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Meet the crew
This is us! We are a group of volunteers, each providing their skills to, in some way, contribute and help our various endeavours reach their final goals.
Modern Modpacks strives to be a democratic organization, where no single person has the right to say in which direction a certain project should be headed in. When developing modpacks, we use a comprehensive idea pipeline, a major part of which includes a voting process.
Members are also free to choose which projects they want to be involved in, or even start projects themselves. For the little money we get, everybody still gets paid proportionally to the amount of work they've put into getting the final product out.
We strive to make the member hierarchy as small as possible. Currently, our system is built on top of 3 layers - the owner, who selects which project should worked on the most at the moment and the general direction that project should go in; members, which fulfill the roles of both volunteers for the projects and moderators for our Discord server; and trial members, that, after a certain amount of time working on different tasks, get promoted to actual members.
The separation between these roles is very insignificant on purpose. The only real purpose of it is moderation, where people from the higher layer moderate those who are below them. The layer a person belongs to does not affect their pay, influce inside the company, or any other critial factor.
We are international
Here at Modern Modpacks, one of the things we pride ourselves in is our dedication to making our mods and modpacks as accessible as possible, and translating them into different languages is a large part of that.
This map contains a list of all of the translators currently doing work for us, sorted by their language of specialization. Some of them are also members of MM, additionally volunteering by doing other things for the organization. Others are just curious outside contributors, not particularly interested in joining us, but still wanting to help in some way.
As you could've noticed, translators, similar to members, have titles; they are, however, purely superficial. Chief translators are picked by the current owner of Modern Modpacks, and are usually people who have started translating projects into that language the earliest and are still active; they do not have any direct power over regular translators, but can suggest in which way should that team of translators for that specific language currently be heading into.
Our language repertoire and the list of projects available in those languages are ever-growing, and you can help these processes by joining us!
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How we maintain quality
One word - Testing. Lots of testing. And while we, of course, do test our packs while developing them, it is almost impossible to catch every single bug. And when it comes to balance, it's very hard to tell, without any bias, what works as intended and what needs to be changed.
This is where our testers come in. Testers are another separate group of volunteers, just like members and translators, whose job is to play our mods and modpacks in their raw states and report back to us if something doesn't work as expected.
Fine-tuning is usually the most tedious and time-consuming part of modpack development; things like - how much energy should a recipe require, how long should it be, what items and in what quantity should it take, etc; all are parts of this process.
Testers help us smooth all of this out and, by proxy, speed up the process of pack development. With their feedback, we can quickly fine-tune every unbalanced part of the pack, instead of wasting time trying to find every wrongly tuned bit ourselves.
Join us
Want to become a member, a translator, or a tester? Join the team! We are always in need of more manpower and will be happy to see you develop a better future for modded minecraft along with us.
We are currently looking for: KubeJS programmers, pixel-artists, soundtrack composers, quest/lore writers, web developers, and of course, testers and translators.
Have any of those skills? Or any other skills you think would be beneficial to what we are doing? Join our Discord and contact the current owner through DMs to get potentially invited as a contributor and see how you can help at the moment!
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Our mission
Modern Modpacks is built on top of a few core principles. We stray away from them occasionally, but as a general rule of thumb, we like to adhere by these points to maintain a general direction in which we guide our projects:
Quality Over Quantity - This might come as a surprise, since the entire foundation of this organization is to eventually make 16 modpacks, which would suggest they should all be done in a hurry. But "The Journey To 16 Modpacks" is mostly just a marketing gimmick, and we would never put out something unless we think it's in its best state. We develop modpacks as if they were games and whenever posed with a dilemma, we ask ourselves how a game developer might tackle it.
Community Project - As said previously, MM strives to be a fully democratic organization, where each member has equal right to suggest ideas and vote on ideas of others; and the role of the owner is purely superficial and shall swap hands semi-frequently. This principle, albeit, in a lesser sense, also applies to non-members. We are always looking for feedback, and you can provide us with it!
Version-Indifference and Post-Versionism - We believe that, due to the recent developments in mods that allow packdevs to modify basically anything in the game through scripting, one's choice of the Minecraft version they choose to develop on does not matter.
Currently, our version of preference is 1.16.5, which according to some, may be considered outdated. However, we don't really think about it that way; instead, we decide not to switch because most of our infrastructure was built for 1.16 during the days it was most people's first version pick; and we think it's not worth our time to keep updating to the latest versions, when we can focus on what truly matters - good modpacks.
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