Burgers With Benefits
Burgers With Benefits is a curated Pixelmon modpack built for players who want to catch, train, and battle together without wrestling with server setup. Instead of renting a server or configuring port forwarding, this pack leans on Essential to turn any singleplayer world into a shared co-op session in seconds. If you have been searching for a way to explore the Pixelmon world with a friend, this add-on delivers exactly that with a stack of quality-of-life extras layered on top.
What Makes This Pixelmon Pack Different
Most Pixelmon modpacks dump hundreds of mods on you and call it a day. Burgers With Benefits takes the opposite approach: it revolves completely around Essential, the mod that handles friend lists and world hosting. You add each other as friends using your Minecraft usernames, then press the host world button and pick a previously created world or spin up a new one. That is hosting, not a dedicated server, so if the person hosting the world leaves, everyone else gets kicked. It is a small trade-off for zero cost and zero configuration.
Beyond the hosting backbone, the pack bundles building and mining mods alongside a pile of quality-of-life tidbits. A nightvision mod is included for convenience, which makes cave exploration and night-time catching far less tedious. Purists might call it cheating, but this is Pixelmon, not vanilla Minecraft, and the pack author is upfront about the intent.
Essential Hosting and Claim Protection
Playing With Friends Through Essential
The co-op flow is simple. Both players install the pack, add each other through Essential using their Minecraft usernames, and one player hosts the world. There is no whitelist to manage and no IP address to share. Because this is world hosting rather than a server, sessions are live only while the host is online, so plan your play sessions around whoever is running the world.
One heads-up worth repeating: some key binds overlap between the bundled mods. Before your first session, open your controls menu and check for conflicts, especially around Flan and any building mods. A few minutes of remapping saves a lot of frustration later.
Land Claims With Flan
Flan is installed to keep your builds safe from accidental griefing. The system is straightforward:
- Use a golden hoe to claim land for your base.
- Use a stick to view existing claims and see who owns what.
- Run the /flan menu command to manage permissions and settings.
For a co-op pack, this matters. Two players sharing a world will inevitably build close together, and claims prevent a stray pickaxe swing from wrecking a storage room. Set up claims early, especially around your Pixelmon PC boxes and breeding areas.
If you would rather skip manual mod management entirely, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install path for Burgers With Benefits, pulling the correct mod versions automatically so your friend can join without hunting down individual files.
Supported Versions and Loaders
Burgers With Benefits is distributed as a modpack, which means it ships with a fixed set of mod versions tested to work together. Pixelmon modpacks of this type typically target Minecraft 1.16.5 or 1.20.1 on Forge, since Pixelmon itself is a Forge mod and does not run on Fabric or NeoForge in most builds. Check the pack page for the exact Minecraft version and Forge release before you download Burgers With Benefits, and make sure every player in your group matches that version exactly. Mismatched Forge builds are the most common reason a friend cannot connect.
How to Install Burgers With Benefits for Minecraft
Installation follows the standard modpack routine. First, install the correct Minecraft version and Forge build for your pack release. Next, import the modpack through your launcher of choice, or drop the mod files into your mods folder if you are assembling it manually. Then launch the game once to generate configs, close it, and review your key bindings for conflicts. Finally, add your friends through Essential, host the world, and start catching.
Keep in mind that everyone needs the same mod list. If one player adds an extra mod, the host and guests can desync or crash on join. Treat the pack as a locked set unless everyone agrees to change it together.
Final Thoughts
Burgers With Benefits fills a specific niche well: small-group Pixelmon play without server costs or technical headaches. Essential handles the connection, Flan handles the protection, and the bundled quality-of-life mods handle the grind. It is not built for large public servers, and the host-leaves-everyone-kicked limitation is real, but for two to four friends who want a shared Pixelmon world tonight rather than next weekend, this pack is hard to beat.