Minecraft | How To Add Your Own Forge Version

note

This is only for forge 1.17 and above. If you would like to install forge Legacy versions you can follow this guide

1. Download your forge version from https://files.minecraftforge.net/net/minecraftforge/forge/

2. Stop your Minecraft server

3. Choose the latest installer

4. Create a new folder on your desktop and call it whatever you want, we will call ours forge

5. Double-click on the forge installer jar file, if you can't do this right click on the forge jar > properties > change opens with to java

6. Choose the install server option & specify the path to the forge folder you created on your desktop and finally click ok.

7. Let the download process run...

Click ok

8. Back in the forge folder, you will now see libraries with a bat, sh and txt file

tip

You can delete the run.bat and the run.sh

9. Upload the libraries folder and user_jvm_args.txt to your server, we will use SFTP. You can learn how to setup SFTP here

10. You now need to get the Minecraft version - Forge version. There are 3 ways you can do this: We will need this in step 12

    • You can get it from the forge website directly

    

    • You can get it from the forge installer jar file

    

    • lastly, you can get it from the libraries folder by going to the following path: libraries > net > minecraftforge > forge

    

11. You can now go into your game control panel and into the command line manager

12. choose Forge Selector (ONLY FORGE) you can click on the select button

13. From step 10 we now need to paste in the Minecraft and forge version into the text box and click apply:

tip

Please make sure there is no spaces between the dash

14. Your command line manager should now look like this:

15. Next, you need to click on Select Java version and make sure your Java version is set to Java 17: you can follow this guide here

16. Once that is done you can start the server.

17. You can check the web console to watch the server startup.