
minecraft/bin directory, neither of which exist in recent versions of Minecraft. For example, they talk about modifying the minecraft.jar and files in the. I found the following video helpful since many of the online howtos are either terrible or written for older versions of Minecraft. Also, you must first install something called Minecraft Forge () or just " Forge" for short, and it must be the version of Forge that matches the specific version of Minecraft you need to run (as required by the mod). For example, to run the OreSpawn mod you need to use Minecraft 1.7. At the time of this writing the current version of Minecraft is 1.10.x. One major dependency to note is the Minecraft version. The first thing I noticed when I started looking at Minecraft mods is dependencies. When you launch Minecraft be sure to select Forge from the Play menu.See the "Additional Notes" section near the bottom of this article for more info on installing and running the java version of Minecraft on Linux. Drag and drop the downloaded file into your new mods directory in the ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/mods folder.Find the mod on the web you want to install and download the file to your computer. It will be a file ending in.Go to Application Support > minecraft in Finder and create a new folder called mods.Open Finder on your Mac and go to Go > Library in the menu.


Navigate to the downloads folder and find the file you downloaded.Download the latest version of Minecraft Forge from here (choose the Installer):.There are three main steps – install Forge, create a mods folder, install mods. That was almost four years ago and is now out of date so here’s an updated version. I wrote that old post after going through the process of installing mods for my then seven-year-old son who was determined to play mods.

I guess no one really cares how I spent my weekend but clearly a lot of people want to know how to hack Minecraft. Nothing else I’ve ever written has come anywhere close to the popularity of that post.

My most popular post of all time by far is a documentation page about how to install Minecraft mods on a Mac.
