Install Forge

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Install Forge

Forge up to 1.13.2 is working correctly since commit a33dcfa which did a lot of changes around inheritsFrom behavior, meaning an unreleased build.

Notes

• Enable hidden folders in your file manager before go to setup.
• Links are embedded on the light blue text.
• You need a GitHub account to download dev builds, otherwise it will become error 404.

Preparing and setup

• Update to the Forge working dev build: here.
• Update to the GLFW that compatible with the dev build as above: here. Extract and copy lwjgl-glfw-classes.jar to /sdcard/games/.minecraft/lwjgl3 (where LWJGL3 is installed) and overwrite existing GLFW.
• Now, open the launcher, navigate to Options -> Launch mod installer (with custom arguments)
• Paste to the arguments as follow

-jar /path/to/fabric-installer.jar client -dir . -mcversion [minecraft version]

Where:

• /path/to/fabric-installer.jar: absolute path to Fabric installer jar file.
• [minecraft version]: understand it, example: 1.16.4.

• Run it, then it will show exited with code 0, check /sdcard/games/.minecraft/latestlog.txt if it contains similar content as below, go next.

S/jrelog  (20248): Loading Fabric Installer: [Fabric installer version]
S/jrelog  (20248): 
S/jrelog  (20248): Using latest loader version
S/jrelog  (20248): 
S/jrelog  (20248): Installing [Minecraft version] with fabric [Loader version]
S/jrelog  (20248): 
S/jrelog  (20248): Done
S/jrelog  (20248): 
S/jrelog  (20248): Creating profile
S/jrelog  (20248): 
Java Exit code: 0

• Back to version selector, swipe all the way down to the bottom, and Fabric will be there.
• Select and try launch.