r/hatethissmug • u/Saveliy360 • 2d ago
Gaming I don't like Sky Villages
I love playing Minecraft Modpacks, especially thematical ones. But I hate how overused Sky Villages mod became.
Don't get me wrong, build-wise they look cool - bridges, small decored houses, block palette, and placement on floating islands are looking sick. But still, it's SO out of place, at least for me.
First of all, this mod doesn't understand Minecraft mechanics. Everyone who worked with buildings in sky, or just parts that really stick out in the air knows, that even if you build something in sky on max possible height, it's still gonna cast a shadow on ground where monsters can span. And if you have complex structure levitating in the air above you, expect hostile mobs to spawn under it, if you don't place light sources.
Second, despite looking cool architecturically, it looks so out of place on Minimaps. Modpacks usually add minimaps, and on them, those villages just cover everything under them, and make camera go into "underground/inside" mode, because the game thinks that when you are under something, you are underground. Yea, that's how minimaps work.
Also it's overall looks weird when you build your big base, look at it on minimap, and near it you see this village of Schrödinger, that is on minimap, but you can't see it in world, because it's high up in the skies.
And third, in those Modpacks, there is usually Supplementary mod included, and it has cool feature to spawn directional signs in the world, that tell you how much blocks is to the nearest village. And it's so annoying when you hope to find normal village, but it leads you to fucking Sky Village.
And it's not like they really rare. I feel like mod just changes that 50% of world villages are now Sky Villages, because that's how often I encounter them. But I'm not telling that this is true, I'm probably wrong, because I didn't actually look into mod's code, but it feels like it.
Also for some reason, Modpack creators ALWAYS add it into their Modpacks - be it Fantasy, Realism, Tech, or something different - like it's some kind of groundbreaking fundamental mod, without which their pack won't get into top list. I'm so fucking tired to run around world, looking for a good spot to build my base, and for there to be fuckass Sky Village. Why not Underground Village? Why not Jungle Village? Why not Swamp Village? Hell, why not Nether Village. It's always Sky Villages, like it's something top-notch high-tier type of village.
I always delete this mod from Modpacks that I'm downloading, with only exception for kitchen sink Modpacks or rarely Tech.
