gaming Minecraft/Pokemon help?

[Espurr 449]

So, I'm a noob to minecraft and I'd love to download mods to help make my game much more fun. The thing is (And I'm not a complete noob) that I really love Pokémon. I would love to add Pokémon to my Minecraft game and I heard there are two mods for this. Pokemod and pixelmon. I heard pixelmon was better except I'm not sure what I'm getting myself into. Once I get the mod will it never go away? Will I never get my old minecraft back if I want it to go away? I also heard I have to install it into minecraft by extracting files or something. I'm no computer programmer, but that sounds HARD! So if you have any minecraft experience, SOMEBODY GIVE ME SOME ADVICE! Oh thanks for the advice. (Thanks for the advice when I get the advice and I thank anyone for any kind of advice on this topic.)

Edited January 30, 2014 by Star Ruby

[Barbaloot 198]

So, I'm a noob to minecraft and I'd love to download mods to help make my game much more fun. The thing is (And I'm not a complete noob) that I really love Pokémon. I would love to add Pokémon to my Minecraft game and I heard there are two mods for this. Pokemod and pixelmon. I heard pixelmon was better except I'm not sure what I'm getting myself into. Once I get the mod will it never go away? Will I never get my old minecraft back if I want it to go away? I also heard I have to install it into minecraft by extracting files or something. I'm no computer programmer, but that sounds HARD! So if you have any minecraft experience, SOMEBODY GIVE ME SOME ADVICE! Oh thanks for the advice.

It's a very simple kind of thing

 

The Minecraft application is run through it's .jar file. This file can very easilly be opened by a program such as WinRAR or 7zip. From there, you just Copy and Pate the files from the MOD's .rar. file straight into the minecraft's .jar file. How EXACTLY this is supposed to go, I can't remember, but it's not as hard as it sounds.

 

As for being able to restore it back to how it was, just keep a handy copy of minecraft's .jar. file from before you inserted the mod files into it. Make sure it's a different name, or it might confuse the program. When you need to revert back to normal, simply delete the current (modded) .jar file and rename the copy as before.

[Scootalove 10,689]

You could use WinRAR or 7zip to open the files, copy and paste the files from the Mod files, and make sure to keep a copy of the Minecraft file just in case.