DaemonUmbra

You can install the server manually by installing Forge into a vanilla instance and then selecting the Forge jar as the launch jar. Also, are you implying that the Forge project is not allowed to make any money and should be paid for out of pocket? The ads have been there for ages and help pay the bills, it’s just now they’ve decided to take down an internal manifest that they haven’t used in ages and it turns out everyone was using that to bypass Forge’s main source of income.

User was banned for using a cracked launcher

Is it still the same error?

Only if you're running a very old version of Forge... Have you done anything besides install Forge? Did you clean everything out of the mods, logs, and configs folders before running this new version of Forge for the first time?

That's not a debug log.

Your client log doesn't have any info about your connection attempts.

Can you provide a debug.log? (More info in the EAQ and my signature)

Have you selected a Forge launcher profile? What the installer does is add itself as an available Minecraft Version, a launcher profile then needs to be told to use this version.

Please provide a debug.log from both client and server.

No debug? Ok is there an fml-client-latest? If not, then you're not running Forge, or you're using the Twitch launcher.

Yeah putting Forge in the mods folder does nothing, back to the logs there should be one that's not a compressed file (it might just be called debug if Windows is set to hide file extensions)

So you're saying you installed Forge by making a "mods" folder and putting Forge in it?

It's described in the EAQ thread and my signature. Where did you get Forge and WorldEdit? (Please provide a URL) How did you install Forge?

Please provide your debug.log

Is this causing an issue or is it just console spam you are worried about?

Please read the EAQ or my signature and provide your debug.log

User was banned for using a cracked client.

When you say it doesn’t start do you mean it crashes and closes or does it just freeze? Please read the EAQ or the “Logs” section of my signature and provide your debug.log

If your final goal is to create a client I can tell you right now you won’t get any help on that here, as it is against the Minecraft EULA. (Note: There is a distinction to be made here between clients and Modpack Managers) However, if all else fails anything you can do with a plugin you can do with a Forge mod(you just can’t always do it the same way).

It said BUILD SUCCESSFUL, but that's because it swallowed a few errors and didn't count them as a failure for some reason. I believe Forge only works on Java 8 and 10 at this time, try using a JDK for one of those versions. NOTE: All mods must target Java 8 or risk incompatibility (Mojang still ships Minecraft with a Java 8 runtime.)

When you say Forge crashes, do you mean it freezes or does the launcher come back saying the game crashed? If it's just frozen, how long do you leave it? Please provide your debug.log, info about how to find and the preferred method of providing it can be found in the EAQ thread or my signature below any of my posts.

What launcher are you using? How did you install Forge? Where did you get Forge from? Please provide your debug log as described in the EAQ thread and my signature below.

When you say the loading bar does not load do you mean it stays empty or does it not show up at all? Please try again with your screenshot.

I still don't understand why the crash report is leaving the mod names empty, I believe it still shows in the actual error that gets logged in the proper logs. Regardless, here are some hints so you can try to fix the problem yourself. Hints: There is only one mod in your list that matches the version listed as "have". [version,) means any version higher than the given version. 14.23.5.2768 is less than 14.23.5.2772

Please don't hijack threads. Also: