Editing Minecraft guide (section)

=== Mods you want ===
''Do not try to install a mod for a previous version!'' Until Notch finishes (or even starts) working on the mod API, every client-side and single-player mod needs to replace pieces of the java code, and the pieces move around between every release.

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* [http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/232701 MCPatcher HD textures] - allows texturepacks that have more detail than the default 16x16 pixels. (Though you don't need this because Notch fixed it in minecraft 1.3.1.)
* [http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/75440 Risugami's ModLoader] - This is a prerequisite for almost every mod except for MCPatcher. Risugami was tired of waiting for Notch, and wrote her own mod API. Another modloader named 'Forge' is getting popular.
* [http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/482147 Rei's Minimap] - gives you an overhead map in the corner, with your X/Y/Z coordinates, and indicators for per-server waypoints you set.
* [http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/249637 Optifine] - replaces a lot of the crappy OpenGL code that is in Minecraft with better stuff. Replaces the in-game "Video Settings..." menu with more controls.
* [http://bit.ly/spcmod Single Player Commands] - debugmode / godmode commands for when you're playing SSP. This is what YouTube video makers use when you see them flying over the landscape. Also lets you do [http://wiki.sk89q.com/wiki/WorldEdit/Reference worldedit] shit, like spawning a sphere of smoothstone in one step.
* [http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/748553 Mine Little Pony] - for those times when you think Minecraft just isn't gay enough.
* zombe's modpack - mostly single-player, but some crazy stuff anyways: boom, builder, cart, cheat, cloud, compass, craft, dig, fly, furnace, ore, path, recipe, resize, safe, spawn, sun, teleport, weather, wield. Warning: some servers can detect when you're using the 'fly' mod, and might kick&ban you for it.