What is minepatch?

minepatch is Yet Another Minecraft mod loader. Most loaders require making at least an initial modification of the Minecraft jar, and the ones that don't I could never get to work consistently. I figure if I have to modify the jar anyway, I might as well just put all the mods in there while I'm at it. minepatch automates this process.

How do I use it?

Requirements

You'll need to have Python 2.6 or 2.7 installed.

Installing

If you'd like to clone the entire repository:

• git clone the repo into your .minecraft/bin directory.

If you'd rather just copy the patch.py file:

• Place patch.py directly into your .minecraft/bin directory.
• Edit patch.py and remove the ../ prefixes from the CLEAN, PATCHED, and MOD_DIR constants near the top of the file.

Regardless of how you "installed" the tool, you should now do the following:

• Make a copy of minecraft.jar and rename it to minecraft_clean.jar.
• Create a ModLibrary directory inside of .minecraft/bin.
• Place .zipped or extracted copies of the mods you want installed inside of ModLibrary.
• Run patch.py.

You should now have a minecraft.jar that includes the mods you copied into ModLibrary. Have fun.

Notes

Mods are installed in alphabetical order. You can rename the zipped mods if you need to force a specific ordering.

Known Issues

• Mods packaged as .rar aren't supported.
• This will (hopefully!) be obsolete once Minecraft 1.7 is released.