IndustrialCraft not being recognized as a mod. [1.7.10]

    Industrialcraft isn't actually loaded into the game, I found this in the forge log:


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    [17:34:49] [Client thread/INFO] [FML/]: FML has found a non-mod file industrialcraft-2-2.2.827-experimental-api.jar in your mods directory. It will now be injected into your classpath. This could severe stability issues, it should be removed if possible.


    possibly this is related to a missing mcmod.info file, but its happening in older versions of forge as well.


    If relevant, I recently pulled Gregtech out of the mods folder.

    You downloaded the wrong file, and it's missing a lot more than just mcmod.info. You want the third file in the list of "successful artifacts" from Jenkins, that doesn't have the "-api" or "-dev" suffix before the ".jar" extension.