This was a frustrating process for me, but I finally got it. Watch this video. It’s good and may give you everything you need.

1. Download Minecraft Client For Mac 2018
2. Download Minecraft Client For Mac Os X 10.7.5
3. Download Minecraft Client For Mac Os X 10.6.8

If not (there were a few extra things I needed to do) read on. Download minecraft forge. Goto and download the ‘Installer’ for the most recent recommended version (1.6.4 at this time of writing). To skip the adds, click the ‘.’ beside the word ‘Installer’ on the ‘1.6.4-Recommended’ and download the jar file (it will save to your downloads directory). Save old profile.

The next thing we are going to do is save your current minecraft configuration, before blowing it all away with the new minecraft forge client. Open up your ‘finder’ and click ‘Go to Folder’ Then type in exactly exactly what you see below into the textfield and hit the ‘Go’ button. This will take your to your minecraft application directory where your profile is stored (sorry, I forget to mention you will need to install minecraft on your Mac first before installing forge). Once there drag and drop these files and folders to your desktop. Then blow everything else away in the directory. Create forge profile. Now start your minecraft application.

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This is going to download the latest minecraft version. Now here is where things differ from the video.

If your minecraft client version (1.7.3), is different from the latest forge version (1.6.4), it’s not going to work (at least not yet). We need to create a 1.6.4 profile (the same version as forge) and then things will work. So if your latest client version differs from the forge version, create a new profile matching them up. For example to to create a 1.6.4 profile, click ‘Profile Editor’ at the top of your login screen. Then click ‘New Profile’. Then file in the profile name (pick whatever you want, maybe put 1.6.4 in there so you know the version), and then select ‘release 1.6.4’ for the Use Version, and then ‘Save Profile’.

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Now you have a compatible client that is going to work with your forge! No you can go back to your login screen, select your new 1.6.4 profile, and login. Click ‘Quit Game’ and shut down your minecraft launcher (Command-Q) or right click quit in your application toolbar. Install forge client Drop the files we dragged to the desktop earlier, back into the minecraft application folder we deleted everything from earlier. Select ‘Apply to All’ and then ‘Replace’ Then double click your minecraft forge jar file that we downloaded at the start (downloads directory). If you get this warning message Open your ‘Finder’ and go to your ‘Downloads’ directory manually and ‘right-click’ on the jar file and select open The click ‘Open’ to run the installer Click install client, and make sure that the path in the install directory points to the directory where we stored all your profile stuff. It should look something like this: We are almost there!

You should then see a completion window that says ‘Successfully installed client profile ’ 5. Create client forge profile. Open up minecraft. In the profile areas, a profile option should now appear! Click the ‘Play’ button. And congrats! You should be in.

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You can tell your are running forge by the data in the bottom left hand corner. Installing mods. Forge mods go in the ‘mods’ folder in that directory we where looking at earlier where we did all our profile stuff. This is where you put your forge mods.

That’s it for now! Happy forging! Hi, thank you for a clear, easy-to-follow instructional on this, I’m another parent trying to keep the boy child happy! Unfortunately, no matter how many times we have deleted minecraft & forge and reinstalled following explicit instructions, it still crashes. We’ve tried various mods so I am pretty sure it’s not the mods we are using.

We are missing a step, a file, or program somewhere in the process (Mac users) Do we need the “Unarchiver” app, or some other similar app? Whenever we install forge no desktop icon appears and it can only be found by searching Finder and is only listed in the downloads folder, nowhere else. I hope these ramblings make sense and I hope you can help me figure out what I’ve missed because I’m not sure how many times I can listen to, “Mom, did you figure it out yet?” or “Mom, all my other friends did it easy, I wish we didn’t have a Mac!” Lol!. JR Mar 28, 2014 @ 12:26:42. Would it be awkward to say I love you? LOL honestly though I managed to get Forge installed and even some mods but it was a total PIA of watching multiple videos, different blogs/forums, and then lots of confusion. I love that everything is here in one spot now when I install on our other mac I can just come here 🙂 Do you know if I can install multiple versions of Forge one one computer?

There are some mods for 1.6.4 my daughter wants to use and some for 1.7.2 she wants. JR Apr 22, 2014 @ 02:51:43. I would need to see the error message to help diagnose Ann.

But here is something to look for. You see the name of the file you typed above? There is a space after the numbers 965. Forge-1.6.4-9.11.1.965- universal-2.jar Not sure if you accidentally added a space to the file name, or just typed it that way when you left the message.

But the jar file should have no spaces. If that doesn’t work, try starting again from the beginning. There may have been something that got messed up as you were doing it.

But if you can give me an error message, I could help you more. Cheers – Jonathan. Angela Mar 24, 2018 @ 14:41:57.

I am struggling with this as well. I made it through step 3 and can’t install Forge. I get the error: The Java JAR file “forge.jar” could not be launched. Check the Console for possible error messages. I updated to the latest java per your link (thanks for that). Not sure where to go next. I have tried to OPEN WITH and use the Archive Utility, and it creates a new folder with a lot of files, but non of them seem to be the executable file to start Forge.

I am running OS X Mavericks and Minecraft 1.7.10. JR Jul 19, 2014 @ 03:26:36.

OK – this is really beginning to bug me. Too many people are struggling with this. Let’s try this. What we need to do, is see what that java console is saying. There is some error message, that is we can just see it, we can figure this out. Can someone who has run into this error try the following: 1.

Open a ‘terminal’ session. Navigate to the directory containing the jar file. Type java Fill in the above with the name of the jar file we are trying to execute. And tell me what error message you see. Then we can try to solve this once and for all. Cheers – Jonathan.

dwb Jul 19, 2014 @ 18:07:36. I believe this is what you requested.