Guides
Installing modpacks and fixing the crashes that come with them, step by step.
How to install a Minecraft modpack from Modrinth or CurseForge
Install any Modrinth or CurseForge modpack in a few clicks: from Discover, from a .mrpack or .zip file, or from a link, including the files CurseForge won't let launchers download.
4 min readFix “requires Fabric API” and other missing mod dependency crashes
What “Incompatible mods found”, “requires fabric-api” and “Missing or unsupported mandatory dependencies” mean, and how to fix each one before the game crashes.
5 min readWhy some CurseForge mods have to be downloaded by hand
Some CurseForge authors turn off third-party downloads, so launchers can't fetch their files. Here's why, and the fastest way to get them into your pack.
3 min readHow much RAM should you give Minecraft and modpacks?
A practical table of how much memory to allocate to vanilla Minecraft and modpacks of every size, and why giving it more than it needs makes it slower.
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