Crash 1.16.5

[PatHiak]

Running forge on 1.16.5 and whenever I try to load a world the game crashes and I get this error:

The game crashed whilst exception in server tick loop Error: com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 3 column 1 path $

[ChampionAsh5357]

The version you are using is no longer supported on this forum.

Please update to a modern version of Minecraft to receive support.

Currently supported versions are 1.19.4 (Latest) and 1.18.2 (LTS).