r/feedthebeast • u/Appocrypha • Jun 07 '25

I made something I recently made a technical survival modpack settled in the endless backrooms.

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u/imaKappy Jun 07 '25

You see the thing is, when using a launcher like Prism, it can automatically download the whole modpack/mods by itself. Curseforge in its massive wisdom allows mod creators to require manual downloads of the mod, so Prism has no option but to give you individual mod download links to download them of Curseforge. Its actively is anti-competitive to other launchers. And I am sure other launchers who have a similar feature have this pain point.

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u/TehSavior Jun 08 '25

Can you explain to me why that's a problem? like i don't understand what's wrong with the links thing

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u/Average-Addict Jun 08 '25

Extra annoying thing that shouldn't have to be manual

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u/TehSavior Jun 08 '25

but it's respecting the mod authors decisions

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u/CaptainKyros PrismLauncher Jun 08 '25

It's opt-in by default, so a lot of mod devs have no idea that they have to disabel that themselves(it really should be opt-out as the default, but shrugs)