What does deleting the Minecraft folder in CurseForge do?

Deleting the CurseForge Minecraft modding folder removes every profile stored in it: mods, configs, and any worlds you created in those profiles. It does not touch your regular Minecraft installation or worlds you made outside CurseForge. Copy out any saves you want to keep before you delete it.

Can I uninstall a mod without breaking my world?

Sometimes. Mods that only change visuals or performance usually come out cleanly. Mods that add blocks, items or creatures leave gaps in any world that used them. Back up the world, disable the mod rather than deleting it, load the world, and only delete once it opens correctly. The guide on removing Minecraft mods covers recovery if it does not.

Will reinstalling a modpack bring back my old worlds?

Not if the profile folder was deleted. A fresh install creates a new, empty saves folder. If you backed up your world folders, copy them into the new profile's saves folder and they will appear in the world list, provided the pack version still includes the mods they were built with.

Guide

How to Uninstall CurseForge Mods

How to uninstall CurseForge mods depends on where the mod went: inside a CurseForge app profile you remove it from the profile's mod list, a file you downloaded from the website you simply delete from your mods folder, and a Bedrock add-on you delete inside Minecraft itself.

Pick the situation below that matches yours and follow only that one. The CurseForge app, the CurseForge website and Bedrock Edition each put files in different places, which is why a mod can look gone in one spot and still load from another. Before deleting anything that touches a world you care about, copy its save folder somewhere safe. Removing content is easy; getting a world back after a careless delete usually is not.

You are not sure which kind of CurseForge content you have

Work this out first, because the removal steps are completely different for each case and mixing them up is the main reason mods seem to survive an uninstall.

You launch the game from the CurseForge app's My Modpacks tab: the mod lives in an app profile. Use the profile steps below.
You downloaded a .jar from curseforge.com and dropped it into a folder yourself: it is a manual install. Delete the file.
You play on a phone, tablet, console or the Windows Bedrock version and got an add-on, map or texture pack from CurseForge's Bedrock section: Minecraft imported it. Remove it inside Minecraft.
You want the CurseForge app itself gone: that is a normal program uninstall, and it leaves your mods where they are.

You want one mod gone from a modpack you installed

Downloaded modpacks are locked by default, so the app will not let you edit their mod list until you allow it. CurseForge's own support article on customizing modpacks describes the switch; the steps below follow it.

Enabling this has a cost. CurseForge states that while content management is on, the modpack cannot be updated or changed to another version. If you later turn it off, your custom changes are overwritten at the next update unless you update into a new profile.

Open the CurseForge app and go to the My Modpacks tab.
Click the modpack you want to change.
Open the context menu (the three dots) and choose Profile Options.
Tick Allow content management for this profile, then click Done.
Find the mod in the profile's installed mods list.
Use the toggle to switch it off, or the delete control next to it to remove it outright.
Launch once to confirm the pack still reaches the title screen.

You built your own profile and want a mod out of it

Profiles you created yourself are not locked, so you can skip the content-management step. Open the profile, find the mod in its installed list and delete it. CurseForge's release notes for app version 1.272 (February 2025) added the option to delete mods directly from the Add More Content section as well, so you can also remove a mod from the same screen you used to add it.

My Modpacks, then click your custom profile.
Locate the mod in the installed list, or open Add More Content and find it there.
Delete it and relaunch to check nothing else depended on it.

You might want the mod back later

Disable instead of delete. The toggle in the installed list keeps the file but stops it from loading, which is exactly what you want when you are testing whether a mod causes a crash or a lag spike.

This is also the safer move on a long-running world. If a disabled mod turns out to have added blocks or items your world relies on, you switch it back on and nothing is lost. A deleted mod has to be found and reinstalled at the right version first.

Disable when troubleshooting or unsure.
Delete once you have loaded your world without the mod and everything looks right.
Keep a note of the exact mod version you removed if the world matters to you.

You want the whole modpack or profile gone

Deleting the profile is the cleanest way to remove a pack, every mod in it, and its configs in one go. The same three-dot context menu that holds Profile Options also holds the profile's other actions, including removing it; menu wording shifts between app versions, so look for the delete or remove entry there.

Treat this as deleting the whole instance folder, worlds included. Back up first, as described two sections down.

Back up any worlds you want to keep from the pack's saves folder.
Go to My Modpacks.
Open the three-dot menu on the pack you want gone.
Choose the delete option and confirm.
Check the CurseForge modding folder afterwards to make sure the pack's folder has actually gone.

You need to find where CurseForge keeps everything

CurseForge's getting-started article lists the default Minecraft modding folder for the Standard setup. If you chose Advanced during setup, it is wherever you pointed it.

Each profile gets its own folder inside that modding folder, with its own mods, config and saves folders.
The quickest route to one profile's folder is the profile's three-dot menu, then Open Folder.
If you moved the modding folder in settings, the app can move existing modpacks with it, so look in the new location, not the old one.

System	Default folder
Windows	C:\Users\[user]\curseforge\minecraft\
macOS	/Users/[user]/Documents/curseforge/minecraft/

Default CurseForge Minecraft modding folder (Standard setup). Source: CurseForge Support, Getting Started, read October 2026.

You have worlds inside the pack you care about

Worlds made in a CurseForge profile are stored inside that profile's folder, not in your regular Minecraft saves. That is what deleting the profile removes along with the mods, so copy them out first. A copy outside the CurseForge folder survives no matter what the app does next.

Close Minecraft completely.
In CurseForge, open the profile's three-dot menu and choose Open Folder.
Open the saves folder.
Copy each world folder you want to keep to a backup location such as Documents or an external drive.
Only then remove mods or delete the profile.

You downloaded the mod from the CurseForge website, not the app

Downloading a .jar from curseforge.com and placing it yourself means CurseForge is not tracking it at all. Uninstalling is just deleting the file from wherever you put it, usually the mods folder of your Minecraft directory or of a launcher instance.

Close the game and the launcher.
Open the mods folder you installed it into. The mods folder guide linked below covers every launcher.
Find the mod's .jar by its name.
Move it to your desktop rather than deleting it, so you can put it back if the world complains.
Launch, load your world, and delete the moved file once everything works.

You removed a mod and it is still in the game

A mod that keeps loading is almost always still present as a file somewhere the game reads from. Work through these in order.

Confirm you edited the profile you are actually launching; it is easy to clean one profile and play another.
Open the profile with Open Folder and look in its mods folder for the .jar by hand. If it is still there, delete it with the game closed.
Check for a second copy under a slightly different file name, such as an older version you added manually.
If you installed the mod manually as well as through the app, remove the manual copy from your regular .minecraft mods folder too.
Fully restart the CurseForge app so its list matches what is on disk.

You are on Bedrock and got add-ons from CurseForge

CurseForge's Bedrock section offers addons, maps, texture packs, scripts and skins. Once you open one of these files, Minecraft imports it, and from that point CurseForge plays no further part. That answers the common worry about removing add-ons without the CurseForge app: you never needed it, because removal happens inside Minecraft.

Microsoft's add-on documentation explains that an imported pack shows up in a world's Behavior Pack or Resource Pack tab when you edit that world, so start there.

Back up the world if it matters.
From Play, edit the world that uses the add-on.
Open its Behavior Packs or Resource Packs tab and remove the pack from the active list. This only affects that world.
To remove the pack from the device entirely, open Minecraft's Settings and use its storage section, which lists installed packs and lets you delete them. Layout and labels differ by platform and version.
On Windows, you can also delete the pack's folder from behavior_packs or resource_packs inside com.mojang, with the game closed.

Bedrock com.mojang folder on Windows (paste into Win+R), per Microsoft Learn

%appdata%\Minecraft Bedrock\users\shared\games\com.mojang

You are on a phone or tablet

Mobile works the same way as any other Bedrock device: whether the add-on came from the CurseForge website in your phone's browser or anywhere else, it was imported into Minecraft and is removed from inside Minecraft. There is no CurseForge app step on mobile to undo.

Use the world's pack tabs to deactivate it, then the storage section of Minecraft's Settings to delete it. You can also delete the downloaded file from your phone's Downloads folder; that only clears the installer file and does not remove the imported pack from the game.

Deactivate in the world first so the world stops expecting it.
Delete from Minecraft's storage settings to free space.
Clear the leftover download from your file manager if you want the space back.

You want to uninstall the CurseForge app itself

CurseForge's support article is explicit that uninstalling the app will not affect your installed mods and content; they remain installed. So removing the app does not clean up your profiles. Delete or back up the modding folder yourself if you want that space back.

Windows: open Add or remove programs, find CurseForge and choose Uninstall. With the Overwolf version you can choose whether to remove Overwolf as well.
Windows standalone version, optional: delete the CurseForge folder in %AppData% (C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\).
Mac: move CurseForge from Applications to the Trash, then remove the CurseForge folders under Library > Logs and Application Support.
Then decide what to do with the modding folder: back up any saves, and delete it if you no longer need the profiles.

Questions people actually ask

What does deleting the Minecraft folder in CurseForge do?: Deleting the CurseForge Minecraft modding folder removes every profile stored in it: mods, configs, and any worlds you created in those profiles. It does not touch your regular Minecraft installation or worlds you made outside CurseForge. Copy out any saves you want to keep before you delete it.
Can I uninstall a mod without breaking my world?: Sometimes. Mods that only change visuals or performance usually come out cleanly. Mods that add blocks, items or creatures leave gaps in any world that used them. Back up the world, disable the mod rather than deleting it, load the world, and only delete once it opens correctly. The guide on removing Minecraft mods covers recovery if it does not.
Will reinstalling a modpack bring back my old worlds?: Not if the profile folder was deleted. A fresh install creates a new, empty saves folder. If you backed up your world folders, copy them into the new profile's saves folder and they will appear in the world list, provided the pack version still includes the mods they were built with.