How To Download & Install Fabric Mods for Minecraft 1.21.5

Fabric mods are one of the best ways to add mods to Minecraft. In this video, we show you exactly how to download and install Fabric 1.21.5 in Minecraft in order to play any Fabric mods you want. From where to download the Fabric mod loader and get mods to how to install Fabric 1.21.5 and start playing Minecraft with Fabric mods in 1.21.5, it’s all covered in this video!

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About this video: This video is our complete guide on how to download and install Fabric 1.21.5 in Minecraft. Why would you want to get Fabric mods in Minecraft 1.21.5? Well, Fabric is one of the most popular Minecraft mod loaders meaning some of the most popular Minecraft mods like Sodium, Iris Shaders, WorldEdit, the Replay Mod, the Essential mod, and thousands of others support Fabric as their primary mod loader. Thus, you will need to know how to get Fabric and the Fabric API to play these mods in 1.21.5. Let’s get started!

First things first, there is a link in the description above to download Fabric 1.21.5. This will take you to our complete text guide on getting Fabric. Once you are there, click the “Download Fabric” button to go to the official Fabric download page. On this page, click the “Download Universal Jar” link to download the Fabric Installer .jar file.

Right-click on the Fabric Installer file you downloaded, select Open With and Java. If you don’t have Java, you will need to get Java from the description above. With the Fabric Installer open, select the 1.21.5 Minecraft version. Make sure “Create Profile” is checked, and click “Install”. Fabric 1.21.5 will now be installed in Minecraft.

The only reason you would have issues installing Fabric 1.21.5 is that if Minecraft or the Minecraft Launcher are open, make sure both of those are closed, or if you have never play Minecraft 1.21.5 before.

With Fabric 1.21.5 downloaded and installed, we can now move on to how to get Fabric Mods for Minecraft 1.21.5. There are links to CurseForge and Modrinth in the description above. This is where most Minecraft 1.21.5 should be downloaded from. When getting mods, make sure they are for the 1.21.5 version of Minecraft. It is also worth checking to make sure that there are no required dependency mods. This is often the reason that Minecraft mods won’t work after they are installed. We show you how to find these in the video.

A dependency mods that Fabric mods often need is the Fabric API for Minecraft 1.21.5. There is a link to download the FabricAPI in the description above.

With your Minecraft mods downloaded, we can now install them for Fabric 1.21.5. This is done by opening up the Minecraft Launcher and clicking on “Installations” at the top.

Find your Fabric installation, hover over it, and click the folder icon that appears. This will open your .minecraft folder. You will have a “mods” folder. If not, just create one! Open your mods folder and add any Fabric mods you want to install into this mods folder. It’s that easy to install Fabric mods in Minecraft 1.21.5!

At this point, all we need to do is go back to the Minecraft Launcher and play Minecraft using your 1.21.5 Fabric installation. When your are in game, all of your Fabric mods will be active.

Congratulations! You now know how to download and install Fabric mods for Minecraft 1.21.5j. If you have any questions about how to install Fabric 1.21.5, let us know in the comments. We will try our best to help you out.

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[TheBreakdownXYZ]

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[Konzaiii]

dudes chanel is the channel i visit every few months to install optifine 😭

[nimyron]

Thanks man I just got back into minecraft after probably a decade and that was clear and quick, just perfect.

[starrz]

best minecraft channel of all time. very underrated good job 👏🏽

[elanti-merluzo]

I visit this channel every few months to reinstall fabric lol

[Traxxmaxx]

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[simplyyGT]

holy moly the most useful thing ever defo a sub

[zdx]

Can you make an updated tutorial on adding resource packs to your Minecraft server?

[coconutshook]

ohh i forgot the fabric api... no wonder mine wouldnt load 💀 im a dummy. thanks man!

[yung_davi]

Do i have to update all of my mods whenever a minor update comes out?

[Lebron_james_raymone_sr]

when i try do download for exampel waystones the three buttons and filter menu doesnt pop up

[zipz]

What should I open the fabric installer with?? Notepad?

[okbutwhatif]

Tried installing a mod with that. Got all the dependencies right (just the API) yet it still doesn't work

[AidanDwyer-oswn]

did all the steps but now its a balck screen when i open the game but i can hear the sounds what do i do?

[kate_isawesome]

Where is 1.21.5 of Balm? Since so annoying when it goes up to 1.21.4.

[Untoldkite]

do you have a tutorial about using .mrpack files for mods?

[mawstorm]

How do I keep mod versions from various game versions if I go back and fourth between installations? (mods pertaining to specific installations)?

[Hazzadad]

So what do you do if it says uncaught exception in thread “main”

[srlsigns]

Anyone know why some datapacks work on realms and others don’t? I’m trying to get Botanical Pots from Modrinth but it won’t work on realms. I’ve tried the jar file through fabric and the datapack version.

[jsjdjdudidjdndjdjsjs]

so i tried reinstalling java and using the fix, restarting my computer and everything else, but the fabric installer says "could not create the java virtual machine", is there a solution to this problem?