Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

As a parent trying to understand the world of Minecraft and its Mods (and their installer apps), I give this installer app 5 stars. It has a lot of mods to pick from, each mod states what version of Minecraft it will work on before you install it, and they are easy to install. Most of these mods seem to work for either 0.14 or version 0.13. A few work for "any version" of Minecraft. That is the end of my product review. ---- I would have paid money to have someone explain this mysterious world of Minecraft to me, but I had to figure it out all on my own. I actually watched Youtube videos made my 9 year olds to learn some of this stuff. To save other parents the grief, I'm going to take up space and explain it here. Perhaps it will help you decide if this purchase is right for you: Minecraft is the game. PE means the game is not installed on a normal computer, but instead on a small device (like a kindle). Mods are kind of like little gifts you can send into the game (for instance, you want your kid to have a stronger pick axe, or endless amounts of hay to feed the cows, or even guns). This Pocket Mods Installer lets you pick from dozens of mods. That said, Minecraft has a lot of different versions. A version like 0.13.0 is a slightly older version than 0.14.0. Some mods ONLY work for version 0.13.0. Some mods only work in 0.14.0. Some mods will work with any version. In order to find out what version you have, turn your device on (kindle), go too your apps, and click on your minecraft game. As soon as it boots up and you see the icons "play", "options" and "skins", you are in the right area. Don't press anything. Just look in the very bottom right corner of that screen. You'll see what version you have. You need to find mods that agree with that version. Once you find the Mod you want to give your kid, you need a mod installer. I use BlockLauncher Pro by Zhuowei Zhang - sold here on Amazon for $3. BlockLauncher then turns into the new Minecraft game (you no longer click on the Minecraft icon on your device to play Minecraft - you click on BlockLauncher instead). Once you click on it, it looks and plays just like Minecraft, but it has all the little gifts inside, waiting to be used. How do you use them? After you find a mod you want (from this blue Pocket Mods Installer), you tap the "install" button, located at the bottom of the mod's description. Then you close the Pocket Mods Installer and click on BlockLauncher to open the game. On the game's home screen you will see a little picture of a wrench in the top center. You click on that wrench, then click on "Manage ModPE Scripts" and then tap the mod you just sent there, and then click the "View Source" button, then the "import" button. Voila: they are in the game and ready to use. One exception: if the mod is supposed to used for Survival mode, you then have one more step to complete: you need to go back to the game's home screen, click the "Play" button, create a "New" (or open an existing world that was created in survival mode), once the game loads, you will see a small chat icon (it looks like a text bubble). For me, it's right next to the wrench. You tap that chcat bubble, then type the command that you were told to type. You find that command in the mod description. The commands usually look like this: /plants or, /horses . After you type the correct code, the game accepts the plant mods and you can find them in the inventory. Some of these gifts/mods only need imported once (gift unwrapped) and they are usable. Others, though, need a zip file imported to the game (the gift needs batteries). In the game of Minecraft, that second import is called the 'texture pack'. It only takes about 5 extra seconds to get it into the game, but if your device is not "Rooted", the texture pack can't be imported. The $50 Kindle Fire HD 7 (generation 5) is not rooted. When that happens, you just get lots of error messages that you have to X out of before you can begin to play the game. But the game still works, just not with that mod. At that point, you can delete the mod out of the game pretty easily. This particular Pocket Mods Installer has a TON of mods to pick from. And, it seems to me that new ones get added often and updates seem to also be provided (but I'm not memorizing anything, so I could be wrong about this). Some of the mods have texture packs that need imported, while others don't. Some mods are just for Creative worlds, while others are for the Survival mode. Some mods work in both. Just read the description and you'll know which one it works for. Usually. ;) Not every mod has a good description.