Please help, nods not showing up after installation

[Cencorth]

Hello! I recently installed Forge version 43.1.16, the installation went beautifully and I was able to get the profile for the game all set up like I used to on previous versions. The problems began after I tried to install a couple mods to improve fishing and farming in game. I opened and ran Forge in game on it's own ahead of downloading the mods to make sure Forge was working and it was. I downloaded the mods making sure to get the right 1.19.2 versions and the mods. When I opened Minecraft and started up the version with Forge on it I checked the mods button on the home page and they weren't there.

I opened up my mods folder to make sure I had put them in the right place, and there they were. It's like Forge wasn't recognizing that there were any mods to try and run. I checked to see if they required fabric to run. Neither of them did. I tried reinstalling them, then Forge, both resulted in the same outcome. I tried it with other mods and the effect was still the same. I can see Forge is running just fine, and I can open my mod folder from in game to see mods are in it, they just aren't being opened or run by Forge.

These are the two mods I tried to install on my game when all this started.

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/farmers-delight/files

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/aquaculture

[warjort]

Make sure the mods in your mod folder end with .jar and not .jar.zip

Then disable/uninstall whatever broken browser plugin you have that is not recognising .jar files properly. 🙂 

And also change windows explorer so it doesn't hide file extensions.

Edited September 15, 2022 by warjort