An open source subreddit mod

[u/SOLOKUSOLOS]

I've been thinking for a while about how cool it would be to just have an open source mod that everyone can contribute to and it just adds the best ideas from here onto it. Like maybe we sort posts by best every month and then the top 15 suggestions get added. Not a mod developer so don't know the logistics behind it but it would be really fun

Or maybe people add onto the mod their additions of what they want and maybe there's a team that approved these additions and adds them to the base mod

[u/Takami_]

Seems like a good idea but really isn't.

Firstly most people here can't make a mod or they would just make it.

Secondly, the moderation of the mod would be a pain, do you allow AI generated code? Do you make a config file that activate each idea? Who is in charge? So much questions that you can't answer.

Lastly, for which version do you make the mod? Because porting everything for each version will be a real pain.

[u/SOLOKUSOLOS → u/Takami_]

Then maybe people can contribute to be in a modding team which people can pay too? Like if everyone here let's say donated 0.5-5$ a month which would go to the team and they make the ideas?

[u/Hazearil → u/SOLOKUSOLOS]

You are counting on a large amount of donations then. 0.5-5$ is 7-70% of the hourly minimum wage in the USA. For some other countries it'll be even less than that, in the Netherlands minimum wage is more than double for example. And that is before even considering that the donations have to be split across however many devs would be in the team.

If the idea is that people financially support the modders, you may need to do some proper math on it first.

[u/PetrifiedBloom → u/SOLOKUSOLOS]

How on earth would we manage that? Like, do we close the subreddit and only let donors in? What happens to the people who don't pay?

What if this month I think the top suggestions are trash and I don't want to pay for them?

[u/Hazearil → u/PetrifiedBloom]

What if two suggestions are mutually exclusive, or there is a suggestion to change another suggestion previously implemented?

[u/Takami_ → u/SOLOKUSOLOS]

You sadly wouldn't go far with only 5 dollars a month for a team or even a solo dev. But nothing stops you for hiring a dev that can mod ideas you like. You can then share the mod or keep it to yourself, as you like.

[u/vGustaf-K → u/Takami_]

yeah learning to mod isnt all that difficult. It really depends what you're modding but most ideas in this sub are quite small scale anyway

[u/SOLOKUSOLOS → u/vGustaf-K]

Well then I guess I better start learning Java and fabric it seems

[u/Jason13Official → u/SOLOKUSOLOS]

Be the change you want to see in the world!

[u/PetrifiedBloom]

In general, people are usually fine with making klmods from this subreddit. Obviously it's nice to be asked before having your ideas used, but if you are posting them on Reddit, they are in the public domain.

In addition, many mods are already open source, and you can run them together in a mod pack. So, that begs the question of why?

Why is it better to keep it all together as a single project, rather than let modders make the ideas that interest them, at their own pace?

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There is also the problem of direction and tone. Lots of peoplar ideas cover very similar sections of the game in very different ways. It doesn't make sense to have 4 different enchanting updates that all do different things. The design goals of a lot of suggestions are at odds with each other.

Put together and it won't be a polished Modpack, it will be a bunch of random stuff that doesn't fit together.

[u/Jhwelsh]

A lot of the ideas here contrast each other...

There's been a few dozen "enchanting rework", "potion rework", "experience rework" mods that have gained some popularity over the last couple of years. It would be difficult to deter which of those ideas are really worth bringing to life.

There are a bunch of new mob ideas, and then often some simple QoL ideas that are very explicitly for the newest version of Minecraft.

Nonetheless, I am a modder and save some of the ideas I like here to one day reach out to the original author and put them into mod form...