How do I create multiple Minecraft installations? [duplicate]

I would like to play different mods. I want to play Attack Of B team on one Minecraft, another on a different mod, and a vanilla Minecraft. I don't know if I have to have separate Minecraft files, but I want to do that. Also, I don't know computer stuff very well so try to explain it as well as you can.

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Best Answer

What you are looking for is "Profiles"

Open your launcher up and navigate to the "Profile Editor" tab
Click on the "New Profile" Option
Enter information into the fields
- Name: Attack of the B-Team
- Game Directory: C:\Users\< USER_NAME >\AppData\Roaming.minecraft\AttackOfBTeam
- Use version: pick your version this probably contains "forge" in it
- JVM Arguments: -Xmx2G

What did we just do?

We added a new instance of the version of forge in your ".minecraft" folder, now you want to do this again for Snapshots and Recommended, for snapshots you will check the "Enable experimental development versions" box

Your game directories should be bound to:

C:\Users\ < USER_NAME >\AppData\Roaming.minecraft\Snapshots
C:\Users\ < USER_NAME >\AppData\Roaming.minecraft\Recommended

Respectively, next your going to want to copy worlds, servers and texturepacks into recommended. You will want to put your AotB-Team in its respective folder aswell.

To play the current version of minecraft you will choose: Recommended

To play the latest version of minecraft you will choose: Snapshot

To play AotB-Team you will choose: Attack of the B-Team

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How do you make multiple instances of Minecraft?

Ever since 1.6. 1 (July 2013), the Minecraft Launcher has supported multiple Minecraft versions installed concurrently through the use of profiles. If you want to use a snapshot version or an old Alpha/Beta build, you will need to click the checkbox to enable them.

Can you have more than one version of Minecraft installed?

To answer your question: No, you can't have two versions of Forge installed over the same Minecraft installation, and neither can you have a mod compiled for a future/previous version of Forge run alongside those that has been compiled for said version.

Can you have 2 Forge installations?

Right click the Minecraft shortcut on your desktop and select "Properties". If you do not have a shortcut, navigate to the folder where you installed Minecraft, right click MinecraftLauncher.exe, and click "Create Shortcut". Replace "DIR_PATH" with the directory you want the game to use.

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