[LauraMedia]

Yeah I still remember when you had to manually patch your minecraft.jar with mods. Always remove the META-INF directory so it works. Back then, when you installed two mods that were incompatible with each other, you had to throw away the whole minecraft.jar and start again.

This already changed A LOT when Forge and later Fabric came out, with a simple patch system akin to BepinEx and a mods folder.