mia_arcade MI
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Minecraft Oct 30, 2026

why is everyone switching from forge to neoforge

half the mods i want now only have neoforge versions. what's actually different between the two loaders, and can a forge modpack still run neoforge mods or do i have to pick one?
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arun_plays Nov 04, 2026
mia_arcade
NeoForge is a fork of Forge made in 2023 by most of the people who were actually maintaining Forge, after a falling out with the person who owned the project. So the mod developers followed the maintainers. From about 1.20.2 onward the big mods started targeting NeoForge, and by 1.21 most of them do, so if you want the current versions of your mods you end up on NeoForge whether you care about the drama or not. For old versions nothing changes, Forge is still what you use on 1.12 or 1.16.
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