Minecraft – I can’t get any mods working!

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I can't get any mods working! I can download the mods just fine. I always drop them into my "mods folder" and everything seems to be going okay, but every time I boot up minecraft it just goes on normally as if I hadn't downloaded any mods at all! It doesn't even crash! What am I doing wrong? I already installed Forge to "teach" minecraft to recognise mods but it's not working either…

Best Answer

Regular Minecraft doesn't know what mods are, so it will completely ignore your mods folder and never do anything with any files you put in there unless you "teach" it to look there, and what to do with the files it finds.

The usual "teaching" method is by installing Forge, which is exactly designed to teach Minecraft to look for and load stuff you put in the mods folder (among other things relevant only to mod-makers).

Installing Forge is really simple:

  1. Download it. Choose the "Recommended" build for your version of Minecraft, and click the "installer" link.
  2. Run the installer.
  3. In the Minecraft launcher, choose the new profile named "Forge" or similar and click Play.

If you want greater explanation of how the installation process works, you can read the Installation article on the Forge Wiki.

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