Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25834915-20180114022140/@comment-25841881-20180114034319

Forge is entirely unrelated to the launcher, by the way. Forge is the intermediary between Minecraft's code and your mod's code. You can make mods that aren't Forge mods, but Forge makes it a whole lot easier.. And at this point, it'd be entirely rewriting the mod. And a separate launcher avoiding verification problems would be because it skipped necessary security steps, and as such would be much less legal. Autoupdating would be decently easy with a unique launcher.