I hope this is the correct board!

 

Hello there Minecrafters,

 

is there any way to change the "mods"-Directory? I know, there are serveral threads out there, but no one of them really helped me. So, I created a launcher that launches Minecraft from another working-directory (instead of .minecraft it's .minecraft2 for example). Now, when Forge is installed, the minecraft.jar from the .minecraft2-Directory uses the "mods"-Folder from .minecraft. Is there any way to change the "mods"-Directory (maybe with modding)? I looked for that in the .cfg-File, nothing found. The strange thing is, that the "config"-Folder is created in the .minecraft2-Directory.

 

Thanks for your help,

DigitalClark.

As long as you set the directory that MC returns in Minecraft.getMCDir() properly {its simple you just set 1 field} then you're fine. If you don't then it'll autogenerate and go for it.

Thanks LexManos!

I decompiled Minecraft using MCP, opened Minecraft.java, changed the line with getMinecraftDir() from to minecraft to minecraft2 , recompiled it and reobfuscated it and copied the Minecraft.class into minecraft.jar.

Forge still uses the mods-Folder from .minecraft and not .minecraft2 (also it creates the logs in .minecraft). I'm not really skilled in Java (yet), so (but in other programming languages)...

Any advice?

Dont edit base classes in your launcher -.-

Your edits are getting overwriten by forge cuz we have to edit that class.

Take a look at how other launchers do it, its super simple.

Yes, I know, sorry.

Thanks again for the reply .

 

I'm just going to post the log here:

2012-10-15 14:56:21 [iNFO] Forge Mod Loader version 2.2.106.176 for Minecraft c:1.2.5, s:1.2.5 loading

2012-10-15 14:56:21 [FINE] No mod directory found, creating one: C:\Users\Clark\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\mods

2012-10-15 14:56:21 [FINE] Attempting to load mods contained in the minecraft jar file and associated classes

2012-10-15 14:56:21 [FINE] Found a minecraft related file at C:\Users\Clark\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft2\bin\minecraft.jar, loading

 

My launcher does launch the minecraft.jar in the .minecraft2-Directory and Forge also works, but Forge uses the mods-Folder from

.minecraft. My launcher isn't programmed with Java, it uses a .bat-File to launch Minecraft:

 

/c "javaw -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -Djava.library.path=workdir//.minecraft2/bin/natives -cp workdir/.minecraft2/bin/minecraft.jar;.workdir/.minecraft2/bin/jinput.jar;workdir/.minecraft2/bin/lwjgl.jar;workdir/.minecraft2/bin/lwjgl_util.jar net.minecraft.client.Minecraft [NICKNAME] [PASSWORD]

 

* workdir stands for the path to the %appdata%-Folder (Windows)

Ugh fuck it to tired to hold your hand, and obviously you are not willing to do your own research -.-

https://github.com/Forkk/MultiMC/blob/master/MultiMC/Launcher/MultiMCLauncher.java

Note lines 59-80.

Done.

My launcher isn't programmed with Java.

I searched for it on my own, but I didn't get a solution because my Launcher isn't programmed in Java.

 

Argh... Thank's anyway, it works now .

Look here: github.com/Forkk/MultiMC4

It's not written in java either.

Don't care, you could write your launcher in python, you'd still have to do the same thing, it's a bitch, but you'd have to do it.

You even stated that PART of your launcher was java, namely your modified Minecraft class.

Either way, to be honest, you shouldn't be making a luancher if you cant figure out the basics.