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Intro A recommended song for reading this article is Forgotten Friend by Mammal Hands, as it's what I listened to during a large portion of the events described. I play a Minecraft modpack with a close friend of mine, Shea. The modpack in specific is Better MC 5 NeoForge, which is on the Minecraft version 1.21.1. We started playing this modpack together approximately 5 months ago, around Christmas time, and have played it frequently since. When we started, the modpack version was v45(.0). Also, the server we played on was on a VPS located in ██████. Over time, we would gradually see the version number on an update alert increase, 46, 47, 48... Eventually, Shea and I agreed that I would update the modpack once version 50 was released—I was hesitant to do so due to a fear of potential issues arising from updating the modpack, as there is and was no built in server-side updating mechanism (though updating the clients is like, four clicks and forty seconds in prism launcher). Around a…