MC Mac 1.6

<font size="5" face="arial">Hello, here's my little text tutorial for all you Mac users who want to install mods after the 1.6 Minecraft update.


<font size="4" face="arial">Firstly, make sure you've <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/Minecraft.dmg">downloaded the new launcher</a>. Run it, log in, and start the game once to download the required files.


<font size="4" face="arial">Now right-click Finder and select <strong>Go To Folder...</strong> then type <strong>~/Library/Application Support/minecraft</strong> and hit go.
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You'll appear in a folder called <strong>minecraft</strong>.
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<font size="4" face="arial">In here, you will see folders like <strong>assets, libraries, versions,</strong> and possibly more. If you've ran Minecraft from before 1.6, you'll have <strong>bin, resources</strong> and other folders as well, but these do nothing anymore. If you wish, you can delete them, but it doesn't really matter.

<font size="4" face="arial">Open the <strong>versions</strong> folder and you should have a folder named the current version of Minecraft (for example 1.6.1). You can not mod this folder, as it will "force update" every time the game is started. Instead, <strong>right-click it and duplicate it</strong>.
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Rename this folder to whatever you'd like, but do <strong>NOT</strong> use spaces or any special characters. Just name it something simple, like <strong>custom.</strong>
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<font size="4" face="arial">Inside that folder, rename both the <strong>1.6.1.jar</strong> and the <strong>1.6.1.json</strong> to the same as your folder, like <strong>custom.jar</strong> and <strong>custom.json</strong>.
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<font size="4" face="arial">Open the <strong>custom.json</strong> file with <strong>TextEdit</strong>, and edit the <strong>"id:" "1.6.1"</strong> to <strong>"id:" "custom"</strong> or whatever you named your folder and files.
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<font size="4" face="arial">Rename the <strong>custom.jar to custom.zip</strong>, and double click it to extract the contents to a <strong>custom</strong> folder.
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Place any mod you want inside that folder, like ModLoader for example. Also be sure to <strong>delete META-INF</strong> from there.
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<font size="4" face="arial">Once you're done adding mods to the folder, select all the files with <strong>cmd-a</strong> and right-click one and <strong>Compress X files.</strong> You'll get a zip archive named <strong>Archive.zip</strong>.
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Grab that out of the folder with all the classes. You can now dispose of the <strong>custom.zip and custom folder</strong> (not the main one inside the <strong>versions</strong> folder!).

<font size="4" face="arial">Rename your <strong>Archive.zip to custom.jar</strong> or whatever you named your folder. This file will replace your old, un-modded jar file.
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<font size="4" face="arial">Open your Minecraft launcher again, and on the <strong>Local Version Finder (NYI)</strong> you should see your new jar file available. On the right, make a new profile and under <strong>Use version:</strong> select the <strong>release custom</strong> that you just created.
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<font size="4" face="arial">Save the profile, and if you see under the profile drop box that it says <strong>Version: release custom</strong> when you have your new profile selected, then you can log in and the mods should work if they are all updated and compatible.

<font size="5" face="arial">Enjoy.