

If you just install Forge and play the game you’ll experience nothing different than if you had left the game completely vanilla. Forge by itself does absolutely nothing to change the game. It modifies the game in order to provide a standardized API for other mods. Refer to our guide to backing up Minecraft for the full rundown on how to back up your game.įorge is both a mod and mod loader simultaneously. While 99 percent of the time this change is good and introduces super awesome new features to Minecraft, very rarely you can corrupt something, permanently alter a game world you’ve been working on, or otherwise have an unpleasant experience.Īs such, we strongly recommend fully backing up your Minecraft directory or at minimum, your game worlds, before proceeding. Unlike resource packs, modifications actually changes the game. There’s a mod to help everyone from the diehard purist to the game-overhauler.īefore we proceed, we do want to emphasize the importance of a good backup.


Mods like Optifine do nothing to change the basic game mechanics but radically improve the graphics rendering on even beefy computers, and add-ons like shaders also preserve the game mechanics but turn Minecraft from an 8-bit experience to a beautiful 3D one. Even if you have no desire whatsoever to greatly alter the vanilla Minecraft experience, we’re still going to urge you to mod your game.
