These are problems you are likely to come back with, and sometimes fixing issues you didn't know you had ends up fixing the issue you were focusing on.
Please provide the logs I mentioned earlier:
These will be in your .minecraft\logs folder, the link in my signature will take you to a page on the Minecraft wiki that will tell you where this is depending on your operating system.
Edit: Also please explain what you mean by Java crashes but the game doesn't
Lauroline was asking about Idea, not Eclipse, and for Idea simply importing the build.gradle will do to start, Idea will have a gradle panel on the right where you can click to execute Gradle tasks, including setupDecompWorkspace..
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(No, "I need to use this version because of this other mod" is not an exception)
The specific logs will be fml-client-latest and fml-junk-earlystartup I believe.
and to clarify
means "Go to the page you downloaded Forge from and copy from the URL bar, then paste it here.
You can use your own credentials by using the -username and -p program arguments in your launch configuration.
Do note that this will result in your username and password being saved in plaintext in the launch configuration files.
I'm not sure of other methods of doing this but someone with more dev experience might chime in.
@Milk Store Typing cmd into powershell should work just fine for opening cmd as it will open a cmd session right inside the powershell window.
@Retrem I would not recommend telling people to mess with their registry keys. And please don't hijack threads, make your own thread.
A file extension is the ".whatever" at the end of a file name, it's the main method by which your Operating system identifies what type of file it is. I think Windows hides them by default.