MCSX - Minecraft: PS1 Edition

I am very scared of what the future looks like if we keep going in this direction. It's incredibly easy to feel powerless these days, but you do have power, every single one of us does, every one of us has a voice, and I encourage you all to use that voice before things reach the point of no return. There have been many that have come before us and fought in one form or another so that we could be free today. It is a never ending battle, and we must now fight so that we can be free tomorrow. Do not sit idly by and watch them as they take away the freedom that they once promised you piece by piece. Click this link to defend your freedom and prevent online age verification

Do not add optifine to this version, or things may break. Do not use any launcher other than curseforge to install this pack, or things may break. Do not update any of the mods or things will definitely break.

MCSX - Minecraft: PS1 Edition

It's an average Saturday afternoon. You just got your paycheck from your degrading part time cashier job. A whopping 55 dollars and 62 cents. With your new found riches, you decide to hit up some local garage sales to see if you can get a good deal on any retro games. These relics, forgotten by time, remind you of a simpler world. A world of play, of laughter, joy, excitement. Concepts that are becoming more and more unfamiliar to you with each passing day that you waste away at that fucking cash register.

You climb into your beat up 2007 Saturn Ion with the rear bumper held on by ductape, and drive, stopping at each location to see what they have to offer. Clothes, books, kids toys, but no games. This average Saturday afternoon has now devolved into a disappointing Saturday evening. With the orange glow of the setting sun enveloping you in despondency, you decide to make one last stop before calling it a day. You step out of the car, hopes lower than ever, to see more of the same. Tables of neatly folded clothes, boxes of old VHS tapes, dusty dinnerware, miscellaneous knick-knacks.

As you're heading back to the car, your head hung in defeat, something out of the corner of your eye catches your attention. A lone Playstation 1 game, resting atop a plastic tote full of bed sheets. With the glare of the sun reflecting off of its plastic jewel case, you can't quite make out what game it is, but you can tell it's a multi disc game by the thickness of the case. You wonder which game it could be. Alone in the Dark? Final Fantasy? Chrono Cross? Curiosity now at its peak, you find yourself reaching for the alluring game.

Your curiosity has now twisted into total confusion. Now holding the game in your cold, clammy hands, you read the title, speaking it out loud. "Minecraft". As this word leaves your lips, you feel a chill run down your spine. "How can this be?", you think to yourself. "Minecraft wasn't created until 2009. By then, even the Playstation 3 was already 3 years old. This is impossible. Surely this is a fake, or a homebrew, or...something..." Flipping the game over, you take a gander at the rest of the case. At first glance, all appears to be normal. It has a rating, a barcode, gameplay screenshots, even all the standard copyright information. Continuing your inspection, you notice a copyright for Brian's Block Engine. "Who's Brian?", you wonder, momentarily lost in a haze of intrigue.

You tear your eyes away from the case. It's getting dark out. The owners of the house have begun packing up their unsold items, and most of the customers have gone home. You glance back down at the game to see the price sticker. $15. "Should I?", you ponder. 15 dollars is a sizeable amount for someone in your position. Why spend this much for something that probably doesn't even work? But you can't just let something this unusual go, you have to know what it is or it will haunt you for the rest of your life.

For the first time, you open the case. You see the first disc: Overworld. Next to it appears to be the game manual. You open it, but the pages are all torn out. "Why would someone do this?" Shoving the thought aside, you close the empty housing of what presumably once was an instruction booklet, and open the second compartment of the case, revealing two more discs: The End, and The Slip. "The Slip? Is that supposed to be The Nether?" Shrugging off your confusion, you question the integrity of the game. All the discs are there, but in what condition? You check the shiny, black underside of each disc for scratches, but they are minimal, as if this game, or whatever it may be, was rarely ever used.

You take one last look at your surroundings. Nobody has noticed you. In what is not your proudest moment, you close the case, shove it into the pocket of your hoodie, and as you do, you feel a sudden sense that someone or something is watching you. You spare a quick glance over your shoulder. Nothing. You briskly leave the scene, shuffle into your car and start the engine.

Upon arriving at your humble abode, you slam the door behind you, startled by the sound. It seems to have snapped you out of your daze, bringing you to a more conscious state of mind. It's a very familiar feeling. The same feeling you experience every time you wake up from a deep slumber. Your surroundings gradually become more real to you. You slowly become more self aware. Your clothes are damp from sweat, your vision is blurrier than normal, you don't even remember the drive home. It's almost as if you... teleported.

Frantically looking around the dimly lit room, not quite sure what it is you're looking for, your eyes stop once they reach the clock on the wall. 11:57. "What the fuck..." Not so much a question that begs for an answer, but rather a simple declaration of bewilderment. You toss your keys in the direction of the table, not caring whether they land on it or not. You open the mysterious case, remove the Overworld disc, and place it into your Playstation console, close the lid, and press the power button. A procedure you've done so many times before, but this time, it doesn't feel so comforting.

You are welcomed by the notoriously eerie startup sequence of the PS1, proceeded by a large spinning grass block. "It... It works..?". You feel yourself become increasingly more uneasy as the block continues to spin, and spin, and spin, and as it does so, you feel yourself starting to slip away. As if, with each rotation of this block, the threads that hold your world together further unravel. Everything that you thought you knew is coming undone right before your very eyes. You think back to the garage sale, how nobody seemed to notice you. How could they have not noticed you? From the time you pulled up in your obnoxiously loud beater, to when you hastily fled the scene of your crime and slammed the car door, no one batted an eyelash at you. As the block keeps turning on the screen before you, so do the wheels in your head.

Before you have time to further process your suspicions, a splash screen of the old Mojang Specifications logo proudly presents itself, accompanied by a jingle. You jump, immediately feeling silly for getting caught off guard by a simple copyright screen. Just as quickly as it came, it fades to black. Now shrouded in this all-consuming darkness with nothing but your thoughts to acompany you, you pinch yourself. But as you do, the title screen appears, immediately vanquishing these thoughts. This is no dream. There are 3 buttons: Play, Continue, and Options. In the bottom right corner of the screen, that same Mojang Specifications logo. On the opposite side, a graphic of Steve. His eyes seem to pierce through yours, looking directly into your soul. But you cast these thoughts aside. After all, it's just a picture...right? The background, while perhaps unintentional, is intangibly disturbing. It's a simple view of a mountain, with a body of water in the foreground, but there's just something... off about it. It gives you a strange sense of déjà vu, while at the same time feeling so unfamiliar and otherworldly.

You press play, proceeding to the World Select screen. This is a far cry from what you are used to. There are 10 worlds already here, and there doesn't seem to be any "Create World" option. The more you think about it, the more it makes sense. This is running off of hardware from 1994, after all. Seed based world creation was likely far out of the question. It seems they opted for a selection of pregenerated worlds instead, trying to offer as much variety as possible at the time. As you try to distract yourself with logic and rationalize this mysterious finding of yours, you find yourself being left with more questions than answers. "Why has version never been talked about for all these years?", "What was it doing sitting at a random garage sale for $15?", and "Why me?"

"Why me..?"

You choose your world. There's a certain presence to the Play button. You feel as if it's staring at you. You stare right back at it, but it does not flinch. You do. For a moment, there's a feeling of impending doom. It comes almost like a warning, like it's trying to tell you that you don't know what you're getting into, to turn back now while you still can. But you, ever the unwise, choose to persist. With the controller ever so slightly trembling in your hands, you hesitate. Curiosity, anxiety, excitement, fear. All of these emotions hit you like a punch to the stomach. Your breath stops. The clock strikes 12.

"Loading world from Memory Card Slot 1. Do NOT turn off system"

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It is STRONGLY recommended to use a controller to play this pack. No, it doesn't have to be a Playstation controller. I actually recommend this one. Open the spoiler below to view the controls.

Controls

Modpack Details

This modpack aims to be what Minecraft would be like if it was made on the PS1. It includes bad render distance, fog, warping graphics, 2D item models, graphics and sounds from the alpha days, 2D billboarding objects, and more. In the spirit of the creepy atmosphere that many PS1 games have, you will come across some things that will spook you pretty good that I will not be spoiling.

It also includes/fixes things that I feel should have been added to Minecraft in the first place:

• a functional fletching table
• double doors opening at the same time
• an end update (new enderite ore, don't worry it's not as op as you think it is, it's hard as fuck to get)
• vertical slabs
• missing block variants
• correct crafting output for things like stairs (you get 8 now)
• bonemealable sugarcane
• potion of luck
• putting banners on beds
• better impaling enchantment
• netherite and enderite horse armor
• being able to put leads on more types of mob (villagers included)
• a slightly more interesting ender dragon fight
• sheared sheep retain their wool color
• shulker box enchantments
• more sound effects (it's not dead silent anymore, you'll hear your own footsteps and there's also cave reverb)

There are also other things that I did to make it more balanced/alpha like

• no more mending
• elytra is slower now (this is both to balance it and make sure that you don't see any loading chunks. PS1 games would have done something similar to account for the slow loading)
• no more rocket boosting
• you can spam click in combat again
• chest loot tables have been buffed to actually encourage exploration
• armor is not as effective as vanilla (you still want it though)
• you don't lose as much xp when you die
• end cities are more common (because they were a pain in the ass to find with this fog)
• shulkers always drop 2 shells
• slower healing
• mimicream can be used to duplicate tools, but the duplicate will have no durability (even with looting 3 it's quite hard to obtain)

And then there's some things that I added just because/to make it feel more unique from java version

• using boats, horses, elytra, minecarts, etc. forces you into third person
• the top left corner of the screen wil provide you with your coordinates while holding a compass (no more f3)
• a bedrock style display of your character in the top left corner
• your custom skin will not be rendered, you'll play as steve and like it (how would a PS1 game allow for custom skins?)
• you have a quick turn around button (dpad right)
• some mobs that weren't voted for, including the copper golem, barnacle, and mauler
• the deep dark has been backported
• you have a screenshot button (select to take screenshot, access the gallery through the pause menu)
• you can use pistons to push chests
• fishing now gives you a live fish
• you can uncraft quartz blocks back into quartz
• you can mine glass instantly now
• phantoms spawn every night and can pick up mobs and the player, and have a projectile attack
• magma walker enchantment (frost walker but for lava)
• item drops are bigger

This is not your typical horror modpack. It was not designed to jumpscare you every 30 seconds. This is an ARG, with the story being told being horrific in nature.

Special Thanks

tfarecnim- Many custom mods

Okira - End villages mod, beta testing Water World

Apothicon - Winter mod, skylands mod, and end biomes mod

Voxla - Midnight lurker mod and score mod

Lord of Crumbs - Misc custom mods and True Herobrine mod

Zixvo - Fixing the barnacle, beta testing Infinite Night

Gracesion - Fixing numerous textures, beta testing Skylands

Kami - Misc custom mods, beta testing Escape The Slip

NinjaMica - Shader

Conq - Performance increases, helping set up the SMP, beta testing Realistic

Cinna - Whitelisting for the SMP, beta testing Unrealistic

Sleepyboi1061 - Beta testing Normal

Emona - Beta testing Cave World

Mint - Beta testing Winter

Skelly - Beta testing Escape The End

Boonabell - A handful of in game paintings

Dizzel - Help with the discord server

TS Games and Repair - Printing the case

Soybean_56 - All of the new music

PsychoNemesis - Legacy music

Therealdan55 - The original compass coordinates mod

Kinetic Hosting - Sponsoring this modpack

Lyof - Inspiration for the end overhaul

Voodoobeard - Various datapacks

fayer3 - 2D items

ckosmic - Original PSX shader

thepoeticrainbow - Golden days resource pack

Keksuccino - Help with fancymenu

AndrewGaming587 - Dragon movement fix datapack

Xisumavoid - Various datapacks and resources

Raiizn - Unquartz datapack

Menackni_Pam_Pam - Nether overworld 1:1 ratio datapack

NuryRush - Minecraft logo

All my Ko-fi supporters - Giving me money

Mom - Not thinking this was a waste of time

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