Trying to make custom modpack but it keeps loading vanilla!!!!

[arkleroy3]

I want to make a modpack for me and my friends to play so i watched a youtube video and found out how, i downloaded one mod and tested it but it just loaded vanilla and nothing else. no mods. I'm pretty sure i need config files but dont know how to get them. Plz HELP!!!

[arkleroy3]

this is the link for my modpack test http://www.technicpack.net/api/modpack/test-mod-pack-randomness

[Kalbintion]

• You have the modpack download zipped into a zipped folder (ie: modpack.zip/modpack.zip/contents). Correct this by only zipping up the bin and mods folders (see bullet #3 as well)
• You only have Optifine as a mod in the mods folder
• If you add more mods than optifine, ensure to add configs into the modpack (so zip up the config folder as well) - without it can cause serious issues.

[arkleroy3]

how do I add those configs?

[Kalbintion]

Configs are generated by default when a mod is loaded and would generate in the /configs/ folder (where the /mods/ and /bin/ folder are) when the pack is ran. You still have that first bullet point to resolve though before you should worry about adding additional mods and resolving configs.

[arkleroy3]

ok thanks for the help, ill let you know if I have any other problems.

[arkleroy3]

ok so I fixed the first issue and tried it on my real modpack but it still runs vanilla the dropbox link is https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2zrhtx8ycugskou/AAC8c1_znsNNeQkEocVfRK23a?dl=1 and the technic link is http://www.technicpack.net/api/modpack/the-doomcraft-modpack

[plowmanplow]

• The contents of your modpack archive ZIP file is another ZIP archive. No need to zip things up twice as it won't work that way.

[Kalbintion]

What plow said, and what I said originally. You only need to zip up once and only once.

[arkleroy3]

Yes, it works now thank you SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!

[arkleroy3]

OK, so i have a new issue now, the launcher begins to load the modpack but then it just re opens the launcher, and no minecraft.

[arkleroy3]

BTW the dropbox link is https://www.dropbox.com/s/ghu2gxai1c4713v/modpack.zip?dl=1 and the technic link is http://www.technicpack.net/api/modpack/the-doomcraft-modpack

Edited September 17, 2014 by arkleroy3

[Kalbintion]

• Pack URL on the launcher has a different URL to download than the one provided here. Make sure you updated the packs version # and modpack URL.