Minecraft Forge is one of the oldest modloaders for Minecraft and has a well-established ecosystem of mods and tools for nearly every version. Like Fabric, it can modify both the client and server, so can be used in the the creation of modpacks.
Client/Server Side
Forge Mods can be any of the following three options:
- Fully client sided.
- Meaning they won’t run on a server.
- Both client and server.
- meaning they’re needed on the server and any client that connects to the server.
- Fully server sided.
- Meaning clients connecting to a server won’t need them, but they might work when a client plays in single player.