About this site

How to Mod Minecraft exists because installing Minecraft mods is not difficult, and almost everything written about it makes it seem that way. Four things have to agree with each other — your Minecraft version, your mod loader, your Java runtime and each mod file — and nothing in the game tells you when they do not. Most guides explain the steps without explaining that, which is why people follow instructions correctly and still end up with a game that either crashes or opens looking completely untouched.

The site is narrow on purpose. It covers installing mods, choosing between loaders, fixing crashes, and running modded servers. It does not cover seeds, building tutorials, redstone contraptions or enchantment tables, all of which are well served elsewhere and none of which are what people are searching for at two in the morning when the game will not start.

Who writes it

Sukie

Editor

Sukie runs How to Mod Minecraft. She writes and edits every guide on the site, works through each install path herself before publishing, and rewrites anything that turns out to be wrong. The focus here is narrow on purpose: getting mods, loaders and modded servers working without wading through forum threads.

Sukie writes and edits everything published here. There is one editor rather than a rotating pool of contributors, which is deliberate — a consistent voice and a single person accountable for accuracy is worth more on a site like this than volume.

She keeps a low public profile and does not publish personal details, which is a choice about privacy rather than an attempt to seem larger than the site is. There is no team behind this, no company, and no pretence otherwise. If something here is wrong, it is one person’s fault, and the contact address goes directly to her.

How guides get written

Every guide starts from a real question people are actually searching for, not from a keyword list of things that sound plausible. The install failures documented here — version mismatches, missing Fabric API, the mods folder that does not exist until first launch — are the ones that come up repeatedly in forums, issue trackers and Discord support channels.

Claims that can be checked are checked against primary sources: Mojang’s own documentation, the Fabric and NeoForge project sites, mod authors’ own pages, and the Java specification for anything about runtimes. Where a page cites a source, it links to it. Where something is uncertain or version-dependent, the page says so rather than stating it flatly.

The full process, including how AI is used in research and drafting, is documented on the editorial process page. It is worth reading if you want to know how much of what you are reading was written by a person.

The data on this site is real, and it refreshes itself

Several pages carry tables of mod counts by Minecraft version and by loader. Those are not estimates or figures copied from another article. They are pulled directly from Modrinth’s public API on a daily schedule, and each table prints the date it was last refreshed.

This matters because the most useful facts in modding go stale fastest. The observation that the three-year-old 1.20.1 branch still has roughly twice as many mods as the current release is genuinely useful, genuinely counterintuitive, and would be wrong within a year if it were written down once and left alone. Reading it from the source every day means it stays true.

What this site will not do

• Host or redistribute mod files. Every download link points at the author's own page on Modrinth or CurseForge, where they get the download credit and you get the real file.
• Recommend a mod because someone paid for it. Nobody has, and if that ever changes it will be disclosed on the page rather than in a footer.
• Pretend to be official. This is a fan site, it has no relationship with Mojang or Microsoft, and the disclaimer at the bottom of every page is a condition of using the Minecraft name in the domain.
• Publish content on topics it does not know well, in order to cover more ground.

Corrections

Modding changes constantly. Loaders fork, mods are abandoned, Minecraft updates and breaks things, and a guide that was accurate in March can be wrong by September. If you find something here that is out of date or simply incorrect, the fastest way to get it fixed is to say so at sukielovesupport@gmail.com.

Corrections are made to the page itself and the last-updated date is changed to reflect it. There are currently 20 published guides, and every one of them carries the date it was last reviewed.

How the site is funded

Server hosting companies are linked from the pages about running modded servers. Where those links become affiliate links, the disclosure appears on the page itself and in the footer, and it will never change which hosts are recommended or what is said about them — a host that is bad at modded Minecraft will be described that way regardless.

The site may also carry display advertising. That is the entire commercial model: no paid reviews, no sponsored guides, no newsletter selling your address.