Artistmonster24

So, I'm hosting a server and I wanted to have optifine 1.16.1 installed so I could have shaders. However, when I put it in my mods folder and start the game, forge 1.16.1 doesn't consider it a mod and only loads two mods (Minecraft Mod Loader and Forge) instead of the three it should be loading. Why is this? Thanks for your time.