The recommended way of installing the mod is through MultiMC. Instructions for doing so can be found here.
-Dawn
This represents the "official" method of mod installation. The intent here is to have a method that doesn't rely on third party utilities and such (which I realize can make this task easier), and leave such alternate approaches to other members of the community to explain in their own separate threads.
The method below is admittedly clunky, and if you're having trouble with it I'd strongly recommend looking into the aforementioned alternative installation methods.
[****** Installation Instructions ******]
1) Navigate to your Minecraft install directory and open the file named "options.txt" in a text editor. Delete the line that reads "lang:en_us" (or whatever language is referred to after "lang:"). This prevents a crash when loading older version of the game.
2) Start the Minecraft launcher, click on the 3-line menu button to the top right to display additional options, then click "Launch Options", then "Add New". Give your configuration an appropriate name (eg. "Minecraft_1_5_2). In the "Name" box, select "release 1.5.2" in the "Version" drop down, and click "save" This will create a vanilla configuration of the version of Minecraft BTW is based upon (1.5.2).
3) Click on "News", make sure the "Play" button has your new profile selected, and play the game with this new configuration at least once to force Minecraft to download 1.5.2. Simply clicking "Play" in the launcher and waiting until the main menu is reached before quitting out is sufficient.
4) Exit the game and launcher, and make sure Minecraft is not running.
5) Navigate to your Minecraft install directory, and within it you'll find a folder called "versions". Within "versions" make a copy of the directory called "1.5.2", and rename this copy to something easy to identify like "BetterThanWolves".
6) Open your new directory, and rename both the files to match the name you used above (eg. "BetterThanWolves.jar" and "BetterThanWolves.json"), making sure to preserve the file types (.jar & .json).
7) Open the .json file with a text editor, and change the part that reads '"id": "1.5.2"' to match whatever name you've chosen (eg. '"id": "BetterThanWolves"').
8) Still in the .json file, find the section labeled "downloads" that looks something like this (specific details may vary):
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"downloads": {
"client": {
"sha1": "465378c9dc2f779ae1d6e8046ebc46fb53a57968",
"size": 5564661,
"url": "https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/465378c9dc2f779ae1d6e8046ebc46fb53a57968/client.jar"
},
"server": {
"sha1": "f9ae3f651319151ce99a0bfad6b34fa16eb6775f",
"size": 2360903,
"url": "https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/f9ae3f651319151ce99a0bfad6b34fa16eb6775f/server.jar"
},
"windows_server": {
"sha1": "49fded489aae76e012048c3c81dcc323384ef781",
"size": 2542151,
"url": "https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/49fded489aae76e012048c3c81dcc323384ef781/windows_server.exe"
}
},
9) Open the .jar file (eg. BetterThanWolves.jar) with Winrar or other program.
10) Delete the META-INF folder within the .jar file.
11) Copy all the files and folders in this mod's MINECRAFT-JAR folder into your .jar file (overwriting any existing files) and then close the .jar file.
12) Start the Minecraft launcher, go into Launch Options, and add a new configuration using whatever name you like. In the "version" box, select the new version you've created (eg. "release BetterThanWolves") and save it.
13) Launch the game with this new configuration whenever you want to play BTW, and marvel and the wonderment of it all!
Note, that if you're reinstalling a new version of the mod on top of an already installed version of Better Than Wolves, the only step required is to copy the mod files into your .jar as per step 11 above.
[**** Troubleshooting ****]
-After running newer versions of Minecraft, your options.txt file in your Minecraft directory may be left in a state that causes older versions of Minecraft to crash. If you are experiencing crashes on startup, try opening "options.txt" in a text editor and delete the line that reads "lang:en_us" (or whatever language is referred to after "lang:"). If that doesn't work, deleting options.txt entirely might do so.
-If you have not been running older versions of Minecraft in the past, you may find that you aren't getting any sound due to Mojang recently making the old sound files unavailable for download. Unfortunately, you will need to search online for solutions to this problem (it is common to all old versions of MC, not just Better Than Wolves installs), as it is currently beyond the scope of the mod to resolve it.
-For Mac Users: Note that the default file management utility on Macs tends to overwrite directories during install rather than merge them appropriately. As a result, you will either need to manually copy over the files in each subdirectory, or use a third-party utility to perform the above process. Failing to do so will likely result in the game crashing on startup.
[****** Server Installation Instructions ******]
1) Make sure minecraft is not running.
2) Open your minecraft_server.jar with Winrar or other program
3) Copy all the files and folders in this mod's MINECRAFT_SERVER-JAR folder into your minecraft_server.jar (overwriting any existing files).
4) Optionally, copy the mod's config file into the same directory that contains minecraft_server.jar.
5) Obviously, clients connecting to your server will need to have BTW installed.
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8) Receive heaps of praise from the players on your server for installing BTW, and laugh maniacally as you ban dissenters.