Forge Mod Loader Wont Load With Custom ModPack

[asapgamer]

Hello.

I have just finishing making a personal Custom Modpack for me and my friends, i was really hesitant to post here due to the fact that i may have to share the mod pack and in turn sharing it with others as the mod pack is only used for personal use. First off my friend has made a technic pack before thou he hasnt been on in 1 year and has closed down the technic page (deleted the mod pack) thou i still had the mod pack in my technic folder and it still continued to work as normal we had a server that ran off the mod pack for 4 months after he deleted the mod pack and it still continued to work. i added more mods to it making a better mod pack and all works fine using my friends mod pack that i had modified to make better by adding my own mods, i have been using this modified version of my mates mod pack for 3 months now and i can still load it up now and it would work.  a few days ago i decided to copy all the contents from the folder and to create it as a new mod pack on technic website. as far as i know i did everything right zipped the folder ect. when things stopped working i tryed modifying the folder even more adding a fresh install of forge to it and FML but still nothing works ill link my mod pack below any help would be much appreciated 

 

Technic launcher: http://www.technicpack.net/modpack/details/crafting-z-modpack.421422

Direct Link To Folder: http://copy.com/cM8CXtoRirTZ/Crafting%20Z%201.6.4.zip

[plowmanplow]

• Your modpack contents are in a subfolder. All of the required folders (bin, config, mods) must be in the top level of the folder structure inside your modpack archive.
• You have zipped up the entire contents of your client folder as your modpack archive. Your archive should ONLY contain these folders: bin, config, Flan, mods. Plese note that the Flan folder should have a capital "F" at the beginning, not lower case.
• Your bin folder should only contain "modpack.jar" which is the Forge universal binary JAR file renamed to be "modpack.jar".
• Your Forge version is out of date. You should upate to Forge for 1.6.4 #965. (see previous bullet point)

As you have it packaged, your modpack is over 360 megabytes in size. Packaged correctly, the modpack is less than 20 megabytes.

[asapgamer]

sorry for the other topic post and thank you for your help. also sorry for the late reply im going to try what you suggested now

[asapgamer]

plowmanplow what do you mean by top level of archive? im quite a noob with making mod packs

[plowmanplow]

The folder structure inside your archive ZIP file looks like this:

 

Crafting Z 1.6.4

  |- bin

  |- config

  |- Flan

  |- mods

 

Note that the required folders are inside of a top level folder. This is wrong and will cause the pack not to work. All four of those folders should be at the top level of the folder structure. Practically speaking, you need be inside the folder on your hard drive with those folders and select JUST those folders, right-click and use the context menu for your ZIP archiving software to create the modpack archive.

[asapgamer]

im sorry for the multiple replys but i did what you told me to just unsure about the problem i mentioned above, the file is now 27.5MB on my computer is this right? I decided to screenshot what the files look like http://imgur.com/aIOEZD9,JT4VyR7,qQKdZus#0 can you tell me if it look ok? and what files i have to zip up

[asapgamer]

god im such a noob im sorry dude but i have no idea how to do this, do you know what i could search on google or youtube for a tutorial?

[plowmanplow]

You want the folder structure to look like this. '>

 

Note that all those folders are currently selected. You would do the same, then right-click and add them to a zip file.

[asapgamer]

aaaaaah! I see thanks so much dude your help is much appreciated! 

[asapgamer]

So It gives you 1 Zipped file fulled with the other files is this correct? do i used the zip file or the whole entire folder?

http://imgur.com/t7vjIYn

[plowmanplow]

You use the zip file.

[asapgamer]

plowmanplow i dont know what im doing wrong this time but when installing the pack it does everything correct everything is there but not forge, i put forge into the bin file and renamed it to modpack.jar and its the latest universal version for 1.6.4 and it still doesnt install

[asapgamer]

the mod pack loads up alot better thou and has no errors just the problem with the forge loading up http://www.technicpack.net/modpack/details/crafting-z-modpack.421422 doesnt seem to want to load, normal vanilla loads instead

[plowmanplow]

• Your modpack.jar file is actually named "modpack.jar.jar". In order to prevent this you need to set your Explorer to "always show file extensions". Google that phrase.
• You are using an ancient version of OptiFine. You need to get the latest version. (HD_D1).

[asapgamer]

Thank you so much plowman it works like a charm now, the community is greatful to have you keep up the awesome work