Okay never mind, I don't know my own mod itself, there IS mob protection
https://github.com/ForgeEssentials/ForgeEssentialsMain/wiki/Protection%20Module
Paulscode is the backend for mc sound. Without it, no sound.
And you were asked to get a better archiver as the mac one overwrites, not merges. We replace a class in that folder so it got overwritten when you installed forge.
Apparently the failsafe must have been removed or something.