Help....Buildcraft.......multiple folders.....me.....incompetent......bad youtube videos
Yeah so there are 4 download links to A and B and stuff and the only youtube video I can find I dislike.
Do I download all 4 links and then just copy and past it all into my minecraft.jar?
Nope. You create a folder named
MODS inside your
.minecraft folder, and put the 4 (or 5) zipfiles there. Don't unpack them, don't merge them with minecraft.jar, just drop them into
.minecraft/MODS .
As a prerequisite, though, you have to properly install ModLoader and ModLoaderMP. If you're using the new forge-compatible one, you also have to properly install minecraftforge. These all do have to be merged into the minecraft.jar .
EDIT: also, minecraft forge isn't up to date with 1.8 Do I need it for buildcraft? The notes seem to say I do but obviously people have used the mod already.
Old Buildcraft, that is not forge compatible, is out for 1.8.1 but is considered unstable/testing:
!!!WARNING!!! The 1.8.1 port is pretty much work in progress. Only the stable 1.X branch has been ported so far, which does not rely on the Forge yet. The 2.X beta release will take much more time. Even this "stable" release is provided with big red flags, for convenience. But it has almost not being tested, and in particular I was not able to run a functional server. So consider all the 1.8.1 based version as unstable for now, as a sandbox release, and be patient. Things takes time.