CoFH Core Setup Guide for Minecraft Forge Servers

What CoFH Core actually does

Running a Forge server often surfaces small frictions. A player needs a crafting table and there is none nearby, an ender chest sits in a base three thousand blocks away, an operator wants quick access to features without breaking immersion. CoFH Core fills those gaps with a set of commands and tweakable settings, and it doubles as the foundation that other CoFH mods plug into.

It works out of the box. You drop it in, restart, and the commands are ready. The config file is there if you want to adjust permissions or tune numeric values, but most setups never need to touch it.

Installing CoFH Core

You need the same version of the mod on your launcher and on the server, otherwise the game will refuse to connect.

On the client

• Open the CoFH Core page on CurseForge and click Files.

• Scroll to the Minecraft version you are running and click the mod name.
• Press Download to grab the jar file.

• Move the jar into the `mods` folder of your launcher profile. The exact path depends on which launcher you use, but the default Minecraft launcher keeps it inside the version folder.
• Launch the game and confirm the mod loads without errors.

On the server

Make sure the jar is already saved locally before you start.

• Sign in to your control panel and open the FTP file manager.
• Enter the `mods` directory.
• Click Upload and drag the jar into the upload area.

• Wait until the transfer hits 100%, then go back to the main panel and restart the server.
• Once it finishes loading, connect and verify everything is working.

Using the mod

CoFH Core has been around since 2013 and has crossed 105 million downloads on CurseForge. It supports Forge from Minecraft 1.6.4 up to 1.18.2, so most servers can run it without thinking. The mod itself is intentionally small. Its main role is to back the rest of the CoFH family, but the handful of commands it ships with are useful on their own.

Commands

The headline feature is the command set. `/cofh crafting` opens a crafting GUI on the spot, and `/cofh enderchest` opens your ender chest without needing the block in front of you. The full 1.18.2 command list is documented on the official CoFH wiki, and older versions had a different roster, so check the wiki for the version you are running before assuming a command exists.

Configuration

If you want to tighten permissions or tweak numeric behavior, the config lives in the world's `serverconfig` folder. The file is `cofh_core-server.toml`. Open it with the FTP editor and you will see categories for fishing, world, and command settings, each driven by simple numeric values. Fishing Exhaustion Amount for example accepts a range from 0.0 to 10.0, and EnderChest Permission Level defaults to the operator level so only ops can use the command.

Addons worth knowing

Most CoFH addons target Minecraft 1.12.2, so their usefulness depends entirely on which version your server runs. Quick rundown:

• CoFH World, control over world generation and ore distribution.
• CoFH Vanilla+ Satchels, simple bag items for carrying more loot.
• CoFH Vanilla+ Tools, extra weapons and tools alongside the vanilla set.
• CoFH Lib, backend library required by some of the older addons.
• CoFHTweaks, client-side visual and performance tweaks.

Wrapping up

The base mod is light, and that is the point. You install it because something else in your pack needs it, or because you want the convenience commands. The feature surface changes a fair bit between major Minecraft versions, so the experience on 1.18.2 will not match what you remember from 1.12.2. Either way, dropping the jar into your mods folder and restarting is all it takes to get going on a Forge server.