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[firedingo]

So I'm sure this has been asked before but I wasn't sure how to search for it. I've heard people talking about this and I saw the 2 episodes CavemanFilms did on his channel but I don't really know what this is. I've tried googling it but can't seem to get a clear understanding on what exactly Feed The Beast is?

 

Thanks and sorry if the post is redundant,

Naomi

[Kahless61]

Feed The Beast is two things:

Originally, it was a challenge map that used a bunch of mods. I don't know much more than that, and I've wondered about it myself - the actual origin of the name.

 

Today, it is a collection of modpacks. So it's not really a challenge map anymore. Just modpacks.

[ZER0-0]

The origin of the name was made up by the people who invented the first FTB modpacks, and it is quite a fitting name. The beast is inside of everyone of us, and once you begin to play, you really can't stop playing. I have totally fallen into this trap with the beast needing to be fed often. That is my interpretation, and a widely used interpretation of feed the beast, or FTB.

[Celestial Oblivion]

It's a collection of mods for minecraft. It was made so that players can access all the cool features the mods have without knowing anything about how mods in Minecraft work.

[digitallyApocalyptic]

Best Answer

Long post, spoilerized for compactitude. Yes, I know these aren't words.

 

Challenge Map information:

 

Spoiler

 

Originally, "Feed the Beast" was a challenge map created by well-known Minecrafters (Slowpoke et al, I believe) incorporating many well-known mods, such as IC2 (and its addons CompactSolars and AdvancedMachines), RedPower, WR-CBE, the Portal Gun Mod, BuildCraft, Equivalent Exchange 2 and Forestry. The concept was that the player entered a pyramid made of Basalt (a dark material which RedPower uses to generate volcanoes) and was required to create various highly advanced machines and dropping them into a Transposer to pick them up (thereby "feeding" the "beast") at which point they were sent through a series of complex logic gates and machines to determine if A ) the item was a valid item completing an objective specified by the "beast" and B ) which objective it completed.

 

Dependant on the item that the "beast" had been "fed", the player would then receive some sort of item(s) to assist the player with further progression, with the end goal being the ability to create the Omega Bee, a rare and valuable bee species available only in an FTB-specific mode of Forestry that utilized the high-tier Dark Matter and Red Matter tech tiers added by Equivalent Exchange 2 (since rewritten to Equivalent Exchange 3, where these items do not yet exist and the mod is more balanced) to cause mutations in a bee's genome that would allow for easy diamond production.

 

Intended as a time-sink and a challenge, the map then branched out into "Insanity" mode, a much more difficult mode, as well as a mod pack, which is what Feed the Beast is more often known as today. See below.

 

 

Feed the Beast modpack information:

 

Spoiler

 

After the success of the challenge map(s) of the FTB team, they decided to create their own launcher and mod pack set to easily distribute the configuration files and mod files so that all could easily partake in playing both the challenge maps and their own worlds. The FTB mod packs also added several mods to the pack that were not available when playing the original challenge map. Several versions exist, such as the Ultimate Pack, Mindcrack Pack, Direwolf20 Pack, Magic Pack and Tech World Pack. There are also various third-party packs which are hosted on the FTB launcher, such as Voltz (AKA Universal Electricity), RPG Immersion, and the Voxel Mod Pack.

 

If you're interested in playing the original pyramid or insanity map, download Retro SSP. That's the pack which was the "original" FTB.

 

[firedingo]

Thanks digitallyApocalyptic, You answered my question perfectly!!!!!

Also Thank you everyone else who posted replies!