Json file

[Hipchick5916]

For some reason every time I download forge it turns in to a json file. I'm so stuck on this. I have no mods installed either. 

Edited April 2, 2019 by Hipchick5916

[DaemonUmbra]

What?

What do you mean Forge turns into a json file?

Where are you downloading Forge from? Please give a URL.

[Hipchick5916]

  On 4/2/2019 at 10:42 PM, DaemonUmbra said:

What?

What do you mean Forge turns into a json file?

Where are you downloading Forge from? Please give a URL.

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https://files.minecraftforge.net I have been downloading it from here. 

[DavidM]

Which download did you click? The installer? 

[Hipchick5916]

  On 4/2/2019 at 11:26 PM, DavidM said:

Which download did you click? The installer? 

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Yeah I even tried the universal.  

[DaemonUmbra]

When you say it turns into a json file do you mean the file ends in .json? Or are you assuming this based on the icon?

[Hipchick5916]

  On 4/3/2019 at 3:44 PM, DaemonUmbra said:

When you say it turns into a json file do you mean the file ends in .json? Or are you assuming this based on the icon?

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1.12.2-forge1.12.2-14.23.5.2820.json

[DiamondMiner88]

Does it turn into a json when you download it BEFORE you run it or after you run it?

[Hipchick5916]

  On 4/3/2019 at 4:11 PM, DiamondMiner88 said:

Does it turn into a json when you download it BEFORE you run it or after you run it?

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When I click client and extract it it doesn't show a jar file in the folder only a Json file.

1.12.2-forge1.12.2-14.23.5.2820.json

Edited April 3, 2019 by Hipchick5916

[DiamondMiner88]

Wait. Why do you need the jar if your clicking client extract? If you need a server jar you click server and install and it downloads the necessary library s and the jar to the directory that you tell it to.

If you want a client install you click client and it installs forge to %appdata%\.minecraft

Then you launch it from the launcher.

What are you trying to do?

I assume you see the json file as a log file if its in the same directory as the installer.

[Hipchick5916]

  On 4/3/2019 at 4:20 PM, DiamondMiner88 said:

Wait. Why do you need the jar if your clicking client extract? If you need a server jar you click server and install and it downloads the necessary library s and the jar to the directory that you tell it to.

If you want a client install you click client and it installs forge to %appdata%\.minecraft

Then you launch it from the launcher.

What are you trying to do?

I assume you see the json file as a log file if its in the same directory as the installer.

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I'm not running a server, when I extract it it doesn't extract a jar file which I need. I had done it like 15 times and still nothing. I searched online and I'm not the only one with this problem. But no one has found out why this is happening. Forge did work before but there must have been a update but that's still no reason for it not to download the jar file. 

[Hipchick5916]

  On 4/3/2019 at 4:30 PM, diesieben07 said:

You do not need a jar file. Use the installer to install the Forge version into .minecraft. This does not include a jar file. Then run Forge from the Minecraft launcher. Do not use third party launchers.

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I just uninstalled labymod now Forge works YAY!!

[Hipchick5916]

  On 4/3/2019 at 5:20 PM, diesieben07 said:

That is not how any of this works.

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I'm guessing Labmod messed everything up but what was happening was true.

[Hipchick5916]

  On 4/3/2019 at 5:25 PM, Hipchick5916 said:

I'm guessing Labmod messed everything up but what was happening was true.

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Well this is um embarrassing yeah everything just stop working wow. 

[Wildfire]

so you do not need a jar file to run forge?

[Wildfire]

i understand how this might sound out of context, but i need to know if you need an executable jar file along with a .json file in order to run forge

[Wildfire]

in the versions folder

[LexManos]

1) Do not hijack threads

2) Our installer installs everything you need.

3) This has been answered literally a hundred + times.