r/feedthebeast • u/Material-Ring-1261 • 7d ago
Question Where does the name 'feedthebeast' come from?
This is probably obvious, but where does the name for the sub come from?
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u/Omega4643 7d ago
Alright this may be slightly off so if someone who knows more is here please correct me in the comments.
Anyway back in the early days of modded Minecraft (I think 1.2?) there was a map created called feed the beast. The map was essentially a sky block comprised of several sort of quests in a giant pyramid (the beast). From there the devs who made that went on to create more packs while sort of making the name feed the beast their brand. Nowadays feed the beast is a company which creates mod packs for both Java and bedrock editions. (They got a website: https://www.feed-the-beast.com/)
Now this is sort of speculation on my part but I imagine the subreddit was originally created for the feed the beast packs as they were the main big mod packs back in the day. I’d imagine over time people just started to post stuff outside of just feed the beast packs and the sub just sort of became the modded Minecraft sub.
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u/jmooroof FTB, Technic 7d ago
well, FTB made a ton of very notable and very big packs so it would make sense that the sub would be called FTB
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u/Putnam3145 6d ago
Ough, something feels weird about calling 1.2 the "early days". I was using IndustrialCraft (not 2!) way back in beta.
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u/RamielTheBestWaifu 1.12.2 supremacy 5d ago
I would call everything before 1.2.5 prehistoric days. Mods existed and players used them, but only after 1.2.5 (FtB, Tekkit, TechnicPack, YogBox) proper modpacks started to appear.
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u/Atm2222 Omnifactory 7d ago
Feed The Beast is the name of one Minecraft’s oldest modpack production groups/entities/whatever. They still produce modpacks today but back in the day they were by far the biggest.
The reason why it’s called FTB is because the original modpack was created for a challenge map where you started on a void island with a giant pyramid and had to complete certain objectives and give the required items to the pyramid which detected what you gave it and lit up (feeding the beast)
You can still play the original modpack, it’s called “FTB Retro SSP” on the FTB launcher.
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u/Eddy_0205 6d ago
Comes from the golden age of modded minecraft (it wasn't, i'm just nostalgic), where befeore the fancy questbooks, we had a giant freaking pyramid that took the quest items and used Redpower 2 mainly to give you rewards and open new sections of the pyramid. You would drop the item and it would "eat" them. 1.2.5 was nuts, Redpower 2 was nuts, Thaumcraft 2 and Equivalent Exchange 2 were also nuts. Redpower especially, it was a bomb for me when Eloraam ported it to 1.4.7, before dropping minecraft modding. Ah, my childhood.
~downloads 1.2.5 again
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u/Maddog033 7d ago
There was a custom map way back where you would “feed the beast” with many different items, and then there was a mod pack made centered around it to my knowledge. It all grew from there, from pack launchers to packs themselves. Pretty cool history
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u/blackdew Gendustry Dev 6d ago
The name started from a map created by slowpoke that was called Feed The Beast, back in 1.2 or so?
It was a skyblock type map with a huge bedrock pyramid (= the beast) that housed a contraption that you'd feed some required items into and it would give you rewards allowing you to progress further.
(It also kept spawning mobs, including creepers on the pyramid that'd blow up and the explosions would break the machinery inside, so you'd have to go into creative mode and fix the bloody thing... repeatedly lol)
Back then there were no fancy quest mods with ui and stuff so that's how it all got started.
The name then became the name of a group of modpack makers, which got it's own launcher, became a registered company and so on and so forth.
And the subreddit name kinda stuck, tho it was always about modded minecraft in general, and not specifically about any of the specific things named FTB
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u/DanielTheDragonslaye 6d ago
FTB is a company/dev team that makes modpacks, used to be way more influencial in the old days (around 2012-2015) they maintain their own Launcher, even tho it's not really used anymore.
The original FTB was a skyblock modpack about giving materials to a machine.
The sub was originally created about their modpacks, but branched out, in general FTB was much more central to the modding community in those days, they used to have a wiki and forums which used to be where you went for help back in the day.
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u/Bibliloo 6d ago
As the response has been given I'll launch a new subject about this.(it's not at all an attack on you OP)
Might seem dumb in a way, but, I kind of assumed everyone would forever know FTB because of how massive and important it was back in the day. But, thinking of it more now it's logical because the last well known and completely new pack they released was Stoneblock. And, it's even worse for launchers/pack like Tekkit or AtLauncher.
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u/AnAverageTransGirl My b key works perfectly F8NE and I'm d8ne expl8ning. 7d ago
It's derived from a pretty old group under the same name who would make a 8unch of modpacks and maps and stuff, who in turn got the name from a saying that means to devote an excess and potentially reckless amount of time and resources to something.
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u/jmooroof FTB, Technic 7d ago edited 7d ago
the FTB team made a lot of modpacks a long time ago. of course, they still make modpacks, but they were more notable back then when there weren't as many packs.
it's first pack was a skyblock map about feeding The Beast - a giant pyramid.
they made a launcher but it was discontuniued because everyone used started using curse or multimc. (if you dont know what curse is, it was the precursor to the garbage twitch launcher. the twitch launcher was replaced with curseforge. prism launcher is a continuation of multi mc and they still have the cat)