Manual Installation

This is the standard method to install Minecraft mods.

What you'll need

To install BTW you will need the following:

• The latest version of ModLoader found here.
• The latest version of Better Than Wolves found here.
• An archive utility such as 7-Zip or Win-RAR

You do not need to extract ModLoader or BTW from their zip files

Installation

1) BTW should be installed in a clean version of Minecraft (i.e. no other mods are installed). To do this follow these steps:

• Open Minecraft
• Click 'Options'
• Click 'Force Update'
• Click 'Done'
• Login
• Minecraft will download a clean version of all the necessary files, once it has finished you will see the title screen
• Quit Minecraft

2) Next you need to locate where Minecraft is installed on your computer. The default location is C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft. To get here quickly follow these steps:

• Hold the windows key and press R
• In the Run window type %APPDATA%
• Click 'Ok'
• Windows Explorer will open the AppData folder
• Open the .minecraft folder
• The folder should look like the image below (you may have some additional folders)
• If you have a 'mods' folder make sure it is empty

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  Run window

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  Clean Minecraft folder

3) Next you will need to open minecraft.jar using your archive utility. To do this:

• Open the 'bin' folder in .minecraft
• Right-click on minecraft.jar and select 'Open with'
• If you see your archive utility listed, select it and click 'Ok' then skip to step 4. If not then keep reading
• If your archive utility is not listed then you need to find it.
• For 7-Zip
  • In the 'Open with' window click 'Browse'
  • The folder 'Program Files' will open
  • Open the '7-Zip' folder
  • Select '7zFM' and click 'Open'
  • Click 'Ok'
• For Win-RAR
  • In the 'Open with' window click 'Browse'
  • The folder 'Program Files' will open
  • Open the 'WinRAR' folder
  • Select 'WinRAR' and click 'Open'
  • Click 'Ok'

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  Opening minecraft.jar

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  Selecting your archive utility

4) A window will open showing you the contents of minecraft.jar. We need to delete a folder then add some files. When adding files in the next few steps make sure you are putting them in minecraft.jar and not one of the folders inside it!

• Delete the META-INF folder by right-clicking it and selecting 'delete'
• Find where you downloaded ModLoader.zip and open it
• Select all the files in ModLoader.zip (CTRL+A) then drag and drop them into the minecraft.jar window (click Yes when prompted to)
• Close the ModLoader.zip window
• Find where you downloaded BTWModx-xx.zip and open it (x-xx is replaced by the latest version number of BTW )
• Open the folder called MINECRAFT-JAR
• Select all the files (CTRL+A) then drag and drop them into the minecraft.jar window (click Yes when prompted to)
• Close BTWModx-xx.zip and minecraft.jar

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  Delete META-INF

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  Contents of ModLoader.zip

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  Dragging and dropping the ModLoader files into minecraft.jar

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  Contents of BTWModx-xx.zip

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  Contents of MINECRAFT-JAR folder

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  Dragging and dropping the MINECRAFT-JAR folder files into minecraft.jar

Better Than Wolves is now installed and ready to play!