Minecraft Forge is a mod that acts as a mods manager, which allows you to easily install many mods, simply by installing all the mods in your mods folder, there are already many mods creators, who design their mods to be compatible with Minecraft Forge, thanks to their manager advantage and compatibility with the different mods that are designed for Minecraft Forge.
The Minecraft Forge API is a modding API (Application Programming Interface), which makes it easy to create mods, and also ensures that mods are compatible with each other. It is the basis of most of Minecraft’s current mods. Developers can customize Mincecraft based on it. With Minecraft Forge, Minecraft is unlimited. For this purpose, Forge staff has always updated versions to make the mods compatible with the Minecraft update.
Customizing Minecraft is possible thanks to the mods that circulate on the Internet. In a short tutorial, we explain how to install them thanks to Forge, a little trick to get the most out of this popular open world game.
Playing video games on a PC has several advantages. One of them is the ease of installing mods or modified versions, i.e. patches that add or change part of the content. Minecraft is one of the titles that has more and better mods, and is that its players strive to improve a game that is already quite free.
Any open world offers hours of fun, but because of its aesthetics and performance, this block-built video game lends itself to the installation of several enhancements. We’ve seen a variety of them, with special mention of one who turns his pixel maps into a recreation of the original Pokémon games.
This videogame does not work the same on a console and a PC. Obviously, the controls are different. There are also differences from a graphic point of view. Probably the hardest hit gamers prefer to play it on the computer. However, the gameplay is excellent on any platform.
Installing a mod in a game is a step you take when you have accumulated hours and hours of gameplay. In this case, it’s hard to get bored, although you can always enrich the experience. Since virtually all titles can be played online, there is less need for content extensions. Plus, the one that receives the most and the one that receives the least DLC expansions continuously.
Below we explain in a short tutorial how to install Minecraft mods in all operating systems where you can play.
Before installing a patch on Minecraft you have to download Forge. It is an Open Source tool that is used to apply your mods. You can do it from their official website, where you must select the version you currently have.
It is available on all operating systems as it runs in Java. Whether you are a Windows, macOS or Linux user you can download the installer directly from the above mentioned page.
When running it select Install Client and wait for the process to complete. It is installed just like any other PC program.
Now comes the essential step to play Minecraft using mods. It’s not a tricky trick, as these patches with extra content for PC games have always been installed the same way.
First you have to find the best mod or the one that best suits your needs. There are many websites on the Internet that specialize in distributing the content created by the user community, so you will have no problem finding a wide variety of files.
Once you have located it, download it to your computer. The result will probably be a compressed file of type.zip or.rar. Normally, you don’t need to unzip it, but if you do, you can use one of these tools until you have a Java.jar file left.
Be very careful when selecting the download: download only the mods compatible with the version of the game you have. Otherwise it won’t work.
Download:
-> Minecraft Forge for Minecraft 1.13 and 1.12.2
Almost everyone who has already modified their game has already installed Forge, but do you know the exact purpose of Forge?
Created in July 2011 by Spacetoad, the API Forge aims to avoid incompatibilities between mods by offering modders many features.
Spacetoad is the creator of the Buildcraft mod. At the time, mods worked mainly with ModLoader and server mods also needed ModloaderMP.
Some mods directly modified Minecraft’s code: they are called “mod vanilla” (there are always some, not to be confused with mods using command blocks) their main disadvantage is that they are only very rarely compatible between them.
Modloader thus made it possible to install several mods at the same time without too many compatibility problems. However for Buildcraft version 2.0, Spacetoad wanted to add a new liquid in the model: oil.
In order for this feature to be implemented, Spacetoad had no choice: it had to directly modify the Minecraft bucket code (in the Minecraft bucket code, there is a function that makes that if you right click with it and point water, then the water is removed and the empty bucket is replaced by a bucket of water, the same for lava. This is where Spacetoad should have added a code that does the same thing with oil).
So he was faced with the following problem: if another mod also adds a fluid in the same way, the last mod installed will cancel the other mod’s changes, or even worse it will crash the game. So they won’t be compatible.
To solve this problem Spacetoad then created Forge. Rather than each mod modifies the Minecraft files and thus becomes incompatible, Forge will modify these files and add functions allowing the mod to do what it wanted to do without modifying these files.
Thanks to Forge, mods have been able to add ever more complex features to the game without being incompatible with each other. Eloraam (creator of the redpower mod, the old ones probably know this mod) quickly joined the project and added a lot of necessary functionality for her redpower mod.
After that, Spacetoad didn’t have the time to take care of the project and gave the hand to LexManos. The latter was later joined by cpw who created FML (Forge Mod Loader) to replace Modloader and ModloaderMP with a more modern solution.
Indeed until the beginning of version 1.13, Forge was still dependent on Modloader and ModloaderMP. So there were several things to install, it wasn’t as simple as it is now. Forge is just a huge library of functions for modders, but did not load mods.
The latest versions of Forge 1.13 were no longer dependent on Modloader & ModloaderMP but on FML which was integrated directly into Forge. Recently (last year), Forge and FML were merged into a single project. However we can still see in the mods menu that there are two distinct parts. Besides from the Forge mods menu you can also see a mod named MCP. This is not really a mod but the tool used to create mods.
Thanks to these various evolutions, Forge is now very simple to install since it is enough to execute its automatic installer. At the time it was necessary to open the minecraft jar with an extraction software and replace some minecraft files by Modloader files, then by those of ModloaderMP then finally by those Forge… A complex installation which took time.
