The Minecraft dual wielding feature is often confusing to casual gamers, while beginner gamers sometimes avoid the feature entirely. However, once you acquire some knowledge of how it works and key combinations to use, you can become even more efficient when conquering the world of Minecraft.
This post will teach you about three categories of usage: fighting, mining, and building. Dual wielding tremendously improves all of those gameplay aspects while holding on to the same Minecraft play-style that we know and love. After all, two hands are better than one!
The previous articles in this series provided the basis for setting your profiles to support Minecraft 1.11.2 mods. By using a Forge and Liteloader profile, it is now a simple matter of downloading the mod and placing it into the ‘mods’ folder found in ‘.minecraft’. I recommend you try them one at a time so you can see which could cause problems if the game ever fails to run, and to better understand what each mod alters.
You have already seen how easy it is to install Forge for Minecraft 1.11.2. Its installer simply creates a new profile (the uses of which we have already covered). In this article, I will show you how to install Liteloader, which is actually just generating a new profile in the same way that Forge did.
A mod-loader is simply a utility that is designed to do just that: load mods. They serve as technical foundations in the background of installations for an assortment of mods which introduce actual gameplay or aesthetic changes. Mod-loaders also enable mods which utilize them to be compatible with each other. There are a few different mod-loaders, however most mods use either Forge or Liteloader. Given that it is so essential, in this article I will show you how to install Forge and in the next, Liteloader.