Recently (last year), Forge and FML have been merged into a single project. The latest versions of Forge 1.2.5 were no longer dependent on Modloader & ModloaderMP but on FML which was integrated directly into Forge. Forge is just a huge library of functions for modders but didn’t load mods. So there were several things to install, it was not as simple as now. Indeed until the beginning of version 1.2.5, Forge was always dependent on Modloader and ModloaderMP. LexManos was later joined by cpw who created FML (Forge Mod Loader) to replace Modloader and ModloaderMP with a more modern solution. Pretty soon Eloraam (creator of the redpower mod, the old ones surely know this mod) joined the project and added a lot of necessary functionality for his red power mod.Īfterward, Spacetoad didn’t have time to take care of the project anymore and so gave hand to LexManos.

Thanks to Forge, mods have been able to add more and more complex features to the game without being incompatible with each other. Rather than each mod modifies the Minecraft files and thus finds itself incompatible, it is Forge which will be in charge of modifying these files and adding functions allowing the mod to do what it wanted to do without modifying these files. To solve this problem Spacetoad created Forge. So he was faced with the following problem: if another mod adds fluid in the same way, the last installed mod will cancel the modifications of the other one, or even worse it will crash the game. This is where Spacetoad should have added a code that does the same thing with oil). However, for Buildcraft version 2.0, Spacetoad wanted to add a new liquid in the mod: oil.įor this feature to be implemented, Spacetoad had no choice: it had to directly modify the Minecraft bucket code (in the Minecraft bucket code, there’s a function that if you right-click on it and point to water, then the water is removed and the empty bucket is replaced by a bucket of water, same for lava.

Modloader thus allowed to install several mods at the same time without too many compatibility problems. Some mods directly modified the Minecraft code: they are called “vanilla mods” (they still exist, not to be confused with no mods using command blocks) their main disadvantage is that they are very rarely compatible with each other.

History of Minecraft Forge :Īt that time, mods mainly worked with ModLoader, and server mods also needed ModloaderMP. It also provides modders with many features to deeply modify Minecraft. Minecraft Forge is an API created in July 2011 by Spacetoad, and allows users to easily install many mods on Minecraft while avoiding incompatibilities as much as possible.

Minecraft 1.7.1 forge