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Install Fabulous

Fabulous is a modpack developer by the Server's owner. It is based on Fabulously Optimized, one of the most famous modpacks out there, featuring incredible optimization and being the direct and modern replacement for OptiFine.

Fabulous takes the speed of FO and adds tons of QoL mods on top of that. Among its many features, it ships by default with:

  • Simple Voice Chat: adds proximity voice chat, which allows players to talk directly from inside the game. Combined with Sound Physics Remastered, which Fabulous ships with, it adds a lot of immersion, such as echoes when talking inside a cave.
  • Emotecraft: adds support for emotes by pressing B. Ships some default emotes, but more can be downloaded online or created with Blender or Blockbench.

This mods are required both client and server-side to work. This means that, if playing on a server, both the server and the client (your computer) must have the mod or plugin in order for it to be effective. If installed only on the server, clients without the mods will not have the mentioned features. If installed only on the client, it may show the features locally but other players won't be able to see or hear anything.

Retards Server provides the above plugins, meaning all clients that have the respective mods installed can use those features too.

Users may install them by hand, but for simplicity you may consider installing Fabulous, avoiding most of the setup and benefiting from all the other QoL features it provides.

The modpack is still in development, and feedback or suggestions are highly appreciated. You can open an issue here.

How to install Fabulous

The installation process may vary based on the launcher used.

This guide will explain how to install the modpack on PineconeMC and Prism Launcher. For other launchers, you should find and follow their official guides.

  • On the launcher, click on "New instance" in the top left.
  • On the left sidebar, click on "Modrinth".
  • Search for and click on "Fabulous".
  • In the dropdown right above the "Install" button, make sure the version contains "for MC 26.1.2".
  • Click "Install".

That's it!