Minecraft Forge is an API providing extra modding capabilities. These capabilities have been added to provide support for the different mods using the Forge. As of today, the forge contains. If you want to installed the Minecraft Forge API / compatibilty layers. You only need to do this once for all mods requiring it. Note that certain mod may include Minecraft Forge in their code, in which case you don’t have to install the forge, but it’s no harm to add it on top of the existing installation.
Features:
- Infinite terrain and sprite indexes
- Support two-pass rendering
- Custom redstone connection direction
- Override block replacement/deletion
- Secondary properties for block (isNormal, isReplaceable, isAir, isBurning)
- Allow an item to have the first callback on a mouse click
- Custom explosion resistances by block and direction
- Custom filled buckets
- Custom armors
- Modification of list of mineable objects
- Advanced configuration files
Installation Tutorial
- Open your Minecraft launcher.
- Open the “Options” menu near the “login” button
- Use the link in the Options menu to open the .minecraft directory
- Navigate to the bin folder.
- Open minecraft.jar and the Forge version you downloaded with appropriate archive software. (i.e WinRAR, 7-Zip)
- Drag all contents from Forge into the minecraft.jar
- Delete the META-INF folder from the minecraft.jar
- Close both minecraft.jar and Forge download.
- Go back to the .minecraft directory.
For Windows users, you just have to run install.cmd. If you’re on linux, you need to copy files and apply patch manually for now, let me know if you got any trouble there. A install.sh for linux users too is on the way, but in the meantime, let us know if you have any setup problems.
Or just run the launcher from the command line: java -jar Minecraft.exe. And make sure you’re using the proper Forge version for your MC version. The download thread has all the info you need.
Download Link
1.5 : http://files.minecraftforge.net/
1.4.7: http://adf.ly/IF8Sy
1.4.6: http://files.minecraftforge.net/
Changelogs:
- Update to Minecraft 1.4.7
New:
- New hooks to control map rendering per-world
- New cloud renderer hooks
- MASSIVE number of new terrain gen events to allow control over almost all aspects fo terrain gen
- Decompile now provides proper packages for minecraft classes
- FML and Forge classes are now signed, and mods can test if they are signed as well.
Bug Fix:
- Kill install if astyle isnt found
- Fix ForgeDirection.ROTATION_MATRIX
- Creative GUI will now remember what tab page you were on
- Make PlaySoundAtEntityEvent fire for players as well
- Remove erronious double call to PlayerDestroyItemEvent
- Fix up block drops for skulls and cocoa