TAG Minecraft Bloc

An often-overlooked area of player creation is the curation, configuration, customization, and synchronization of mods into collections called modpacks. In the case of Minecraft this represents a significant aspect of the modding community allowing for less technically skilled participation and yet encompassing a high degree of know-how and creativity.

There almost 90, 000 mods listed in the curseforge repository and over 1600 pages of modpacks organized into a variety of mod and gameplay genres that emphasize different styles or play, different kinds of worlds. The top ten modpacks share more than 15million downloads between them. With extensive tweaking these packs can come to embody the narrative and gameplay visions of the modpack makers becoming discrete game experiences in their own right.

We refer to this kind of player-centric design practice as mod choreography a term which evokes the knowledge and skills of the choreography in bringing together disparate elements in the creation of a new experience. There is art and craft to mod choreography just as with modding and remains one of the most accessible pathways for players to shape play experiences for themselves and others.