Minecraft Forge 1.8, 1.7.10, 1.7.2 is an API providing additional modding capabilities. These capabilities are additional to provide support for the various mods using the Forge. As of nowadays, the forge contains. If you would like to installed the Minecraft Forge API / compatibilty layers. you simply have to be compelled to do that once for all mods requiring it. Note that bound mod might embrace Minecraft Forge in their code, within which case you don’t need to install the forge, however it’s no damage to add it on prime of the present installation