Hello, I'm new at Minecraft and I'm really enjoying it. After getting lost a few times exploring and taking days to find my house I thought it might be really nice to have a minimap mod with waypoints etc. After taking an hour to finally figure out how to install Forge 1.7.2 correctly, I tried to install REI's Minimap Mod. I put the zipped file in my mods folder. It wont come up in the Forge, so i'm not sure what to do, or what i'm doing wrong. I do NOT have a minecraft.jar or bin folder as in older versions as I have seen on several discussions. I am supposed to just be able to put the mod file in my mods folder according to several youtube tutorials, but its just not working. Please HELP!! btw, I have the latest version of Minecraft 1.7.4, but I am running the Forge profile 1.7.2
I am having the same problem. New to Minecraft and I have the latest versions of both Minecraft and Forge. No matter which way I try (with or without forge, mod loader, going in and creating a new version) I have watched numerous YouTube videos and even had my nephew (who is more familiar) try to mod. NOTHING is working. My son wants the mod with all the animals and a map!
Thanks!
GTMiner