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the throium mod does not add the pirate invasion, goblin army or the solar eclipse events those are the base game events

It’s 10000AD, the Earth is a wasteland and humanity exists in small pockets around natural springs. Ubahk looks up from his water harvester at his friend. “Okay, I got DOOM running on this thing.” Bukha responds “oh cool, I heard the River community made a new mod for it.”

It wasn't until I saw that someone is remaking Vampire: The Masquerade - Requiem in its entirety in Skyrim that I realized the extent to which it can be modded. So insane.

What!? No Source engine games??? Are you kidding me??? Half-Life 2 is so moddable that brought life to Garry's mod which is basically the pure definition of modding heaven, since is A MODDABLE MOD

Terraria moding is crazy, calamity dev(s) are just out there somehow, making a whole nother game and just. keep. going.

The modding community in Skyrim is so active and dedicated that it made me play one game for thousands of hours. That is more than the amount of hours I have on multiplayer games.

Regarding Terraria, you forgot to mention the community's insane level of creativity when it comes to lore building and MUSIC!!!! Music in modded Terraria scene is INSANE, these guys are literally composers at this point. And goddamn, Calamity Soundtrack? It's its own level now! It's fanmade but it doesn't sound like one, it's that good. Hell, the bells in the game if you hear it somewhere else, is referred to as Calamity Bells. That's how much of an impact that soundtrack has

I'm surprised that Warcraft 3 wasn't on this list. The custom map tools that game provided gave birth to one of the biggest genres out there (MOBAs) and there were thousands of custom maps with literally all genres from survival horror to full fledged RPG experiences to even FPS maps all from an RTS game.

a fixed path just means you have to "break a few 4th walls" to get into modding.

Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Terraria, Minecraft and of course Left 4 Dead These are 6 most well known and (Personally) Biggest modding communities to have existed

The old school Minecraft mods actually helped inspire an entire new genre, Factorio lists build craft as an inspiration and having played both you get a very similar problem solving loop. This then branched out to games like satisfactory and DSP!

Skyrim modders gave us the first non player character that dynamically and in real time reacts to and responds to the player talking into a mic with AI. This taken and developed to it's natural evolution, it changes everything.

Not having Quake/Source in this list is fucking nuts Edit: Now that I think about it, Roblox is another inexcusable omission from the video. Edit 2: A lot of people feel that calling Roblox a moddable game is a strange thing to do. I honestly don’t know. Some mods are so comprehensive, that they become their own games. Calling Roblox an engine doesn’t really work for me based on the amount of reused assets. There is a lot of low level engine things are are not able to be modified in Roblox. To me, that makes user content closer to mods. They are a self described “gaming platform” so I guess they are somewhere in between. I’m super down to discuss. Let me know what you think.

I remember back in the early 2010s first figuring out how to mod Minecraft. My poor laptop didn’t stand a chance.

With SRB2, They made a Kart game called SRB2K and quite recently they made SRB2K2 or Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers. IT'S STILL BASED ON DOOM.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R the series have a bunch of mods which basically make a whole new game

Black Ops III’s modding scene is also insane with hundreds of thousands of maps and add-ons to experience, and some maps are even straight up different games entirely

Hideous Destructor is one of the best immersive sims ever made, with a modding community for itself. But it's literally a doom mod.

35:19 not sure if it was a joke or not but the pirate invasion,goblin army and solar eclipse are from non modded terraria

Leaving out Super Mario 64 is absolutely crazy, There's so many romhacks that are entire campaigns created from scratch, and even a couple total conversion romhacks

I remember once trying to make a whole ass RPG game inside minecraft using the custom NPC's mod, i gave up due to it being too complicated for a 16 year old to do so much all alone

I think it can't be understated how influential the Half Life modding scene has been, for both the first and second game. Not only has the modding community remained strong for the past 25 years, but some of these mods have become so popular as to eventually become fully fledged titles. Counter Strike, which currently is the most played Steam game by a mile, was once just a half life mod. Same goes for titles like Cry of Fear, Stanley's Parable and Day of Defeat were all once Half Life Mod. This modding scene was so popular that Valve ended up releasing Gmod, which was a whole sandbox game that allowed player to mess around freely with the Source Engine and Half Life 2's assets. Besides Doom, Half Life might have the most influential modding scene in history

You could argue that datapacks are Minecraft's version of official mod support, and those have steadily been gaining awesome features. I doubt they'll ever fully replace traditional mods, but you should really look up what datapacks can already allow, it's kinda insane

Terraria is randomly generated, but NOT infinite. Also Thorium doesn't add the events you listed, those are vanilla. Besides that good video

modern minecraft feels like one of my friends modpacks from 2013 with all kinds of random disconnected stuff no one will do while also not fixing any of the core issues

In the case of Creation Club, I think there is the issue of the METHOD of compensation as opposed to the fact that modders are necessarily compensated at all. Seeing a store open up filled with microtransactions imitating well-known mods gave many players the impression that Bethesda hasn't learned anything since the horse armor fiasco. If they were initially bundled together in a package like they did with Anniversary Edition, I think people would have less of a visceral reaction. In addition, there were issues with how Bethesda ran it (people disagreed about what Bethesda was paying modders, heavy restrictions on things like voice acting leading to poor quest quality, etc.) And my personal gripe with the system is that I was promised all future DLC in exchange for buying a season pass, but now apparently THIS officially licensed and released downloadable content doesn't count and you have to purchase the anniversary edition separately. Bethesda shouldn't get away with breaking their promises simply because they're being sort of nice by contracting modders for their DLC.

It can’t be understated how much the original DOOM games influenced and popularized: - First Person Games. - Shooter Games. - Computer Gaming. - Violence in Games. - Shotguns in Games. - 3D Technology. - Speedrunning. - Mod Support. A large amount of the modern gaming youth don’t know or even respect the OG DOOM. Yet without that small group at id Software, we likely wouldn’t have many of the great games we have now. Even 30 years later, DOOM still feels as fluent and fun as modern games, sometimes even more so! All because a group of 90s 20-something year olds who liked making games and playing Dungeons & Dragons turned down a partnership with 20th Century Fox to make a licensed “Alien” shooter.

I can’t believe that Warcraft 3 didn’t even get an honorable mention

Seeing Todd so surprised by people giving the Fallout show a 9 honestly made me feel bad :( Starfield was disappointing but it honestly looked like his passion was stomped on

Something I feel like I have to point out: Skyrim was *not* the first time Bethesda released the same tools they used to make the game so modders could use them. That started with Morrowind's Construction Set, almost a decade earlier, and similar tools were released for Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas.

Minecraft is a Total Heaven For modding, you can change minecraft to be whatever you fucking want... be it RPG or Technology mods, Mobs or Structures Even a TCM for Battlefield as Minecraft is available Till this day I have never ever seen a game with modding Capabilities like Minecraft, with the amount of creativity minecraft has as a Moddable game is Insane, Even Surpassing the Likes of Doom And Terraria

One big omission from this video to me, are strategy games. Pretty much any strategy series have thousands of mods that fundamentally change the game. The best Star Trek Games are mods for Stellaris and Sins of a Solar Empire, the best Lord of the Rings game is in Total War, Game of Thrones for CK2, the incredible total conversions for Mount and Blade Warband, all the Civilization IV mods that allow you to change it into any genre you want. Even Mobas, one of the most popular genres today were born out of a StarCraft modification.

I feel a good example of this, would probably be the 2d pokemon games, especially firered. romhacks like pokemon crown, that entirely uproot the original games mechanics, or many others that create entire new reigions, stories, and seperate experiences, are kinda mindboggling to see. People have been messing with that games code so long that there are many hacks that even surpass what gamefreak originally designed.

Can't forget Warcraft 3 from when blizzard had a modicum of dignity. Having a mod that literally created a new game genre. Not the craziest modability, but definitely leagues ahead of the majority of games.

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26:00 Another counter-point to the Creation Club Store would be that there is no other way to implement this if not for updating the game executable along other files, which caused the game to enlarge unnecessarily and break mods that are dependent either or both of the game version or of the version of the Skyrim Script Extender Special Edition (which is indirectly the same thing).

They were Fans, remaking an early 2000s Vampire Game using Skyrim as an engine. It looks crazy. I forgot the name, might edit later.

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Incredible video, makes me appreciate the developers of the games and mods much more. Good stuff Lufa

I feel it's worth saying that pretty much everything you say about Skyrim applies to Morrowind, Oblivion, FO3 and FONV as well. Also the Creation Kit wasn't named after the Creation Engine, the Creation Engine was named after the Creation Kit. FO3 was the first game to call it "Creation Kit" after the Garden of Eden Creation Kit from pre-Bethesda Fallout lore, a macguffin device that can take some water and transform an area of radioactive wasteland into a lush ecosystem. Prior to FO3, Morrowind and Oblivion were also released with an earlier version of the same software, except it was called the "Construction Set" instead. And Oblivion had a total conversion of similar quality to Enderal by the same developers as Enderal, called Nehrim, a year before Skyrim was ever even released.

I want to add that moding Minecraft Bedrock Edition is 100% possible, c++ Code can be Reverse engineered to then make mods of it. The only reasons why there are no mods for it is, because Java Edition is so easily moddable nowadays and bedrock is generally considered to be worse.

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I was waiting for rimworld to be mentioned but great video

I had to click entirely because of the word play in the title combined with the thumbnail. Fucking godly

My current favorite modding communities are the Rivals of Aether workshop community, and Morrowind's Tamriel Rebuilt team. Also shoutouts to Project M!

Dont forget the sims. There is a series of mods for the sims 4 that straight up converts it into a sex simulator, and this mod has its own mods. What is funny is that modding is like a big thing in IT, there are whole ecosystems of software that essentially work by the same way that game mods work.

You should try Better Than Wolves, a REALLY old, near-complete rework of minecraft made in response to wolves being added. It makes dark kill you, hunger is scary, death is debilitating but potentially rewarding, getting close to death makes you MORE likely to die, and (in the newest version of it) creepers actually explode from their center so you can't block them easily anymore. It also completely changes spawning requirements, dirt falls, dirt sand and gravel are now slabbable, and you don't even get dirt as a full block, you get pieces of dirt. You want A LOT of dirt, by the way. Nether Portals are also REALLY dangerous, not because of what is in the nether, but because of what happens to mobs around them. Chickens explode, sheep float, wolves get really mad, and squids? Squids begin crying. And Squids/Wolves have new behavior now too! Squids are neutral in the way spiders are, and they attempt to drag you into the water, which is really hard to get out of! And if they get close to you, you'll wear them and be unable to see while they eat you. They can also hop onto zombies, but zombies won't die from them. Wolves are now a huge issue, but also potentially good. Wolves drop wolfchops, which can be cooked and eaten, but doing so near a wolf will aggro them which is very dangerous. If a wolf eats rotten flesh it will undergo a transformation after ~5 minutes into The Beast with more health higher attack and all around meanness. It also adds a lot of machinery for the mid to late game, as it's actually a TECH mod first and foremost! It adds 2 forms of "power" gen, wind and waterwheels, which power axles like create does, but better. No worries about limits, as long as you can get an axle to it it's powered. The dragon fight isn't the end either, oh no, it's just the only way home with the goodies in the end! Endstone is used to make the new most powerful things after all, Soulforged tools and armor! Made in a 4*4 crafting grid, no less. But that's not all, remember how I said death was potentially a boon? BTW has a progression system, where every tier makes the radius you can spawn in larger every time! It starts off small, but eventually you can spawn thousands of blocks away! In fact, you may want to! Structures are now very good, but only as you get farther from spawn! within 2000 blocks, structures are 'abandoned', meaning villages will be empty, have no crops, and zero loot. Not even furnaces or chests! Within 3000 blocks, villages become deserted, leaving behind SOME crops and potentially, one VERY hungry villager who may leave you stranded far from home once again if it sees you. After 3000 blocks villages are full and have more hungry villagers and crops, temples have their full loot instead of the 'junk' items, and the elusive Jungle Temple houses a very useful automation tool, if you dare to brave the dangers of the jungle... The jungle now houses a very dangerous enemy: Jungle Spiders. These nasty little critters will poison you AND give you hunger! Walking on leaves also makes you VERY slow, leaving you open to their attacks. Ah, I suppose I should talk about spawn requirements and WALKING SPEED shouldn't I? Yes, that's right, walking speed. For you see, different materials now make you walk slower, like grass/dirt and gravel making you walk slightly slower, sand making you quite slow, and leaves making you walk at a snails pace. Now about spawn requirements! 1.13 lighting rules are in affect here, but blocks also change what can spawn! Nothing bad can spawn on wood, and nothing good can spawn. No, that isn't a typo. Nothing good can spawn. No passive mob spawns except upon loading a new chunk! Same goes for villagers and their hungry counterparts. Now for the special things! Jungle Spiders ONLY spawn on jungle leaves. That is their only requirement. If there are jungle leaves, they can spawn on them. Mobs spawned from spawners don't give drops unless they have lived for at least one day. Ah, a little fun fact that doesn't fit anywhere else: Endermen are chickens and will run if you hit them. Now for the nether and its FUN little quirks... Zombie pigmen WILL swarm you. If one kills you, consider you items forfeit unless you have either a bow or soulforged steel at home. The one who killed you will wear your armor and weapon, and if it notices you, it WILL aggro ALL pigmen nearby. Be prepared to die multiple times. Also, they don't care WHO or WHAT hit them, pigmen will always aggro on the player, and will remember that for a while. The nether hosts the best source of automated wood: Bloodwood trees. These funky little things will continuously regrow, providing automatic wood for you! You will need it. Soulsand provides access to soul urns, a very useful item used in many recipes, and used to cure hungry villagers. Speaking of villagers, lets talk about their trades. Their trades are painful and required. You cannot make eyes of ender. You have to trade for them from a Librarian. Librarians, are rare. Librarians only appear in villages beyond the 3000 limit. Same story with the OTHER pain in my ---, Priests. Priests are needed for the final level up trade before eyes of ender are unlocked for trade by the Librarian, an block which places blocks. Do you know what priests need? That very useful automation tool in the jungle temple. And that's just the level up requirements. Villagers tend to love selling you things for insane amounts of emeralds and giving you 1 or 2 emeralds for bucketloads of difficult to obtain items, including crops. Yes, crops. Carrots and Potatoes take 5 days to grow and only give you 2 back RARELY. This is IF they survive that long, as unless they are planted in a planter they will grow weeds that need to be cleared or they die. Wheat is worse, taking 7 days and maybe giving you a single wheat, but gives you ample seeds in return. That's all I'm going to list however, as I believe KZfaq will cut me off if I go any longer. This is your local adhd transfem signing off.

Great concept for a video bro!

how tf are you not bigger? this felt like a larger creators video so seamlessly

9:35 BIG misconception, the marketplace isnt the only place nor even the most popular place to get bedrock mods (addons) people usually download them _for free_ online

Just found your channel and I'm loving your stuff, and as someone whose main hobby is modding Skyrim, I would like to add a few things. Skyrim mods are even more versatile and varied than most people could imagine. Mods can touch every aspect of the game and I mean that quite literally. Mods like ENBs and the thousands of ENBs available for it are the most important and impactful part of improving the graphics of your game. ENBs tend to be extremely performance intensive but boy are they worth it. Rudy, PI-CHO, NLA, NAT.III, Cabbage and Ruvaak Dahmaan are some of my favourite ENB presets. Other stuff like textures and meshes are extremely important too. SMIM is a mod that everyone uses unless as a base as it improves so much stuff. And there are hundreds of texture packs covering different aspects of the game like landscapes, architecture, clutter etc. But I would personally go for the bigger ones like Skurkbro's Retexture Project, Skyland AIO or Pfuscher's Skyrim 202X. In terms of gameplay, there are mods for every part of the gameplay whether it be the leveling system, perks, werewolf/vampire gameplay, combat etc. The two best modders in the scene in terms of this imo is EnaiSiaion and Simon Magus, whose collections of mods are collectively known as EnaiRim and SimonRim respectively. It is genrally advised to use only EnaiSiaion mods or Simon Magus mods and not mix and match them with each other or other mods as using the mods from only one author would result in better balancing but I personally use a mix of their mods and mods from other mod authors. In terms of new content in the forms of new lands, quests and followers, I don't think there is a modding scene as rich and as extensive as Skyrim in this particular aspect. With the exception of total conversions like Enderal, basically every mod with new quests, lands and follower are compatible with each other with very few exceptions and patches being provided for basically every incompatibility. The Forgotten City, Moon & Star and Clockwork are some of the smaller ones but are exceptionally well written and worth playing. Mods like Wyrmstooth, Wheels Of Lull, Project AHO, Midwood Isle and Falskaar are the more medium sized mods. All of them have custom voice acting and are very fun. But the really big ones are Beyond Reach, Warden Of The Coast and Beyond Skyrim: Bruma which adds so much to the game. However, I also have to mention the trilogy of mods made by Vicn which are:; Vigilant, Glenmoril & Unslaad (in that order), of which Vigilant is finished, Unslaad pretty much done and Glenmoril almost finished. They are extremely dark and delve really deep into the darker and more esoteric aspects of the Elder Scrolls lore while expanding them. They are also heavyily inspired by the soulsbourne games with it being extremely obvious in Unslaad and Glenmoril. Some of the best new follower mods imo are Gore, Lucien, Xelzaz, Lucifer, Caryalind Thallery, Inigo etc. There are also some mods that build and improve upon vanilla content like Jayserpa's Quest Expansion mods. But there are more extensive reworks, of which Extended Cut is the most notable, aiming to expand and improve upon the entire vanilla main questline. Unfortunately, it isn't out yet but they have released Extended Cut: Saints & Seducers which overhauls the entire Saints & Seducers Creation, turning it into one of the bigger quest mods with adding a new land (The Shivering Isles). However, there are three mods that extensively overhauls vanilla followers, revoicing them, making them give commentary for quests and elaborate on their backstory. They are; Serana Dialogue Addon, Improved Follower Dialogue: Lydia and Teldryn Serious of which SDA is the most popular and IFD is my favourite. Also, I have to say a few things about the modlist Ultima. It was originally based on an amazing modlist called Nolvus with a few modifications by nukt. But nukt remade his modlist from scratch and released it like a month back but it is no longer available as he basically ghosted his community and it got banned by Wabbajack (the software used to install automated modlists) because his community was disgustingly toxic. I actually have played Ultima and it was pretty shit compared to Nolvus and modlists on Wabbajack. Nolvus (has its own installer), LoreRim, Fahluaan and Nordic Souls are some great modlists that you should try out.

35:18 Just wanted to mention that these events where already part of the base game. (Someone might of already mentioned this, but I haven't seen them yet so yeah) Cool video though, great analysis of the communities and mods :)

Are we just going to look over the fact that every time Bethesda updates Skyrim. It breaks everybody's mod load order?

shouldve mentioned the sonic robo blast 2 kart racing mod for doom 2 when you were talking about the other sonic one cause the karting one is fucking crazy too

My favorite Minecraft modpack that I would never play is GregTech: New Horizons. It is insanely deep, and that is putting it lightly. I don't have the words to describe how deep it is. It takes on average 8,000-10,000 hours to complete, and not many people have done it. It turns Minecraft into an automation and logistics game like Factorio or Satisfactory. For example, creating a vanilla piston requires nine different steps, excluding ore processing, which is a whole different beast.

Really good video I liked and subscribed 😎

calamity from terraria is probably the best gaming experience i have EVER had, how they took the base game which already was my favorite game and improved it so much is unheard of for me, the only thing that can top that off for me is fromsoftware games

The only game I’ve been brave enough to mod was Minecraft, but I do really wish there was more support 😭 the whole process felt so sketch

0:13 if you didn't say that was Skyrim I would have thought it was another breath of the wild type game

one game that fits perfectly is blade & sorcery, a game which is relatively basic at first, but with a few buttons (and an in-game mod manager/downloader built in) it can give whole new gamemodes, maps, weapons, enimies with smart AI and so so SO much more. Hope to see it in a part 2

By only criticism of the creation club is more "fear of a possible possibility". As we went from horse armor to day 1 dlc, what I fear is that Bethesda may try in the future to discourage or obstacle the modding side that is free.

We just gonna act like Half Life doesn’t exist? Like it’s one of the first games brought up when talking about changing the game experience through mods and whole games being made because of mods

I think it's worth giving Minecraft a bit more credit on the support category. Since 2019 they've been shipping obfuscation mappings with every release of minecraft so you actually don't have to reverse engineer stuff anymore and anyone who survived the early days of id conflicts when making mod packs can attest to the way they've reworked their entire codebase to make modding easier.

I'm so shocked you didn't bring up dragon block c when talking about modding for minecraft, it literally is one of the coolest mods I've seen for minecraft

I feel like Madness project Nexus is soon to reach modding heaven, since the game has a lot of love, and people want to mod it, and soon we're getting workshop support, and the devs are producing guides on how to mod

I am a bit surprised ARK has not been mentioned. I wouldn't call it a modding heaven but it was getting there.

I think Geometry dash should have gotten at least an honorable mention with its editor. Sure it’s editor is built into the game, but the community has been able to turn it into something it 100% should NOT have been able to do. Back in 2.1, Serponge released “Mastergame”, a fully fledged Top down Zelda-esque RPG with its own mechanics, map, and somehow, a password save system. Later down the line, Yoreid released Floating Maze and Floating Outskirts, which were platformer levels before they were supported natively. Then Dienid’s released Abel, which simulated camera effects before that was supported, and then there was “What” by Spu7nix which is just a pure anomaly that I can’t even begin to comprehend. Once 2.2 came out the floodgates completely opened with Platformer mode adding enough controls to make some legitimate gaming experiences. After seeing multiple metroidvanias pop up and Fnaf fully recreated in the game within a month of the update, I wouldn’t be surprised if we got GTA 5 in Geometry dash before we see GTA 6.

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Starbound is an unspoken beast of modding, sorry for people who disagree. They've got some really crazy stuff there

35:17 This just hurts me. All three of these are base-game features, one of which being in the game since its original release.

Arma 3 Modding community is insane and works to fit into the normal game play environment.

Sonic Generations can be considered a game that has achieved modding heaven. Tons of character hacks (a few even give them new abilities), tons of levels and more. There are only a few hacks that try to make it a completely new game, like project unleash and generations adventure, but i think it can count for modding heaven.

17:07 honestly RLcraft is kind of a bad example. Its litteraly a bunch of the most youtube clickbait mods mashed together to make prime youtube reaction material. Gameplay is kinda mid if you are actually trying to do a long playthrough. Id say something like a terrafirma modpack would be a better example. It changes almost every aspect of the entire game while keeping it fair. Also when you were listing off what the thorium mod adds you listed off the 3 events that are already in the game lol. Goblin armies, solar eclipses, and pirate invasions have been in the game for ages.

Apologies because I'm definitely not the first person to mention this, but morrowind and oblivion also came packaged with creation kits that are just about as fleshed out as skyrims is. Morrowind's most insane mod (Tamriel Rebuilt) has been in development since before morrowind even released. Oblivion has lots of really competent mods too but i mostly remember silly stuff like zombie invasion. Just felt like mentioning!

Excellent video. Snappy and to the point

Not a single valve game?

Skyrim modders just added ChatGPT to be able to talk to NPCs. They have real conversations with you and other NPCs and remember what you and other NPCs have talked to them about. This is crazy. I can't wait until future RPG games are like this.

Rimworld is another HUGE game with a gigantic modding scene that deserves a spot.

Black Ops 3 Zombies had a faithful recreation of Silent Hill PT hidden in a Minecraft horror map. That’s a game that deserves a video

As a PC player who's all time favorite games are minecraft, skyrim and terraria this was an absolute treat of a video to watch. For years i've offhandedly preached minecraft and skyrim modding communities being possibly the biggest out there, not just in the amount of mods but the extensiveness too. From entire mechanic overhauls, to entire game overhauls and adding functions you couldn't even thing would be possible, like adding browser screens that can access the internet in minecraft, or using graphics mods and some screenshotting focused tools to turn skyrim into a Blender competitor for making 3D art scenes. To be honest though, i personally don't enjoy minecraft, modded or vanilla, and my love for it is purely out of me spending thousands of hours watching minecraft videos and playing it a bit as a kid. Meanwhile i have thousands of hours in both terraria and skyrim, out of sheer replayability of them only exaggerated by the mods.

My guy almost gaslit me thinking that Pirate invasion, goblin army, and solar eclipse are a modded content

Fallout is getting conversion mods to make essentially sequel games within the game. You can play fallout 3 in new Vegas, they are porting 3 and new Vegas to 4, and making expansions like fallout Miami and fallout London. Morrowind some fans I guess remade the game in Unity to push mod support. Also not talking about skywind and skyblivion is pretty nuts(Skyrim mods being made to replay morrowind and oblivion in Skyrim engine). Also Skyrim together, a mod to play Skyrim with friends! Starfield even without access to the creation kit already has a crazy amount of mod support you can at this point turn it into a Star Wars rpg. Star Wars battlefront 2 has essentially a fan made mod that turned it into battlefront 3. Lastly elden ring, the amount of content people have added to the games, seamless coop which allows you to play the entire game seamlessly with a friend is insane. Put together with the combat overhauls and magic spells and weapons addons and it’s also in modded heaven. Not by meeting the standards but by the same reasoning as terarria

The goblin army, pirate invasion, and solar eclipse aren't from thorium mod, they're part of vanilla terraria

Me when you said lucky blocks: "Now that's a name i haven't heard in a long time."

To add on to the Mojang and Minecraft modding topic: Mojang is actually relatively supportive of mods and have done one major thing to assist in making the game much easier to mod: Starting in 2019, they began releasing the deobfuscation mappings for the game. Which basically is used to make reverse engineering the game code easier, meaning modding APIs can now update within a matter of days to weeks instead of taking weeks to months.

Also STALKER is higlhy moddable. Even tho it still have the same vibes, there is a ton of mods for that games that really plays like another chapter of game with new weapons, story, locations and mechanics.

watching this while I scroll through my 1300 mod skyrim modlist

17:38 Damn that mod looks sick

The most amazing modding I've seen is in RimWorld. There's literally anything and everything you can think of n the game is designed to be approachable from that perspective. Truly amazing.

I am surprised that Rimworld was not mentioned. Good video regardless!

37:31 That'll pair nicely with the lawnmower item and the Santa claus Npc in the base game.

GTA San Andreas definitely deserves to be in a part 2! Loved the vid ❤

I think it's worth mentioning that modern Minecraft mods do make use of a significant portion of the game's built-in extensibility. Things like custom crafting recipes, advancements, loot tables, textures, models, and sounds, are supported completely out-of-the-box with moderns versions of the game. And it appears we're very close to getting full custom blocks and items soon-ish as well.

Used to download so much modded Minecraft clients 10 years ago. Even made my own back on planet Minecraft

Direct modding support has been around in Elder Scrolls games since at least Morrowind. It was called the Construction Set before and they also did it for Fallout games where it was called the Garden of Eden Construction Kit.

Awesome video. I would say that a game series I personally view as a modding heaven would probably have to be Pokémon. I mean people have made entirely new games in the engines of various Pokémon games, turning the games into dungeon crawlers, turn-based RPGs, open sandboxes or even detective games. The only thing I'd say it lacks from being a true Modding Heaven would be the fact that Nintendo and the Pokémon company actively are against any kind of mods or rom hacks based on the franchise, going as far as taking down mods and rom hacks for the pettiest of reasons. On the flip side, it does have a lot of fan-made modding and rom hacking tools that can allow anyone, even those without coding and technnology know how can make their own(I would know, I messed around with some of those tools and I did manage to edit the base gameplay loop of Pokémon pretty easily). Definetely needs to be included in a possible Part 2 of this video.

this dude saw the cobblemon trailer and got to work

i just love these games, im so glad for the mods(most rts games are also good for mods)