/vrg/ Crawler

What is this?

/vrg/ crawler is a Minecraft server and modpack that converts the game into a co-op dungeon crawling VR game, to the best of our ability. Think Ancient Dungeon, or Dungeons of Eternity, but good. You may enjoy this even if you don't like regular Minecraft.

Features

Waggle Combat

Skills

Classes

Magic

Dungeons

Loot

Download

Just give me the exe nerd

Download PolyMC-crawler.zip, extract to anywhere (it's portable PolyMC with the modpack already set up). No login required. Change the account name from "sneed" if you want.

I have MultiMC/PolyMC/Prism Launcher already

Create a new instance, and choose "import from zip" and paste as the link.

I have my own autistic minecraft launcher setup, just give me the jars

import vr-crawler.mrpack into your launcher of choice somehow. It's a Modrinth modpack file. You'll also have to add crawler.vrg.party as a multiplayer server. Note that if we change things, the pack doesn't automatically update, so we really recommend using polyMC from the other two options to get that set up. You can run it portably, no install required, and it won't mess with your existing minecraft setups.

SteamVR Binding Setup

After you have the instance loaded in launcher, you'll still have to setup the bindings, which is excruciatingly difficult usually. We've managed to automate most of this, but you'll still have to do the following at least one time:

Open the launcher (PolyMC, MultiMC, or Prism Launcher)
Right-click on the VR Crawler instance
Select "Minecraft Folder" to open the .minecraft folder
Locate the file named "setup-steamvr-bindings.vbs"
Double-click the "setup-steamvr-bindings.vbs" script to run it.
the script installs the bindings for you!

Manual Binding Setup

If you don't want to use our recommended bindings, you should at least setup the following bindings:

Combat Roll - Roll
ImmersiveMC VR Bindings - Ranged Grab
VR Jester - Gesture Listener Trigger

in the "Modded" tab of the binding UI. See this visual guide for help on how to do this.

How to Play

Double-click the instance in the launcher. It'll take a while to start up. Once you're in, connect to the server in the multiplayer menu (if it doesn't auto-connect).

If you're entirely new to minecraft/vivecraft, see Vivecraft's How To Play guide for basic info. TODO our bindings are different though, so we'll eventually have some controller pictures for you.

As for actual game mechanics, you will get some books in your inventory that explain things. As usual though, nobody fucking reads those things, so if somebody else is on the server, ask them in voice chat for help.

Is this still just Minecraft?

No. We've optimized this for combat, exploring, and looting, because these are actually fun to do in VR. The usual mining and crafting and building are still possible, but we've found that they just don't lend themselves to actually moving your arms around; inevitably, everyone just logs on in flat mode instead.

If you want a more vanilla experience, try the other /vrg/ NA minecraft server, or one of the servers shilled on /vm/ .

What's actually in the mod pack?

See the full modlist for a nicely categorized list, with expandable full descriptions and links to the modrinth pages.

Something broke / the server is down!

Complain in the thread, I'll see it.

How is the modpack download so small?

The modpack doesn't actually have the jars in it. It uses packwiz-installer to actually download all the jars for you from modrinth, as well as keep the modpack up to date to the changes we make in the git repository for the pack. It's a lot of autism, and packwiz ain't perfect, but it's a lot more maintainable than a directory full of jars.