Revisiting Old Minecraft Modpacks

Modpacks have been there since the golden age of Minecraft. I decided to see how well they've aged after all these years and learn new things that I never knew back when I first played them. For some it'll be a trip down memory lane and to others it will be an interesting history lesson on the old modpacks.
Songs Used (in order):
Super Mario Galaxy - File Select
Minecraft - Otherside
TLOZ: Ocarina Of Time - Kokori Forest
Minecraft - Pigstep (Stereo Mix)
Factorio - Solar Intervention
TLOZ: Ocarina Of Time - House
TLOZ: Link's Awakening - Sword Search On Koholint Island
Chrono Trigger - Secret of the Forest (PPF Cover)
You're still here? Awesome. I wanted to talk about how despite this not being as high quality as most other videos that follow the same style as this, I'm proud of how well it came out. Never would I believe that I would make something like this in the future. Even if its not on par with some of the other giants in this niche, It's still a big moment and a huge milestone for me. I've learned what to do and not do and I hope in the future that I'll be making way better videos than what I've done previously. Anyways, thanks for reading this and have a good day! :)
Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:41 - The "First" Modpack
2:10 - The First Breakout Modpack
3:55 - A Personal Favourite
5:29 - The Unique Modpack With An Unfortunate Future

[@Stromoto]

I know my narration skills are very questionable, but LISTEN I have a good excuse because its something I've never really done before (apart from the mrbeast vid) and my mic is broken. Anyways, Thanks for watching :)

[@wn950]

It wasn’t bad at all for your first times doing it although ik you can do better

[@rnjit7256]

Start a fund me so you can get a blue yeti microphone

[@gam3gob00m4]

The Factorio music caught me by suprise i thought i left my game running again XD

[@juaneskator]

You sound good, I'm a voice actor and I really enjoyed your narration.

[@Stromoto]

Im flattered thanks :D

[@teepman1111]

Tekkit reached the height of it's popularity when Yogscast started playing through it. I would attribute a fair amount of the rise of Minecraft modding popularity to them.

[@SAY-AZ-VEGA]

yeah, i never saw a video of yogscast but in my mind modpacks were popular because of him

[@grandmasterautistwizard4291]

Dude, Jaffa factory was fucking awesome.

[@marvelousball]

Yogcast was not as big as you remember. Nostalgia bias

[@honeycrisp808]

​@@marvelousballThe original first episode of their tekkit playthrough has 12 million views.

[@MrFrizads]

They were literally the original biggest minecraft channel. Respect history.​@@marvelousball

[@arandomcrusader8822]

Hexxit: 69 mods "Big modpack" made me age a bunch of years right there

[@rawrthedinosawr9659]

it's hard for me to even find modpacks under 100 mods these days

[@lazlotakahashi4150]

I played all of these, but the Crafting Dead will always hold a special place in my heart, I was a huge fan of TWD and that mod really did it for me. But seeing it just become nothing is so depressing lol.

[@Stromoto]

Crafting Dead was the shit back then, sad to see it go :(

[@thedob3l]

Crafting dead was great but for me personally i loved Decimation (formerly Escape from Novikov). It was a zombie apocalypse mod like crafting dead and imo much better just extremely underrated.

[@kvin96]

Tekkit is evolution of THE Technic pack, which was first to integrate all those techmods you mentioned, plus some more (millenaire and the like). Tekkit was meant to be server-compatible Technic before kind of abandoning adventure-type mods, which were compiled in another notorious modpack YogBox

[@Stromoto]

I've heard of technic but I didn't know it was the predecessor of tekkit

[@rnjit7256]

Awesome job man! I can remember watching the Yogscast make their Jaffa factory using tekkit good memories

[@shadowsonicsilver6]

And then the bees ended it

[@zerocheeks8040]

twilight forest being on the thumbnail makes me feel so old omg

[@NinoJoel]

2:18 Tekkit was the first mod pack I did not compile myself. I spent over a thousand hours on that mod pack back in the day

[@rodrigocanton6244]

This video has an amazingly high quality, i hope your channel blows up soon

[@PogChamp_Max]

Hexxit was my childhood, to this day still my most fav modpack

[@voodoo5191]

2:44 I love that factorio music here :D

[@rainboat3288]

how is this video extremely high quality😭 good job man💪

[@albertgaming2593]

I didnt expect such a good video to watch from a channel this size! i havent watched your newer videos but you could lower music volume in the background cuz its hard to focus on you sometimes otherwise love the video

[@soybean9098]

I remember playing hexxit and tekkit ages ago. Few years back I replayed them just to see how time has affected it, and gotta say they aren't bad even to this day.

[@BroomMasterYT]

Absolutely incredible video :O The editing is on point, the narration is great, and your little jokes just spice it up so much. You have a great channel cooking here, keep it up dude! 100% Dropping a sub and clicking the bell

[@claycord333]

Love this! You covered so many interesting mods :)

[@shsharkz]

GOOD VIDEO, was surprised to look at the views and realize this only have 1.5k. it feels like watching one of those videos that have over 50k views, honestly probably even more than 100k. keep up the good work :)

[@junatah5903]

Voltz was another good one.

[@Stromoto]

Loved voltz, but I felt like tekkit was much more deserved

[@junatah5903]

@@Stromoto oh yeah tekkit was my childhood, still sometimes go on it from time to time.

[@Eliahninja]

Certainly a nostalgia trip, thanks for creating this

[@GummyBear651]

my friends and I spent so much time on Crafting Dead, it was the main game we played together, wonderful memories

[@darshilbadole98]

Dang such high quality content i can't imagine how much time it took

[@minecraftinalabama]

Thanks for the great trip down memory lane

[@defenderofthecrown04]

You just unlocked a memory for me

[@mrfeather2732]

Most underrated video atm.

[@Xzarfna]

Tekkit classic has to be my all time favourite modpack. Adding Forestry for 1.2.5 back into it (if you can find the jar and fix any bugs), and it's near perfect to me. Nuclear reactors from IC2 are so much more involved than BigReactors or Nuclearcraft - and the possibility of a meltdown ending your base if you're not careful is a great tradeoff for the huge power output vs just turning on a Big Reactor and leaving it to run. EU and MJ being two different power systems honestly makes sense! One is electricity and one is kinetic energy, of course you need a power converter between the two! Forestry being added allows the automation of crops and trees, something i'm not sure can be automated in base Tekkit Classic, and allows for even more awesome factories to be built. New modpacks like Resonant Rise or ATM are fun, but it's so easy to just skip to endgame and find yourself bored. Tekkit does have things like the Energy Condenser and Transmutation table that mean you can make anything into anything, but as manufactured items often dont have an EMC cost, you cant transmute them so you still need auto crafters etc, and the condensers are expensive enough to not want to make dozens of them. But a quarry can just pump everything into one and make endless diamonds. the original Redpower is still amazing to me, ProjectRed does a decent job of porting it to new versions, but IMO, the original is still better, it integrates better with other mods due to the blulectric engine, frame motors work perfectly for pre-create block moving. The introduction of Red Alloy makes redstone so much more approachable and allows for so many more options.

[@bbobbles]

YES! Hexxit was also my favorite it was awesome watching the old KZbinrs playing it

[@Stromoto]

Definitely, can't believe I didn't know about hexxit 2 until recently

[@bbobbles]

@@Stromoto I dont mean to advertise so I’m sorry if it comes across that way but someone I know streamed hexxit 1 and 2 up until recently (personal reasons) and I think it’d be good to watch him as it’s his first playthrough as well. His name is nitebow on KZbin and twitch

[@scripted44]

I replayed hexxit with friends like 3 years ago and it held up well honestly

[@ilhatropical1]

i simply love some old modpacks basically because of nostalgia, I've watched so many series of a favorite youtuber of mine, I wish to play all of them one day

[@Stromoto]

Then why don't u play em? Do it now!

[@ilhatropical1]

@@Stromoto someday I will but i just bought minecraft 2 days ago and just now im learning how to play the mods and everything, and right now im already playing a modpack called SteamPunk with my friend, its a recent modpack on 1.19.2 i believe. Started playing it because my friend already was so yeah.

[@roofon]

i still remember messing around to install now that's what I call minecraft back when I was younger. Truly a blast from the past. It was definitely small in scope of mods esp. compared to modpacks of this day but it was fun.

[@ErtugrulK]

Omg amount of virus that was in my computer because i tried to download minecraft and mods are unbelievable.

[@nddgoficial]

Great video buddy!

[@giorgisabashvili2664]

man, tekkit takes me back, i fucking loved it

[@Spacegamer1250]

the older pack that was my childhood was Blightfall and it is so nice to see that the community managed to convince Technic to let them continue updating and refining it in the past year.

[@Stromoto]

I've tried to play blightfall, but since I was so young back then I never understood what i should do lol, looks interesting but not my cup of tea.

[@dogf421]

the mention of meta inf gave me flashbacks

[@markokostelac7282]

Zoocrafting by SeriPixelBiologist was my favorite to watch. But then came TerraFirma punk and I love it still

[@Niesmiesznyy]

2:45 Factorio OST hits

[@highgogoat]

holy shit hexxit and crafting dead were like the only modpacks i played as a kid, that shit was so fun

[@MrRat-tj2dn]

i spent so much time in custom tekkit modpack serves w chisel and stuff just creating fabrics w indistrial craft

[@Bluray2]

Im that old, that i remember RedCraft and BuildCraft mods, they were the best in combo with Industrial. I want these days back, when ender IO came out, everyone started to use it, but i really like animated pipes from BuildCraft, sadly most of them are not updating anymore... Good old days

[@orhandalegend]

Orespawn is probably THE most iconic youtube modpack like, ever

[@Stromoto]

I think orespawn was a mod which is why I didn't add it here

[@orhandalegend]

@@Stromoto yeah true, i confused it with crazy craft mb

[@illumililium]

for me YOGBOX is the ultimate modded minecraft nostalgia😭

[@Gomekor]

the factorio music is BIG with tekkit footage

[@mrdollyman5675]

“These were dark times” No, but really. Brightness was capped at like 10

[@Stromoto]

Truly dark times

[@thexd1805]

Ore spawn got me into minecraft, but mostly the youtubers like ppmmos, dantdm, stampy, bignoodles, and the other legends, but orespawn, A MOD had a huge impact on me aswell.

[@speedy6743]

Hexxit was so fun as a kid, one of the only modpacks my pc would let me run at the time

[@mr.v1442]

Yeah, that nostalgy hits

[@CoalWheat]

crazy craft my beloved

[@MalcyTheMarionette]

I remember The Crafting Dead. I have to check it out again

[@gleevorp]

how is this not viral

[@joshuasiebenhofer2452]

Seeing These mods Hurt me so much. I know all of them from a KZbinr who has turned into a content farm. Why....oh why must it Hurt so much

[@elo_9420]

crazycraft is possibly the most iconic mod in my opinion as it got popular during peak minecraft hype

[@_Rasec]

The factorio music on tekkit makes sense

[@tomb2923]

Attack of the B-Team will still always be the best modpack ever made

[@ChiefMeow]

Lovely video.

[@noodlechan_]

Tekkit and tropicraft were my top 2 favorite.

[@Foxyrobo]

My favorite modpack is probably FTB Unleashed. It's kinda similar to Tekkit, as they are both tech modpacks from similar versions (unleashed in 1.5, tekkit in 1.6 i believe)

[@veritusmiller]

pure nostalgia!

[@shyrtexx4879]

I still play Hexxit to this day and forever will!

[@iceagentx]

Great video

[@Jomygunz]

I wish I had a pc because I know I would play old Minecraft with mods and slowly make my way up to newer Minecraft mods and play other games with mods because mods make old games feel new again

[@ty2teo13]

Recently i played hexxit modpack and its so good

[@liamkoon611]

You should really take a look at the bracken pack. It adds 11 dimensions my man.

[@ArcKanosie]

I remember wanting to play hexxit but not knowing how to download it because im just a kid, and straight up going into depression for a few days until my brother downloaded it for me

[@justsomepersonontheinterne8833]

Such an underrated video and creator with high quality videos! Im subbing for sure. Remember me when your famous 👍

[@CinematicEnlisted]

i was here before you reach 1k subs. Because you will

[@EclipseCat]

something i find kinda sad is that tekkit is the sister pack to an older pack, technic. while tekkit was more popular because it was SMP, but technic had more mods but due to how old modding was many of its mods only worked in SSP. i think that is also what kinda explains tekkit being much higher on google trends because the technic launcher was very popular back then too but im sure many people, like me back then, would always forget about technic and only think to search tekkit launcher instead XD and hexxit's name is similar because its a technic modpack, so same guys that made tekkit.

[@sonxicor8921]

Lack of crazy craft mentioned is crazy

[@Stromoto]

Never played crazy craft unfortunately, looks kinda fun :(

[@blockwearingman]

still rocking hexxit if you wanna play some things from the mod in 1.12 there is the mod chocolate quest repoured

[@red2fire2]

lol was that a factorio song during the Tekkit overview

[@swordsmancs]

Tekkit 2 is phenomenal and I play it regularly today, tons of great mods and tons of fun If you like technical work it’s definitely for you

[@Stromoto]

Tekkit II was so good that it made be delay this video by 2 weeks lol. It was absolute fun and I wouldn't have played it if it weren't for tekkit classic.

[@Gudaskii]

Beautiful. 🚷

[@nathanchalcraft6919]

Shout out to my favorite mod pack Feed The Beast!

[@BigOlBarry]

I still run Technic SSP to this day

[@nectarkenni]

how do toy use old Verizon's. I wanna do crazy craft but I can never rget the right one

[@dysc_]

epic video

[@theaveragegamer7221]

I still remember the Duncan and Sjin war that destroyed the server in the Tekkit playthrough.

[@Stromoto]

I dont remember that happening but it makes me think about voltz for some reason

[@Corthmic]

Somehow, I never used any of these modpacks back in the day. I only ever used Yogbox.

[@gergoretvari6373]

I knew Tekitt was popular but had no idea this popular if you ever do a follow up i would add YogBox to the next list, and maybe Void's Wrath btw, don't know what microphone you use, but i suggest downloading an EQ program to smooth out some frequencies otherwise the editing and narration is great

[@Stromoto]

I have a new mic atm and its WAY better than my old one thankfully

[@gabrielkamiesz4780]

Old Frustration unlocked: Melting ores in hexxit

[@crispybacon2895]

Hexxit brings back so many good memories

[@Stromoto]

Hell yeah

[@bigeman]

Blood and bones is worth mentioning imo

[@AWOKAM]

I gonna be honest I'm still having the most fun on 1.7.10 modpacks😂

[@australiankappa8123]

i kind of thought the unfortunate future modpack would be crazy craft lol, insane how that ended, but yeah. sad ending for tcd.

[@Stromoto]

Never actually played crazy craft so I didn't know about it unfortunately

[@wonlychris6523]

How do I play hexxit 2 I’m new to Minecraft mod packs so I’m not sure where to download mods, I know curse forge but I wanna play those a little older modpacks

[@Stromoto]

Technic launcher is where most of those mod packs are

[@pikminman13]

much as i love the really old modpacks, as thats what really hooked me on mc in general, i cant go back to play them. while i couldnt care less about new vanilla content, as i am playing a modpack to play with the mods, not vanilla, the lack of a lot of qol on both the vanilla and modded sides makes it very hard to feel comfortable. 1.7 is as far back as i can willingly go. tmi is just not nei or jei, among many other things that would be too long to list and i would have to play it again to remember absolutely everything.

[@prokoploronz]

Great video, but it would be a lot better if the background music wouldn't be so loud, there were parts of the video in which I almost couldn't hear you.

[@Stromoto]

yes I know its absolutely horrible, but I've learnt my mistake now and that will never happen again

[@creeperkid09]

Tekkit Classic for 1.2.5 isn't actually the original tekkit, it was a redux created sometime in 2014-15 when a new pack was made for 1.7.10 that took the Tekkit name. The original Tekkit ran on 1.1.0 and has a slightly different mod list than Tekkit Classic. This doesn't really matter in the context of this video, but I wanted to put it out there since the history of Tekkit is pretty murky and it seems like this fact often gets forgotten.

[@Stromoto]

I see, its not easy to get the right information when so much of the same thing keeps getting repeated to the point its the "fact".

[@DefDEagle]

God I spent so much time on CD seaport. The PvP was something no other Minecraft experience came close to. Went downhill due to its staff.

[@Stromoto]

Sad to see how it ended up. I kinda thought it died because it didn't get any exposure but I guess that staffs also ruined the experience too

[@boredsv]

nice video

[@SpookedYT]

There's an item to store entire chunks in Hexxit and it breaks the game very quickly if you abuse it too much lol

[@GoldyPlaysMinecraft]

I joined TCD back in 2020 and played with my friends sadly only one still plays. I believe the modpack died because of lack of updates as well as ranks and kits becoming pay to win. The mod developers are working on a 1.18.2 modpack so there is so hope for the return of more players.

[@NotAViper]

Subscribed.

[@thesoulcast956]

It's more beautifal then I remember

[@radishmaster3303]

ı expected to see yogbox but unfortunately it is not in the vid but anyways cool vid

[@bonkyouded]

How dare you say tekkit had flaws! IT WAS PERFECT!!!

[@Stromoto]

IT DOES. AND IM TIRED OF PRETENDING IT DOESNT Its still good tho

[@obeyobay9146]

I didnt know the battle tower mod was so old..

[@Stromoto]

I didn't know it was so old until I saw the yogscast's on NTWICM which made me realize it was VERY OLD.

[@classic_britain]

W content

[@pavi__]

if you had a better mic this vid would've got 100k+ seriously consider investing in a mic but other than that good vid keep it up

[@Stromoto]

Oh for sure, first thing im getting when i have the cash is a new mic assp. My current mic is a 9 year old blue snowball thats been dropped more than i could count 🤣

[@LindseyDivision]

i was sure you would talk about crazy craft too

[@Stromoto]

never played crazycraft so I wouldn't know :(

[@LindseyDivision]

damn

[@moavideogamer8417]

My favorite is Yogbox

[@lucamayhem]

I love Tekkit