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I have installed my modpack and have it working in a single player environment and now I'm ready to set up my server where I am currently running a 1.5.2 forge server. On my server I have one jar file, the one that I had combined the minecraft.jar file from mojang and the forge file from minecraft forge. This as one file I put up in a special directory on my server they call /jar/ I notice I have a /libraries folder, my minecraft.jar file and the forge.jar file. Do I need both the .jar files? Did the installer copy the minecraft_server.jar into itself? If I need both jars I just hope my provider allows one jar to call another.

I have some mods I am going to start installing and I notice that my /mods folder is inside of .minecraft and not inside of my /forge directory. That seems to indicate that those mods would be global to all the different versions I have installed. Is this a limitation on the current minecraft scheme or is there a way I can work around it? Right now I can simply rename my .minecraft to a different name and rename the one I want to play back to .minecraft but that seems like an unwieldy kludge.

Okay, the good people at Technic have this covered. All I have to do is rename the forge jar to modpack.jar and put it in the bin folder of my modpack and I guess they do the rest themselves. So all I have to do is use the installer for my own minecraft folder.

Yes, I read the "read this or be banned" that I should use the installer and that would solve 80% of my problems. Unfortunately, I'm trying to make a technic mod pack and so I need the files that need to go unto the coremod folder and so need to do this manually. What I did: copied a vanilla 1.6.4 folder and called it a new name. Went into that folder, renamed the .jar and the .json to my folder name, opened up the .jar as a zip file, deleted the META-INF, copied the contents of the forge.jar file into it. Started minecraft, created a new profile pointing to my new folder and ran it. It ran without running forge (no forge mods, no forge setup). Went back into the .jar, deleted the META-INF that was included in the forge.jar and tried again with the same result. Do I need to haxor the .json file somehow? Does anyone know?