amenditman Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 My 5 year old has discovered Minecraft (Super Lego on the computer) I have set up a vanilla minecraft server on my main desktop which eveyone in the house can connect to with the vanilla clients. Problem comes when I try to add mod support to the server/client software. There are not any really simple Linux instructions which work. Lots of Windows/Mac advice. I have downloaded the Minecraft Forge server software, it is all set up and runs fine. I need to add the fml (forge mod loader) software to the clients and that is what is failing. Here are the instructions included with the software needed for the client. Binary installation information------------------------------- If you have downloaded a binary zip file you can install it as follows (client or server): Installation ============ To install this on it's own into a minecraft environment, simply copy the contents of the fml zip file into the minecraft jar file, using your preferred zip management tool (I recommend 7 zip on windows). For servers: the minecraft jar file is minecraft_server.jar. For clients: the minecraft jar file is minecraft.jar. You will additionally need to delete the "META-INF" folder in the minecraft.jar file. I have opened the .jar files with Ark and added/deleted the files/folders. Fail I have extracted the archive, added the files/folders, and recompressed with jar command line tools. Fail After I do this the client load stops at the download complete step and does not proceed. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Perhaps this will help plus it has lots of tips: https://wiki.archlin...x.php/Minecraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 Great resource for Arch/general Minecraft info. Does not address the issue i am having. Most likely because I am missing something so obvious no one ever thought to discuss it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 When you say fail, what exactly is the error you are getting? Going by this, it looks like that should work for all OSs (they mention linux): http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/Installing_Mods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 I get no error messages from Ark or the commandline java tools. When I attempt to run the minecraft.jar it either fails outright with an error like "corrupt jar file" or it starts, begins loading, and freezes before finishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Odd.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 Like I said, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong that is so basic it doesn't occur to anyone to question it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 So your copying the contents from the .zip to the .jar archive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 (edited) Yes 1 - open .jar with ARK 2 - extract zip of fml-universal into a folder 3 - import folders and files from fml-universal into .jar using Ark's "Add Folder" and "Add Files" utilities. (drag and drop does not work between file manager and Ark) The folders I add are cpw, META-INF, net, and then the files in the extract folder are mostly .class and a few .cfg, .txt, .properties, etc. 4 - delete "META-INF" folder 5 - save .jar and close ARK Here is the error report after doing that. [amenditman@amendesk Forge_Client]$ java -jar -Xms1024M -Xmx2048M minecraft.jar Error: Invalid or corrupt jarfile minecraft.jar Edited July 1, 2013 by amenditman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tforsman Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Sounds like you are edititing the jar file you downloaded. You should edit the file with file-roller: ~/.minecraft/bin/minecraft.jar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 (edited) Sounds like you are edititing the jar file you downloaded. You should edit the file with file-roller: ~/.minecraft/bin/minecraft.jar What is file-roller? Yes, I am editing the minecraft.jar which I downloaded and saved. Edited July 1, 2013 by amenditman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tforsman Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 archive manager http://i.imgur.com/j8ocwjX.png maybe should have written archive manager of any kind instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tforsman Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Yes, I am editing the minecraft.jar which I downloaded and saved. That's what I did too from beginning and that is wrong. But after running the game once, you get the file ~/.minecraft/bin/minecraft.jar and thats the one to edit. So never edit the minecraft.jar you downloaded. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 (edited) That's what I did too from beginning and that is wrong. But after running the game once, you get the file ~/.minecraft/bin/minecraft.jar and thats the one to edit. So never edit the minecraft.jar you downloaded. You are the genius! Thank you for thinking under the box! I knew it was something so basic as to be beneath anyone's notice, but I could screw it up. That works beautifully. Now I need to figure out how to get the client to load the mods that are on the server. Edited July 1, 2013 by amenditman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tforsman Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Minecraft and minetest kids here too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Was with my nephew today and he played Minecraft all evening. We just sat and talked all evening about what he was making and what he found, and where he was going. He is very into it as well, but on a console not desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 It's pretty amazing. If you want an adventure game with fighting, it does that. If you want an exploration game, it does that. If you want an economic trading game, it does that. If you want to build anything, it does that. Your imagination (and technical ability) is the limit. I have vanilla Minecraft running, both server and client. No problem. No mods yet. WE are all still having fun with the basics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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