1.6.2 modded clients

[K0rnfl4k3]

Has anyone at least gotten Forge and Optifine to work together in a client for 1.6.2 yet? I'm having some trouble with it.

[Kaise123]

It's not easy. I haven't gotten them working together yet either, Infact the while new system for installing mods is absolutely abysmal.

[Demonishboy]

Ya i have gotten them to work its weird tho... If u got the optifine on the forum it tells u how to.. it says even tho optifine is not compatible with forge it says to open forge.jar get rid of the meta folder and put the optifine files into it but I havent been able to get somethings into it like tmi being a jar file as well :p

[Kaise123]

Ya i have gotten them to work its weird tho... If u got the optifine on the forum it tells u how to.. it says even tho optifine is not compatible with forge it says to open forge.jar get rid of the meta folder and put the optifine files into it but I havent been able to get somethings into it like tmi being a jar file as well :p

Optifine IS officially compatible with forge. I'm going to give it a shot today, I only tried last night while I was fairly tired. Shouldn't be too difficult

*EDIT: http://puu.sh/3BQxa.jpg Got it working alright. I had to add OptiFine as a library though. Want me to write out a tutorial?

[karathorhikari]

I haven't even gotten 1.6 yet. The force update isn't working for me, and neither is the link at the title screen.

[Hij]

I haven't even gotten 1.6 yet. The force update isn't working for me, and neither is the link at the title screen.

The reason that your Force Update doesn't work is because 1.6.X is on a completely different launcher with completely different settings. Think of 1.5.2 as  that file versions "Final Release". I'm assuming the link at the title screen is the one at the main menu, if it is then check to see if the clickable links option is on (or, you could just search up 1.6 (cracked) launcher on Google...much easier than having to go through the struggle with the links ).

[karathorhikari]

*EDIT: http://puu.sh/3BQxa.jpg Got it working alright. I had to add OptiFine as a library though. Want me to write out a tutorial?

If it's more than just downloading it and putting it in "libraries", that would be extremely helpful, as I have a tendancy to be bad at these things anyway. I do have Optifine 1.6.2 and it's in the same area as the rest of the Minecraft stuff, I just don't know what to do from there.


P.S.;I finally got 1.6.2 to work! 8D

[Kaise123]

Right, Here goes.

Firstly, Do you have any other mods installed? Other mods such as forge sometimes require a different installation method, So from here I'm just going to assume you have a clean Minecraft file. Otherwise, Follow the instructions and add your own mods as you go, and just see if it works.

Step 1: Start with a clean Minecraft folder. It's easiest for the purposes of this tutorial if you don't have any extra mods/misc files hanging around. I assume you know how to get to your appdata folder, So just rename/cut/delete your '.minecraft' folder from there so that it's out of the way. Make sure you back up what you need if you delete it.

Step 2: Open the Minecraft launcher. I'm going to assume your using McOpenLauncher or the Official Minecraft launcher from minecraft.net. If using McOpenLauncher (you DO NOT need to worry about this for the standard launcher), Please set the installation directory to

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C:\Users\<YOURUSERNAMEHERE>\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft making sure to replace the <YOURUSERNAMEHERE> part with your actual username. To set the install folder, Hit the install folder button next to login: http://puu.sh/3IkZq.png. Basically just set the install directory to the standard .minecraft folder.

Step 3: Launch the game as-is to let it download the vanilla Minecraft files. Just put in your username or username/password, And hit play and wait until you are at the main menu for Minecraft. Don't change any options in the launcher unless you really need to/know what your doing. When you are at the main menu, You may now close Minecraft, And the launcher

Step 4: Now open up your .minecraft folder (%appdata%\.minecraft). Inside the .minecraft folder, there should be a folder named '1.6.2' (If your running Minecraft 1.6.2). Make a copy of that folder (Duplicate it in the same folder, whatever you want to call it), then rename it to whatever you want. For the purposes of this tutorial, I'm going to call mine modded. If you don't call yours modded you also need to make sure that you rename other files accordingly. I recommend that you use the name modded

Step 5: Go into your new folder (the copy folder that we made in the last step. Mine's called modded. Now rename the 2 files that are in there (1.6.2.jar and 1.6.2.json for my version) to the same name you called the folder. For me that's modded, so I will rename them both to modded.

As a bit of a recap, We should now have a folder called 'modded' inside 'appdata\roaming\.minecraft\versions' and inside the folder called modded we should have 2 files: modded.jar and modded.json. If you don't understand this or don't quite know how we got to here, thoroughly re-read the instructions until you do.

Step 6: Right click on the modded.json file, And click open with. Select WordPad if its there, otherwise select the default program as WordPad (Note; I say wordpad because everyone has it, however you can use your favorite text editor as long as it doesn't change the format of the document. Notepad++ is the best). Now, in WordPad it looks really confusing but really what you have to do is very simple. Look near the top of the document, You should see something that looks like:

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{
  "id": "1.6.2",

You need to change the part where it says 1.6.2 to 'modded' (Or whatever you called the files and folder, if you didn't call them modded). It should now look like this: http://puu.sh/3IlVj.png at the top. The ONLY thing you change is that ONE WORD. Do NOT touch anything else in this json file. You may now SAVE and close the file.

Step 7: Now re-open the Minecraft launcher - McOpenLauncher or whatever you use. Find the 'New Profile' button in the top right hand side of the launcher: http://puu.sh/3ImbY.png. Click it. Now, Enter 'Modded' as the profile name (Or something else... I don't think it has to be the same as the rest of the files, however it's best to keep it all the same so it's easier to understand). Then, Where it says 'use version', set it to 'release modded' (Or, Again, whatever you called your files and put in the json). The profile editor should look like this: http://puu.sh/3Imqy.png

Note: ONLY IF your using Forge/FML, Add the following arguments to 'JVM arguments':

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-Dfml.ignoreInvalidMinecraftCertificates -Dfml.ignorePatchDiscrepancies so that it looks like this: http://puu.sh/3Imxm.png (Yes, You leave the '-xmx 1G, And you put a space between it and the 2 new arguments). For reference, This makes it so that you can add things to the Jar file without forge crashing/blocking the game from launching.

Step 8: Now select modded from the top right, in the profile drop-down menu. Enter your username at the bottom right. It should look like this: http://puu.sh/3ImF6.png. Now hit the Play button. It should launch to the Main Menu (Be patient... It took about 30 seconds for me on first launch). Now close the game again.

Step 9: Now you are ready to add the mod(s). As you were looking to install OptiFine, I'm going to use that as an example, However this will work for any mods that are supposed to be installed into the Jar file (Mods that come packaged as a .jar file should NOT be installed this way). Firstly, Navigate to your Modded installation directory

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appdata\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\modded. Now, Open modded.jar with WinRar (You can get it for free from http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar50b7.exe). Now remove the 'Meta-Inf' folder. Now get your mod (OptiFine from: http://adf.ly/404181/optifined.net/adloadx.php?f=OptiFine_1.6.2_HD_U_B4.zip) and open it (Also with WinRar). Now, Select all the files in the OptiFine rar, And drag them into your modded.jar file. Now close both of them.

Step 10: It should now work. Launch Minecraft, Making sure that the modded profile is selected. The game should load up with OptiFine installed, If you follow the instructions carefully.


I wrote all this out, So I'm just going to use it on any post that people ask for modding help on