Sometimes you might not want to upload your pack to CurseForge as a project, and you may just want to share it with your friends. Alternatively, you may have downloaded a pack either via CurseForge or from a private location for a team server or a friend's server. This article will help you with both.
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Exporting a modpack
Exporting is as easy as clicking the Minecraft Tab in the CurseForge Client clicking the modpack profile that you want to export, and clicking the context menu in the top right corner. From this menu, select "Export Profile":
Clicking this will bring up the following window. Generally, if you are just sharing your modpack without worlds, you should only check config and mods. Clicking "Okay" here will ask you where you want to save to and then package your modpack up into an easily importable format for your friends or family. Once you have the ZIP, you can share this with whomever! If you have a private server, feel free to share this profile with your players! You can use any number of free file sharing applications to easily provide other users easy access to this ZIP.
Exporting a Vanilla Profile
Exporting a vanilla profile works just like any other profile, however these projects are currently not supported in the Project Creation process, meaning you cannot upload it to the website like Forge or Fabric projects.
That being said, you can still export it so that you can easily share it with your friends, YouTube followers or your Aunt Suzy.
Importing an exported modpack
If this is something you would like to share with the world, you can always follow our project tutorials and modpack submission tutorial to place it on CurseForge as a project. Obviously, this article is for if that's not something you want, or if it just seems like too much trouble. No problem! Importing is even easier than exporting.
Click the 'Import' button:
Navigate to the Zip file that contains the profile you would like to import. This will automagically install that modpack as a new profile under the Minecraft tab.
'Invalid file' error
If your attempt to import a modpack fails and the 'Invalid file' error is shown to you, please consider the following:
- The feature works only with Zip files.
- The feature work only with modpacks/custom profile. Other content types (individual mods, worlds, data packs, etc.) cannot be imported this way.
- The feature works only with modpacks/custom profiles that match CurseForge's export structure. If the modpack was exported or packed in a different manner, the app will not be able to import it.
If the file you are trying to import fulfills these conditions but you are still getting this error, please repair the installation, and try to import the file again:
For any further help, please reach out to us with your app logs and we'll do out best to help!