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(Size explained in misc)

Dwarf Fortress doesn't have proper graphics, so there was no need to render them.

But Minecraft would need to render them.

Fortunately, this is possible, since none of the attributes need to be merged. Merging attributes, e.g a cross between feathers and scales, requires some imagination, which computers lack.

So let's use the example mentioned for our automated construction of a forgotten beast.
Firstly, it's a dimetrodon.
Since this is an attribute, and not a combination, Minecraft would have a model of a Dimetrodon stored somewhere.

Only the model is used, and the texture placement of the eyes, claws and teeth which is overlaid all the other textures later.

Secondly, it has fan-like antennae. Minecraft has this model stored somewhere for this purpose, and it places them on a location of the dimetrodon model. The location is defined by metadata to be on the head.

Thirdly, the texture. A tessalating fleshy texture is simply applied over the whole creature, and then the dimetrodon details texture is applied, giving it teeth, claws, and a mouth.

Now our dimetrodon is a lot like the above picture, except with visible muscle and antennae.

So, it has spittle as a ranged attack. This will debuff what it hits.

Walking forgotten beasts will randomly swap between a zombie and a skeleton AI (Latter only if there's a ranged attack). Flying forgotten beasts will probably use ghast AI and some meleeified ghast AI.

To prevent them from being easily beaten with a bow or by attacking through a 1x1 hole, they'd have the added buffs of a high on average speed, and a long range melee attack in addition to normal melee.

This long range melee is less effective than close range melee unless the player is in close range. This attack has a random reaction time, so it might end up triggering too early and striking while the player is out of range, or going too late with the same result. Also, it takes time to aim the angle of it.

But still, you're probably going to get hit quite a lot if you try hitting it through a 1x1 hole, and even when you can take advantage of the limited aiming speed, it's still going to take some skill.

Non-blob Forgotten Beasts are attracted to shadowed areas. (Doesn't count artificial light)
Meaning Forgotten Beasts that have been around for a while and are non-aquatic will likely end up in caves or forests, perhaps even buildings for the powerful beasts that scare players away.
A non-blob forgotten beast will eventually specify a point as being its lair, which it will stay close to when it's not going after players. It will only detatch from that lair if severly wounded near it. Any singular items near the lair will be placed along the walls in item frames.
So you'll know you've found a lair when there's a full set of armour and tools in item frames everywhere.

Lastly, some things that depend on the creature shape. Blob and serpent are single creature shapes, 4 and 6+ limbed refer to multiple creature shapes.

Blob:
Important note: They don't look like slimes. Explained in 'Solutions'.
1.4x health multipler
1.4x damage multiplier
0.6x speed multiplier
Level 3 regen
No long range melee
Medium speed climbing
No jumping
Gets bigger, therefore tougher, when it kills anything in melee. Caps at sizevalue 999, 50 blocks high. Health increases when max health increases like this.
When it is at 50% of its max health, it will lose 30 sizevalue, and spawn 2 copies of itself a fifth of its height (These are basic NPCs though, lack regen and growth, can despawn)
Health will not decrease along with max health when downgrading.
Dies at half its original size.
Far greater body distortion abilities, so it can fit through pretty much any gap.
Ignores block collisions from any side of its body unless 80% of that side is colliding.
So the small ones can squeeze into your building, the big ones go through it.
Defences are uniquely rubbish against this type of forgotten beast, this just rolls over towns very rapidly killing anything inside. A village is a quick way for one of theses to get really large.

4 Limbed:
1.2x health multiplier
1.4x speed multiplier
Level 2 regen
Decent long range melee
Slow climbing
Powerful(Rapid airspeed) jumping
Charging, which is pretty straightforward: Literally. Low turning speed while charging, very high speed and damage, weapon knockback will only slow it down. So get out the way.

6+ Limbed:
Level 1 regen
Very rapid long range melee
Fast climbing
High(Long distance) jumping
The long range melee on these is rapid enough to pretty much be the main attack, rather than just anti-coward.

Serpent/fish:
1.4x health multiplier
1.4x damage multiplier
1.4x speed multiplier
Level 2 regen
Decent long range melee
And nothing else. Difficult in a simple way.


Climbing is just spider climbing upgraded to mostly ignore 1 block differences in the wall.
Jumping is aimed to land on whatever target position or enemy the creature is aiming for.

Alright, we've got a forgotten beast!

Now, the simulation of a forgotten beast creation I did mostly assumed Dwarf Fortress attributes, Minecraft would have its own body shapes and materials. But body shapes would still be grouped into blob, serpent/fish, 4 limbed and 6+ limbed, and there would still be stuff like fire, iron, and snow.

Spawn frequency almost none on the first day and maxes on day specified on world creation, defaulting at 100, able to be toggled between 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000.
These things will run out soon enough if you stay anywhere for long enough.

Only one can ever spawn per 2x2 chunk area. When one spawns it will mark a 2x2 chunk area as used.
Rather than despawning if they meet their despawning conditions, they will respawn, with full health, in the place they despawned once that area is loaded.
The maximum distance a forgotten beast can be from the player and still simulate is far longer, as well as the maximum and minimum distances for one spawning.
They cannot spawn within 32 blocks of artificial lighting.
And they can have spawn eggs like normal monsters, which will create a random FB.

As for the actual spawn system and rates:
Every 10 seconds, the game will "roll" to decide if a Forgotten Beast will spawn, once per player.
First, it will do a simple chance roll. The chance of the system proceeding is one in (20+Days left until day of max spawn rate)
Then, it will calculate the size of the beast that will be spawned.
Then it finds a suitable place to spawn that is large enough for the beast, assuming it is a cube with the same amount of ability to compress as a non-blob. "Large enough" takes compression into account.
Then it checks that it is not within a chunk marked as "Used". Cancels if it is.
Then it does a count of nearby blocks(15x15x15 cube around spawn). The (percentage that are not air-30) is the percent chance of the spawn of a beast being confirmed, and procession with the rest of the FB creation.

This means that spawn rate maxes at one FB every 75 minutes on superflat, gradually decreases chunks get marked.
I really don't want to go to the trouble of calculating for jungles and caves, but they'd have far higher spawn rates due to the percentage-air count, exactly as intended.

An amount of experience and FB material proportional to the size of the beast.
See bottom of attributes for quantity.

You can gain reputation with a village for killing a forgotten beast within 200 blocks of it.

Plus server bragging rights:
"Urist Mcbeastkiller has killed an giant fire breathing Forgotten Beast of obsidian in the shape of an octopus!"

And one more item as well as all that:
Beast extract.
It displays all the stats of the beast it came from on mouseover.

At the cost of 10 levels, 2 beast extracts can be crafted with an egg to make an beast egg. Extracts are not used up. For each stat of the egg, a random one of the ingredient extracts will have the corresponding stat used. A lot like alleles in real life breeding.
Also, each number in the stats would have a 1/50 chance of being rerandomized.

Beast eggs will not display their stats, and have a random skin.
Beast eggs are placeable and have the model of the Dragon Egg.
Beast eggs take 14 days to hatch.
Beast size starts out as 1/3, and grows gradually to full size.

What about using a Dragon Egg instead of a regular egg?

Most/all would have deep roaring sounds. Maybe not blob.
Roaring sound would be slightly metallicy for nonorganics.

Forgotten Beasts target all passive mobs, except for bats.

Forgotten Beasts despawn when difficulty is changed to peaceful, and respawn when changed back.

Poison types and powers are influenced by special attack type.
Special attacks that do no damage are guaranteed to have a poison, at a high median level.
No/Passive special (Melee poisons) has a medium chance of having a poison, at a middle median level.
Damaging special attacks have a low chance of having a poison, at a low median level.
Remember this is just weighting for random rolls, damaging special attacks can have every type of poison maxed. So cursed fire pretty much. Plenty of !!Fun!!

The size variation is enormous. The median is sizevalue 99 (5 blocks high).
Here's the height distribution:


Most Forgotten Beasts are land based, flying beasts are a challenging minority, although they may be as common as land based beasts in extreme hills.
There are no aquatic Forgotten Beasts outside the ocean, though there may be amphibian types.

They'd just be named "Forgotten Beast", no individual naming.

1/1000 chance a forgotten beast is instead named "Forgotten Beat" and is perfectly normal other than the fact that it plays two songs at any one time, and drops every disc on death.

There's a lot of things that look like they'd require some really weird coding to work.
So I'll go through them.

Body distortion for fitting through gaps:
For limbed creatures, any body part touching a block is folded away from that block, like you have your arm stuck out, and then you retract it by bending at both the shoulder and elbow.
The actual part of the creature that collides with blocks no matter what is probably something a bit smaller than the main body.
Blobs are cubes that can distort into rectangular prisms, with rectangular prisms attached to their sides except for their bottom. These compress away from blocks rather than fold away, assuming they're actually in a situation where they will collide. The centre body also compresses.
The amount the size of a blob can change is pretty huge, blobs at least 10 blocks tall should be able to squeeze themselves into a 2x2 hallway.

Forgotten Beast memory management:
They'd be stored like players.
But rather than having stats, posistion, and inventory memorised for each player name, FBs have only posistion, and size if they're a blob. Their health = max health when loaded.
A forgotten beast ID would have loads of metadata, so rather than say, just ENTITYID, it would be ENTITYID:BODYSHAPEID_MATERIALID_RGBMULTIPLIER_SIZE_BASESIZE_NUMERICALSTRINGOFDETAILS_SPECIALATTACK_NUMERICALSTRINGOFEFFECTS
e.g 201:01049667105105000020235000000

201 is a likely ID since this is not a standard mob.
01 is body shape #2, serpent.
049 is a block/item ID. If this referred to feather, it would give the beast a feather over flesh material; if rotten flesh, skinless flesh; if leather, fur. But 049 is obsidian, so this is an obsidian beast.
667 means the colour of that obsidian will be multiplied by 7/8 for red, 7/8 for green, and 8/8 for blue.
105 #1 is the size of this creature. Exists for blobs and babies.
105 #2 is the basesize, for calculating when a blob should die, and what size a creature should grow to be.
000020 is what details the beast should have. The fifth number is wings, the 2 means the second type of wings, spined.
2 is the type of special attack, in this case splash poison blobs. 0 is none.
35000000 is the poison types and strength. 3 is level 3 poison, 5 is level 5 wither, the 0s are all other things. This is special attack effect or melee effect, depending on special.

So, modestly sized, very slightly blue obsidian serpent with spined wings...
Hey! It's the code for the snake in the top picture!

Everything is immune to drowning, but Magma, Fire and Smoke take damage from and cannot spawn in water.
Stone, Obsidian, Iron, Gold, Bedrock and Emerald are immune to magma and fire.
Sand, Sandstone and Glass are immune to fire.


Body shapes, 100 max:
(Wings and tails not included but more likely if the body type usually has these parts)
Blob (Blob)
Serpent (Serpent/fish)(Default tail guaranteed)
Carp (Serpent/fish)(Water restricted)
Eel (Serpent/fish)(Water restricted)
Lionfish (Serpent/fish)(Water restricted)
Dragon (4)(Default tail guaranteed)
Zombie (4)
Wolf (4)
Ender (4)
Horse (4)
Octopus (6+)
Spider (6+)
Mantis (6+)
Blaze (6+)
Ghast (6+)

Materials, 1000 max:
(Items named are drops. First item named is the ID for the material. Stats are measured in half hearts, and are affected by beast size, explained at the bottom. First number is rarity, higher is more common.)

10 Leather (Leather, Steak) Level 1 speed buff
60 health, 8 damage.

10 Scales (Quartz, Steak)
70 health, 9 damage.

5 Feather (Feather, Steak) Level 3 speed buff
50 health, 8 damage.

3 Skin (Steak)
60 health, 8 damage.

3 Skinless (Rotten flesh)
60 health, 8 damage.

5 Bones (Bone)
50 health, 9 damage.

6 Stone (Stone)
90 health, 8 damage.

2 Emerald (Emerald)
60 health, 12 damage.

2 Glass (Glass)
40 health, 16 damage.

3 Iron (Iron)
100 health, 12 damage.

1 Gold (Gold) Level 1 slow debuff
120 health, 10 damage.

1 Obsidian (Obsidian)
220 health, 12 damage.

1 Diamond (Diamond)
200 health, 15 damage.

1 Fire (Fire charge) 1/2 opacity, level 2 speed buff, leaves a trail of fire like snowmen leave snow.
25 health, 15 damage.

0.5 Lava (Lava) Leaves a trail of fire like snowmen leave snow. Places lava sources instead of dropping items.
100 health, 20 damage.

2 Smoke (Air) 1/10th opacity, level 10 speed buff.
25 health, 6 damage.

3 Snow (Snow)
50 health, 6 damage.

3 Sand (Sand)
60 health, 5 damage.

2 Sandstone (Sandstone)
70 health, 7 damage.

3 Ice (Packed Ice)
70 health, 12 damage.

3 Wood (Logs) +2 regen levels
80 health, 6 damage.

5 Leaves (Leaves) +5 regen levels
40 health, 4 damage.

0 Bedrock (Bedrock) Exists for abstract uses through commands.
Unlimited health, 10 damage.

Details, TBD:
What details should Forgotten Beasts have? (E.g antennae, tail, ears)

Special abilities, 10 max:
Blank(poison for melee)
Spit with splash(No default damage, poison guaranteed)
3 burst spit(Like Blaze attack without fire. No default damage, poison guaranteed)
Blaze Fire(Not in water)
Ghast fire
Conical fire that does the damage of fire, 20° spread, sets what it hits on fire, 10 block range.(Not in water)
Laser beam, 0.5 second charging animation during which aiming is disabled, replaces one non bedrock block it hits with a fire block, 1x1 wide beam, 10 hearts damage, 8 second interval.
Ender teleport, only every 5 seconds, half range(poison for melee)
Vampire, heals for the amount of damage it deals(poison for melee)

Special ability poisons, 8 max, each is level 0-9:
Poison
Wither
Weakness
Slowness
Blindness
Hunger
Nausea
Mining fatiuge

Effects of size
Size value ranges between 0-999.
Size is (Sizevalue+1)÷20, in blocks. So size 999 is 50 blocks high, 99 is 5, 0 is 1/20th.

Damage multiplier is the cube root of (9500x(Sizevalue+1)+50000), in percent.
Which puts 5 block highs at 100% damage, player sized at 75%, 10 block highs at 125%, 25 block highs at 169%, and godzilla (50 blocks high) at 212%.

Health multiplier is 0.9x(Sizevalue+1)+10, in percent.
Which puts 5 block highs at 100% damage, player sized at 46%, 10 block highs at 190%, 25 block highs at 460%, and 50 blocks high (A challenge for the whole server!) at 910%.

The total number of items dropped is 0.05x(Sizevalue+1)+1, rounded up.
So 6 for 5 block highs, and 51 for godzilla.
The amount of experience is the same x20.

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1. The order of the mods is important as some of them are designed to "overwrite" parts of other mods.
2. The ModLoader has to be first in the mods list, use the button Up to move it to first position. ModLoader is not needed if Forge 4.0 or newer is installed.
3. Then come (if you need them) ModLoaderMP and Forge.
4. Then come the rest of the mods and last comes OptiFine. Only one OptiFine edition may be active as they overwrite each other.
5. Do not forget to start with a clean minecraft.jar. If it is already modified or patched, then some mods may not work correctly.
6. A mod should appear either in the internal or the external mod list, but not in both at the same time.
7. Mods which have status "No mods found" needs to be repackaged to be used. The mod ZIP file usually have a folder "put_in_minecraft_jar" or similar which contains one or more files like "acx.class". The contents of this folder have to be zipped in a separate ZIP file and added as an internal mod. This solution works with almost all problematic mods.
8. If you get an error "No accelerated mode found" or "Bad OpenGL drivers" you may try running Minecraft with less memory. Go to "Setup -> Advanced", enter 256 in the field Memory and test again. This helps with some integrated graphics cards.

- Check for new Minecraft version and update Minecraft
- Incremental GC (-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode)
- XX:MaxDirectMemorySize
- mcmod.info in subfolder
- Configurable news tab
- Export mod list
- Update user skin
- Auto login
- Security
- LiteLoader mods
- Drag and drop
- Languages
- Command line options
- Mods with a subdirectory root
- Detect libraries (TurboModelThingy)
- Better conflict detection
- Portable, relative paths
- Limit worlds per profile
- Minecraft font
- Backups
- Support for patchers

• FPS boost (examples) - doubling the FPS is common - decreases lag spikes and smooths gameplay

• Support for HD Textures (info) - HD textures and HD fonts (MCPatcher not needed) - custom terrain and item textures - animated terrain and item textures - custom HD Font character widths - custom colors - custom block color palettes - custom lighting - unlimited texture size

• Support for Shaders (info) - based on the Shaders Mod by Karyonix

• Dynamic Lights - allows handheld and dropped light emitting items to illuminate the objects around them. It is similar, but not related to the Dynamic Lights mod

• Variable Render Distance (example) - from Tiny to Extreme (2 x Far) in 16m steps - sun, moon and stars are visible in Tiny and Short distance

• Configurable Smooth Lighting (examples) - from 1% - smooth lighting without shadows - to 100% - smooth lighting with full shadows

• Performance: VSync Synchronizes framerate with monitor refresh rate to remove split frames and smooth gameplay

• Smart Advanced OpenGL - more efficient, less artifacts - Fast - faster, some artifacts still visible - Fancy - slower, avoids visual artifacts

• Fog control - Fog: Fancy, Fast, OFF - Fog start: Near, Far

• Mipmaps (examples) - Visual effect which makes distant objects look better by smoothing the texture details - Mipmap level - OFF, 1, 2, 3, Max - Mipmap type - Nearest, Linear

• Anisotropic Filtering (examples) - Restores details in mipmapped textures - AF level - OFF, 2, 4, 8, 16 (depends on hardware support)

• Antialiasing (examples) - Smooths jagged lines and sharp color transitions - AA level - OFF, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 (depends on hardware support)

• Better Grass Fixes grass blocks side texture to match surrounding grass terrain

• Better Snow (examples, credit) Fixes transparent blocks textures to match surrounding snow terrain

• Clear Water (examples) Clear, transparent water with good visibility underwater

• Custom Sky (info) Use custom textures for the day and night skies. Multiple layers, blending options, time configuration.

• Random Mobs Use random mob textures if available in the texture pack

• Connected Textures (examples) Connects textures for glass, glass panes, sandstone and bookshelf blocks which are next to each other.

• Natural Textures (examples, idea) Removes the gridlike pattern created by repeating blocks of the same type. Uses rotated and flipped variants of the base block texture.

• Faster Math Uses smaller lookup table which fits better in the L1 CPU cache

• FPS control - Smooth FPS - stabilizes FPS by flushing the graphics driver buffers (examples) - Smooth Input - fixes stuck keys, slow input and sound lag by setting correct thread priorities

• Chunk Loading Control - Load Far - loads the world chunks at distance Far, allows fast render distance switching - Preloaded Chunks - defines an area in which no new chunks will be loaded - Chunk Updates per Frame - allows for faster world loading - Dynamic Updates - loads more chunks per frame when the player is standing still

• Configurable Details - Clouds - Default, Fast, Fancy - Cloud Height - from 0% to 100% - Trees - Default, Fast, Fancy - Grass - Default, Fast, Fancy - Water - Default, Fast, Fancy - Rain and Snow - Default, Fast, Fancy - Sky - ON, OFF - Stars - ON, OFF - Sun & Moon - ON, OFF - Depth Fog - ON, OFF - Weather - ON, OFF - Swamp Colors - ON, OFF - Smooth Biomes - ON, OFF - Custom Fonts - ON, OFF - Custom Colors - ON, OFF - Show Capes - ON, OFF (supports HD capes)

• Configurable animations - Water Animated - OFF, Dynamic, ON - Lava Animated - OFF, Dynamic, ON - Fire Animated - OFF, ON - Portal Animated - OFF, ON - Redstone Animated - OFF, ON - Explosion Animated - OFF, ON - Flame Animated - OFF, ON - Smoke Animated - OFF, ON - Void Particles - OFF, ON - Water Particles - OFF, ON - Rain Splash - OFF, ON - Portal Particles - OFF, ON - Dripping Water/Lava - OFF, ON - Terrain Animated - OFF, ON - Items Animated - OFF, ON

• Fast Texturepack Switching Switch the current Texturepack without leaving the world

• Fullscreen Resolution Configurable fullscreen resolution

• Debug - Fast Debug Info - removes lagometer from debug screen - Debug Profiler - removes profiler from debug screen

• Time Control Default, Day Only or Night Only - works in only in Creative mode

• Autosave - Configurable Autosave interval - A fix for the famous Lag Spike of Death

Even older versions of OptiFine are available in the OptiFine history.

Follow these steps to prevent a possible "Black Screen" problem when installing OptiFine:

1. Temporarily revert back to the Default Texture Pack.

2. Uninstall the HD Textures, HD Fonts, and Better Grass mods from the MCPatcher. These functions are included in OptiFine.

3. Set Graphics to Fancy

4. Install OptiFine and test with the Default Texture Pack to make sure everything is working.

5. Select your previous texture pack and graphics settings

6. Run Minecraft and enjoy

When installing OptiFine together with other mods always make sure to install OptiFine last. The only exception are mods which are designed to be installed after OptiFine and say so in their install instructions.

If you need ModLoader: Install OptiFine AFTER ModLoader.

If you need Forge: Install OptiFine AFTER Forge.

MCPatcher is NOT needed for HD textures, HD fonts and BetterGrass, they are included in OptiFine. Install OptiFine without MCPatcher's HD features for best performance.

If you need DynamicLights (ModLoader edition): Install OptiFine AFTER DynamicLights.

Compatible with: ModLoader, Forge, SinglePlayerCommands, TooManyItems, PlasticCraft, CJB's Modpack, Zan's Minimap, Rei's Minimap, DynamicLights, GLSL Shaders 2, LittleBlocks and many other.

Not compatible with: CCTV, The Aether.

A. Simple (for OptiFine 1.6.2_C4 and newer)

- Double-click the downloaded JAR file and the OptiFine installer should start

- Click "Install" and OptiFine will be installed in the official Minecraft launcher with its own profile "OptiFine"

- Start the official launcher and play

B. Easy

- Use the official launcher to download and start once Minecraft 1.6.2.

- Double-click the downloaded JAR file and the OptiFine installer should start

- Click "Extract" and save the OptiFine MOD file

- Start Magic Launcher

- Click "Setup"

- Select Environment "1.6.2"

- Click "Add" -> select the OptiFine MOD file

- Click "OK"

- Login and play

C. Complex

- Use the official launcher to download and start once Minecraft 1.6.2.

- Go to the minecraft base folder (the official launchers shows it when you click "Edit Profile" as "Game Directory")

- Go in subfolder "Versions"

- Rename the folder "1.6.2" to "1.6.2_OptiFine"

- Go in the subfolder "1.6.2_OptiFine"

- Rename "1.6.2.jar" to "1.6.2_OptiFine.jar"

- Rename "1.6.2.json" to "1.6.2_OptiFine.json"

- Open the file "1.6.2_OptiFine.json" with a text editor and replace "id":"1.6.2" with "id":"1.6.2_OptiFine" and save the file

- Copy the files from the OptiFine ZIP file in "1.6.2_OptiFine.jar" as usual (you can use the 1.5.2 instructions for this) and remove the META-INF folder from "1.6.2_OptiFine.jar".

- Start the official launcher

- Click "Edit Profile" - Select "Use version:" -> "release 1.6.2_OptiFine"

- Click "Save Profile"

- Click "Play" or "Login" to start the game. If only "Play Offline" is available, then log out and log in again to fix it.

Installation for Minecraft 1.6.2 with Forge

A. Easy

- Use the official launcher to download and start once Minecraft 1.6.2.

- Use the Forge installer to install Forge

- Use the official launcher to start once Minecraft with the Forge profile.

- Start Magic Launcher

- Click "Setup"

- Select Environment "Forge9.10.X.Y"

- Click "Add" -> select the OptiFine ZIP file

- Click "Advanced"

- In the field "Parameters" add "-Dfml.ignorePatchDiscrepancies=true"

- Click "OK"

- Login and play

B. Simple (for OptiFine 1.6.2_C4 and newer)

- Put the OptiFine JAR file in the Forge "mods" folder

- Start Minecraft and Forge should automatically load OptiFine

B. Complex (not working for Forge #780 and #781)

- Use the official launcher to download and start once Minecraft 1.6.2.

- Use the Forge installer to install Forge

- Go to the minecraft base folder (the official launchers shows it when you click "Edit Profile" as "Game Directory")

- Go in subfolder "Versions"

- Go in subfolder "Forge9.10.X.Y"

- Copy the files from the OptiFine ZIP file to "Forge9.10.X.Y.jar" as usual (you can use the 1.5.2 instructions for this) and remove the META-INF folder from "Forge9.10.X.Y.jar".

- Start the official launcher

- Select profile "Forge"

- Click "Edit Profile"

- Select the checkbox "JVM Arguments" and in the field next to it add "-Dfml.ignoreInvalidMinecraftCertificates=true -Dfml.ignorePatchDiscrepancies=true"

- Click "Save Profile"

- Click "Play" or "Login" to start the game. If only "Play Offline" is available, then log out and log in again to fix it.

If possible start with a clean minecraft.jar and check the mod compatibility section above.

A. Easy Installation

1. Download and start the Magic Launcher

2. Click Setup, click Add, select the downloaded zip file

3. Click OK, login and play Minecraft

B. Manual Installation

Windows/Linux Instructions:

1. Locate your minecraft.jar file. On Windows, it's in %APPDATA%/.minecraft/bin

2. Create a backup of minecraft.jar

3. Open minecraft.jar in an archive editor (WinRar/7-Zip/etc)

4. Delete the META-INF folder.

5. Copy (drag and drop) the .class files from the downloaded zip file into the jar file, replacing previous files.

6. Run Minecraft and test!

Mac Instructions:

1. Locate your minecraft.jar file. On Mac, it's in /Library/Application Support/minecraft/bin

2. Create a backup of minecraft.jar

3. Rename minecraft.jar to minecraft.zip and double-click it to extract the contents

4. Rename the resulting folder to minecraft.jar and open it

5. Copy the .class files from the downloaded zip into the minecraft.jar folder, replacing previous files

6. Run Minecraft and test!

The mod OptiFine is Copyright © 2013 by sp614x and the intellectual property of the author. It may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use as long as it remains in its unaltered, unedited form. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this mod on any other website or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited and a violation of copyright.