Board Thread:LotR Mod Technical Support/@comment-30629788-20161129002105/@comment-30638321-20161130021900

Unfortunately not. I'm really kicking myself. I was too confident and anxious to get the update done. Ugh.

Given we are where we are. I don't understand how renaming rather than deleting would cause issues. I assume that Forge would have been looking for jar files for the mods. Is the implication her that Forge ignores file extensions and reads all files in the mods directory?

I had several other mods that were causing problems when we were first attempting to bring up the server so I removed them by renaming them. Apple-Core was one for example. Rather than deleting it, I simply renamed it to old and started the server and the server would no longer attempt to load that mod.

A couple of issues here. Perhaps in our process of bringing up the server, having a crash, identifying the offending mod and removing then restarting the server repeatedly could have laid the groundwork for the corruption of the world we are seeing now.