Summary
AMinecraftplayer has created a game mode inspired byOld School RuneScape.Minecraftis the perfect playground for players who like to exercise their creativity. Inventive in-game constructions often get the spotlight, but there’s also love for mods, texture packs, and data packs.
Mods alterMinecraftto make performance adjustments or optimizations and can add content to the game. Meanwhile, data packs are folders that players can add to saved games and customize theMinecraftexperience without code modifications. Through data packs,Minecraftcan get new biomes, dimensions, recipes, and even structures. An example is thedata pack that adds the Backrooms toMinecraft, creating a blocky version of the popular urban legend.
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Reddit user McEMau5 has created a data pack that adds a game mode inspired byOld School RuneScape, one of themost grindy MMOs of all time, toMinecraft. Named Chunklock, the data pack got a trailer that revealed the October release date. In Chunklock,Minecraftplayers must pay a “price” to unlock each chunk, which consists of in-game items such as fish, sticks, ladders, or even gold ingots. This price then gets higher as theMinecraftplayer unlocks more chunks, adding an extra challenge. Chunklock is inspired byOld School RuneScape’s Tileman mode, an unofficial mode popularized by YouTuber Settled where advancing through the tiles is restricted to spending 1,000 XP.
Players on theMinecraftsubreddit received the idea very positively. One Redditor asked how McEMau5 made Chunklock work in The End, theMinecraftdimension where the Ender Dragon lives. The player said that The End was tricky, and explained that when players arrive in this dimension, the chunks around the End crystals are locked. When the player teleport through an End gateway, the chunk the player teleport to is unlocked. A second Redditor asked if it’s possible to get stuck in Chunklock. The player said that they check the biome where the chunk is when they generate the item needed to unlock it. From this chunk, the players will have three more paths to choose from, so the more they play, the less chance they have of getting stuck.
Minecraftremains one of the most popular sandbox games due to its high level of customization and freedom. While mods are the most popular way of customizing the game, data packs offer an equally great potential for entertaining players.
Minecraftis available for Mobile, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and legacy platforms.
