Help Getting Mods working w/ Iris/Sodium
Hi! So, I'm super new to Java Minecraft and getting mods and shaders to work. I installed the Iris/Sodium download from the main website and am struggling to get mods working with it (I got shaders working fine). I tried installing fabric and the fabricAPI separately, and that created a new instance of MC in the MC launcher, but it would not show options for shaders in the video settings menu. So, I removed the separate fabric and it's new files it created in the .fabric folder and tried moving the mod i confirmed working into other folders in the .minecraft folder- mods & proccessedMods in the .fabric folder and neither of them would load the mod in the Iris Sodium instance.
My friend suggested getting a mod manager/launcher like MultiMC or GD Launcher. But I'm checking here first to see if maybe it's something I'm missing as a newbie to this.
So some help getting this working would be great! I I need to clarify anything let me know.
I'm on Windows 11, Minecraft is 1.20.4 and just using the base Minecraft Launcher. Using Modrinth to install mods.
Thanks for all your help and time!
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you need to install sodium and iris as fabric mods
you can just run the iris installer and select fabric install
if you want to do it manually you can get them from modrinth and put them in the mods folder
So should I uninstall Iris/Sodium and just get fabric & fabricAPI hen redownload Iris and sodium separately from Modrinth?
i do have a folder in Roaming called .iris-installer which has a zip containing a folder called mods (it has 2 exe. jar files for iris and sodium) has should I try that or does it mean nothing?
you don't have to uninstall the iris profile. It doesn't affect anything
you just need to rerun the iris installer with fabric install selected
or the manual method which I stated above
I still think IMS needs to make Fabric the default option for installing Iris
it causes so much confusion like this when Iris is the default
if you want me to do that, get Fabric to make version mod folders
like mods/1.20.4
GitHub
Load mods from Version Subfolders · Issue #181 · FabricMC/fabric-lo...
Hi, I think it would be great and relatively easy to implement for Fabric to load mods from subfolders of the "mods" folder named like the versions (for example 1.14.4 and 1.15).
separate mods folders would be so good
Alright was looking back at the video I used to aid my install of Iris/Sodium and I chose iris install when it probably should've been fabric install (if I'm catching your drift) so just rerun this installation and choose fabric install instead? the mods would go inside the mod folder? Correct me if I'm wrong on anything ^^ I'm a visiual person so it takes me a sec.
yes
that will put the mod versions of sodium and iris in the mods folder, which will then be loaded once you launch the fabric profile
alright let me try that ^^
So i did the rerun and that created a new instance in the MC launcher that was fabric and it seems like Iris/Sodium is running (wooo!!!!) I moved the mod into the mods folder in .minecraft which had the Iris and sodium in it, and it gave me this error.
okay yeah that error is bs
"fabric" is actually the mod name for Fabric API
which is a mod lol
correction it gave me that error when i tried to run minecraft
So should I install the newest ver. fabric API from modrinth and put it in the mods folder and then try again? I know the mod works its for fabric and its 1.20.4 and I had it running on that separate instance of fabric i mentioned in my original comment.
yep
yay that fixed it! Thank you guys so much you were such a big help!