Launcher Fails - Forge 10.12.0.996 (Solution)

[Naah]

Hi everybody, I've been using Forge for awhile but am new to the forums.

 

I wanted to share an issue and solution I found after installing the latest Forge for 1.7.2.

 

If clicking "Play" on the launcher ends up not launching the game, and just brings the launcher back up, the issue is most likely lack of a version being properly specified in one of your mods (codechicken core, for instance!) this causes the outdated and incompatible mod to be loaded and crashes MC before you get to see it come up. To identify the mod(s) specifically causing this issue for you, you will need to look at the "Development Console" tab of your Minecraft Launcher and look for lines like this:

 

[WARNING] [ForgeModLoader] The (Insert Mod Info Here) does not have a MCVersion annotation, it may cause issues with this version of Minecraft

 

You will want to move any mods named in these errors to a different folder(I just have a subfolder under Mods) to prevent them from loading and crashing the game. If you get the error from multiple mods, you may want to try adding them back in one at a time and see if any of them will work.

 

Alternatively, if reading an error log isn't your forte, you can move all of your mods to a different folder and try to relaunch MC. If this works, the problem I described above was the one affecting you.

 

I hope this helps!

 

~Naah

 

EDIT: if your minecraft is installed in the default location, and you paste the following into a command prompt, and press enter, it will rename your "mods" folder to "oldmods" - effectively disabling all of them:

ren %appdata%\.minecraft\mods oldmods

The mods folder will automatically be recreated when you launch MC - with Forge, at least. I haven't checked to see if Vanilla recreates the folder as well.

[luacs1998]

It's up to the user to make sure they have the correct mods for the correct minecraft.

 

Not our forum's problem to do such hand-holding. I'll leave your post here, but don't expect me to sticky it or refer the punters to it. It's basic common sense, they SHOULD know (and most don't, unfortunately)