Installation
SO can be installed just as you would any other Modrinth modpack. A lot of the third-party launchers nowadays support downloading and installing modpacks automatically; Prism Launcher and ATLauncher are two popular ones.
In these launchers, installing any modpack is only a few clicks. See Modrinth's Playing Modpacks page for more information.
Unfortunately, some launchers (including Mojang's official launcher) don't support installing mods and modpacks automatically. If you have to or need to use such a launcher, here's what you need to do to install SO (this can be applied to any modpack from Modrinth)
Simply Optimized is built on Fabric; therefore, you need to prepare a Fabric instance to install the modpack.
If you're using Mojang's official launcher, go to https://fabricmc.net/use/installer/ to download and run the Fabric installer. Select the Minecraft version you want (for the list of Minecraft versions currently supported by SO, look at which versions are featured); then, proceed with the installation. A new profile should show up in the launcher (restart it if it doesn't).
It's a good idea to go into the profile's settings and set the game directory to its corresponding folder in .minecraft/versions/; either way, remember this directory, we'll need it for the next step.
Other launchers are likely to have a way to install mod loaders such as Fabric in-app, and if so, you should use that; the above, for the most part, only applies to Mojang's launcher.
This step is to convert a version of the modpack uploaded in the .mrpack format which, for the most part, stores not the mods themselves, but only where they can be found, to a folder or archive with all of the files intended to be in the pack. There are a few ways to go about this:
- https://jamie.codeberg.page/mrpack-to-zip/@master/ (In case it's inaccessible, use this instead)
This website allows you to convert an .mrpack (which you can download at https://modrinth.com/modpack/sop/versions) to a zip archive with all of the pack's intended contents. After you've got the archive, unarchive it so that the mods and config folders, options.txt and other contents end up in the directory you've taken note of before. Override any exisiting files at this location.
You must use the config folder in addition to the pack's mods. Otherwise you'll miss out on many performance tweaks and the game may not even start up in the case of recently released Minecraft versions.
Superpack is a program designed to quickly download and extract Modrinth modpacks. Download and execute the .jar it's distributed as, find and select SO in its interface, select your desired Minecraft version, the working directory of your Fabric profile you've taken note of and click install.
If you can't execute the jar file, jarfix might be helpful.
After completing this step, you should be able to launch into your installation as normal with SO installed. If you want to update the modpack, you'll need to redo the whole process.
