How To Add Mods to a Minecraft Server

How to add mods to a Minecraft Server

Downloading mods

1. You need to get the mods from CurseForge or the mod author’s official site. Doing this ensures that you won’t get corrupted files or viruses.

2. Once you decide on a mod you want, click the name to open the mod page.

3. Open the Files tab to view the versions. To the right of the version you want, press download. It’s best to download the latest recommended update for your version of Minecraft.

4. Head back to the mods page and open the Relations tab. This is very important as these are the mods you need for it to work correctly. If you don’t download the dependencies, the server will not function properly, or at all.

Uploading Minecraft server mods

1. Make sure that your server is running on Forge, you can see this on the under the Server Status, on your server Web Interface. You can find our guide in how to switch the game server version here . Note that you need to run the Forge server before you put the mods in, to create the mods folder, and if you do not your mods will be deleted.

2. Stop the server.

3. Connect to your server via FTP. You can find a guide in how to connect to your Nitrado server via FTP here .

4. Upload the mod files to the mods folder , which you will find within your Minecraft server folder, it is usually named by default as “minecraftotherpacks”

5. Once they are fully uploaded, go back to your server Web Interface, and start the server.

Common Issues

Incorrect Forge version

The mods you have uploaded to the server may not always be compatible with the Forge version we have available from our jar selector. If this is the case, you will need to install the correct version of Forge for your mod manually. We have a tutorial on uploading a custom version of Forge here.

Server is crashing on startup

The server crashing during the startup process can be common on Forge servers if they are not setup correctly. This can be due to multiple issues. Most commonly this is caused by a duplicate mod, missing dependency mods, or incorrect mod versions.

Server is stuck loading

Many times when modifying the server, the server will need to be confirmed before it will fully start. This happens a lot, especially when you remove or add mods. Most of the time in console, you will see Missing Mod Id’s errors. All you need to do to resolve this is type /fml confirm in the Live Server Console.

Duplicate Mods

You can detect a duplicate mod from console pretty easily. You will see an error that says “Duplicate Mods” with the mod name listed underneath it. Simply go into the FTP File Access, the mods folder, and delete the extra mod.

Missing Dependency

To detect if you have a missing dependency mod, head into the console where you will see an error code that reads something similar to The mod NEI (Not Enough Items) requires mod [JEI] to be available From this error, we can see that the missing mod is JEI. You will need to add the mod into the server in order for the server to work again.

Incorrect Mod Version

Detecting if the mod is the incorrect version is pretty easy. It will almost always display an error stating that it is for a different version of Forge. It will look similar to File jei_1.12.2-4.15.0.268.jar is for an older version of Forge and cannot be loaded. If you have this issue, make sure that the mod you are using has an update for the version of Forge you are running. If it doesn’t, then you won’t be able to use the mod on your server.