greeny sheepy

One more to add: perhaps I was misleading with the "Official" part of the title, by official I meant endorsed the way the discord and VSModDB itself offers when showing off mods and offering a place for discussion over them. Not that the devs need to craft these modpacks.

I'm not saying the dev team themselves need to put the modpacks together, but players are the authors of the mods themselves (unless I am incorrect about this one). I'm just saying create a vehicle for people to essentially share their modpacks with ease using VSModDB they way they already do with standalone mods. A new page where people submit full modpacks that they've tweaked values with to create that experience, or popular setups that people consider the essentials. Say I want to share my combination of mods I call it "Vanilla Plus", and edited some of the values in the mods json files to create this slightly different experience that people with little to no knowledge of config editing want to use themselves. Just a page where there are modpacks that people can upload and create stable combinations of mods. This can also simplify the recreation of modpacks. Rather than reading a forum post or checking the description of a youtube video and looking for all the mods myself, then trial and erroring the different files and updates of the mods, then finding out because "Mod A" updated it creates a fatal error with "Mod B" in one of the main things "Mod B" offers, there is a place where we know the mods work together on the same version without the errors updates to individual mods may cause. Perhaps a modpack is mods A through Z with tweaks here and there to balance, and we know that all these files work seamlessly together on VS 1.20.5, but in VS 1.22 some of the mods stopped being updated, or no longer are compatible with overlaps. Trust me, I know MC is a bad game I played it for years then quit when I got this game, but at the same time, the mods the community offers add a spice of life to the game that allow for smoother gameplay in some regards, and exciting challenges or very useful tools in others. It may be prudent that just a new page on VSModDB is added for people to upload their modpacks. As the game gains popularity, I can definitely see the want to fully replicate people's tweaked modpacks to get the experience they did. My own example is of wanting to try a skyblock challenge in VS. I've seen it done, but the youtuber themselves said they edited a lot of the mods in order to get the balance and right materials in to make the whole experience possible. I would love to try it out, but I don't have the in-depth knowledge of config editing fully myself to try and recreate it. Sure, it's not necessary, but it would be nice. Maybe unused for a while, but as this game gains popularity and MC gets left in the dust, it seems almost inevitable that people would want to have a whole different experience within the confines of VS survival. Perhaps I'm in over my head at this idea, but VSModDB on its own was an extremely crazy thing for me to discover, a centralized area for people to upload mods that are of such quality. Why not just add a page where people can share their combination of those unique and already seamless experiences?

I realize that VSModDB exists, but would the devs or whoever manages that site consider adding a "Modpacks" Section? A lot of youtubers who play this game and that I watch have the list of mods they use and customize in their descriptions to make certain challenges or aesthetics things possible. Custom challenges like Skyblock and Arctic survival require certain mods and certain tweaks. I think that as more and more of these come up it might be prudent to allow a space on the official VSModDB to allow these packs to become more accessible from one click. Forgive me if this already exists in some form, but this idea spawned as I was watching a youtuber do a challenge, they explained that they tweaked mods slightly to make it more possible, and that as a semi-modder themselves, I thought that they'd understand how to navigate and upload the pack to the VSModDB if there was a vehicle for it.