't have a lot of experience in that department so I can't really say how hard it would be to code a solution to this issue.

2. Sometimes losing connection to the servers either due to connection, an outdated client, or an outdated version of essential as it is not perfect and is constantly getting bug fixes and improvements over time. The mod uses your computer as a host and the essential servers do all the connecting seamlessly integrating multiplayer into vanilla Minecraft. This does mean you could have connection issues at times but through my nearly 80-100 hours of using this mod so far I've only run into that issue a couple or so times.

Overall this mod is a 10/10 and it does exactly what it says it does which is integrate an accessible and easy to use way to connect to your friends in your Minecraft worlds, it would be honestly amazing to incorporate this into badlion as you could combine all the quality of life features and fps boosts with the seamless multiplayer and create a client that truly has every feature you could want while drastically improving the game. Probably would be hard but I wouldn't know, even looking into it as a possibility for a little bit would be worth doing at least in my opinion but do what you guys think is best.

Link to the essential mod main page:

https://essential.gg/en

(the FAQ is in the Wiki tab just scroll down)

Posted on 17 July 2024 - 04:57 PM

This suggestion has already been forwarded and accepted by our team.
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