Forge is a free, open-source modding API all of your favourite mods use!

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Go to the Forge website and select the Minecraft version you wish to get Forge for from the list.

You can download the installer for the Recommended Build or the Latest build there. Latest builds may have newer features but may be more unstable as a result. The installer will attempt to install Forge into your vanilla launcher environment, where you can then create a new profile using that version and play the game!

For support and questions, visit the Support Forum or the Forge Discord server.

We require the version of Java that Minecraft requires, which is currently:

If you are on Windows and have difficulty using Java to launch JAR files, consider using Jarfix by Johann Löfflmann.

See the "Getting Started" section in the Forge Documentation.

If you wish to actually inspect Forge, submit PRs or otherwise work with Forge itself, you're in the right place!

See the guide to setting up a Forge workspace.

See the "Making Changes and Pull Requests" section in the Forge documentation.

Please read the contributing guidelines found here before making a pull request.

We require all contributors to acknowledge the Forge Contributor License Agreement. Please ensure you have a valid email address associated with your GitHub account to do this. If you have previously signed it, you should be OK.

Forge is a large project with many collaborators working on it around the clock. Forge is and will always remain free to use and modify. However, it costs money to run such a large project as this, so please consider becoming a patron.

YourKit for providing us accesss to their YourKit Java Profiler which helps identify bottlenecks and places for improvment.