nimzy

Have to drop a note here and give thanks for the guide. My modpack is working, albeit with a few things I still need to iron out in the configs. (Why did I zip the entire config folder? Why?) I also wanted to give back a bit, since the next step after making your modpack is making a basic server that runs said modpack. Download minecraft_server.jar direct from Mojang. Download the latest universal binary from Forge. Open both files in your favorite archive manager, I use 7zip. Delete the META-INF folder in minecraft_server.jar. Copy all the files in the Forge .zip into minecraft_server.jar. Put the minecraft_server.jar in a folder you want to keep your server in. Open your favorite text editor, like Notepad, and copy-paste the line "java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui" into it without the quotes. Save the text file as something like start.bat in the server directory. Copy your modpack's mods, coremods and config directories into the server folder. Make sure you delete any configs and mods that are UI related, like InventoryTweaks, minimaps and stuff like Dynamic Lighting. Run start.bat, let the server launch completely, then close the window to stop the server. A bunch of new files will have generated in the server folder. The one you want to open in your text editor is server.properties, which has all your server settings in it. Now you should be well on your way.

Never mind, I figured out what was happening with my modpack. NB: ensure that you're only zipping the directories (bin, mods, coremods, config) and not the folder they're contained in. They have to be at / in the zip.