Modpack Permission

Can I use Galacticraft in a modpack?

Yes. Under Galacticraft's license, permission is automatically granted for modpacks, as long as you're not charging money for your modpack. There's one important condition: you have to keep the Galacticraft version in your pack reasonably up to date: see further below.

What does "as long as you're not charging money" mean? Advertisements on the download page for your modpack are OK. Offering your modpack on a website connected with a donation based server running the pack is OK. So what is not OK? Selling the modpack, including as a package on a disk or via digital download, would not be cool. Offering it on a 'pay-to-win' server, where only donators get access to specific Galacticraft features or items needed to progress to the end of the game or fully enjoy the mod, is not OK - the exact same way that would be in breach of Mojang's EULA. (But: setting up a server to allow only donators access to cosmetic features of Galacticraft, for example the Space Race commands and the ability to design your own flag, would be OK with us.)

A modpack must not incorporate the word "Galacticraft" in its name or present itself as being an "official" Galacticraft modpack. It isn't official, unless we say so here. (There are no official Galacticraft modpacks at this time.)

You can change config settings of course, and make any specific recipe changes you need in customised packs (for example using MineTweaker). Except for that, you are not allowed to modify Galacticraft in modpacks - see License sections 28 and 37 for full details. If something needs fixing, come ask us or make a pull request on the Github.

Keeping up to date

We do not appreciate modpacks which continue to distribute old versions of Galacticraft which are many months old and have known issues, when a newer version of Galacticraft is available. There is basically no reason not to update Galacticraft in a pack, Galacticraft maintains legacy compatibility with older and newer versions of other mods (for example, it is compatible with the 1.7.2 versions of everything as well as the latest) so - unlike many other mods - updating Galacticraft will not break anything. Also - unlike many other mods - we do not increase the minimum Forge version requirement, so a new Galacticraft will work 100% fine in an older modpack.

Tips for modpacks

• Author credit and a link to www.micdoodle8.com would be appreciated as a thank you for the work we do in creating and maintaining the mod.

• You are advised to use the very latest version when you create your pack (not the latest 'stable' version, the actual most recent version)

• You must regularly check for Galacticraft updates, because Galacticraft gets updated a lot. Each time we do a minor version update, like 3.0.10 -> 3.0.11, is a sign that players and modpacks should also be updating. If you don't update, your players will be left behind and we cannot support long outdated versions of the mod.

• Any serious compatibility issues with other mods, please do report them to us at https://github.com/micdoodle8/Galacticraft/issues or ask your players to report them directly to us there. We will look at fixing them, the aim is for Galacticraft to be 100% compatible with all other major mods. (But we will get irritable if people report issues which are already fixed in the latest version!)

• Make sure you set the configs properly - see next section.

Configs

You will need to read all this on the wiki to set up a good config file:

• Game_Balance

• Config

• Compatibility

• Oregen

• SealableIDs

• Energy