The title pretty much says all.  I want my mod to load first because it shows loading progress.  How would I do this?

The title pretty much says all.  I want my mod to load first because it shows loading progress.  How would I do this?

Loading process of what? Of mc? Update your forge, and launch the game without it!!!

No, the mod is somewhat like a debug mod.  It shows what stage the game is in while loading.  I just need my mod to load first.  It's mainly for testing a private modpack I'm working on.

I know, but the mod I'm working on is different, I just want my mod to load before any others, or atleast before most of them.  The other thing is the modpack I use requires optifine, if it doesn't have it, it crashes.  And optifine blocks the new loading screen.

So, in build.gradle, I put

dependencies {
     before: *
}

Ah

So

@Mod(name = _V.name, modid = _V.modid, version = _V.version, dependencies = "before:*")

should work?