So basically, I am starting a server for some friends and I, we want to play with a bunch of mods, we revised the mods and saw that the ones that had dependencies had their dependencies downloaded, although we downloaded all dependencies, something really weird happens, it says that forge requires a dependency, which is forge.
[07Jul2022 22:45:31.592] [main/INFO] [cpw.mods.modlauncher.Launcher/MODLAUNCHER]: ModLauncher running: args [--launchTarget, forgeserver, --fml.forgeVersion, 40.1.0, --fml.mcVersion, 1.18.2, --fml.forgeGroup, net.minecraftforge, --fml.mcpVersion, 20220404.173914, nogui]
[07Jul2022 22:45:31.599] [main/INFO] [cpw.mods.modlauncher.Launcher/MODLAUNCHER]: ModLauncher 9.1.3+9.1.3+main.9b69c82a starting: java version 17.0.2 by Oracle Corporation
[07Jul2022 22:45:31.752] [main/INFO] [mixin/]: SpongePowered MIXIN Subsystem Version=0.8.5 Source=union:/server/libraries/org/spongepowered/mixin/0.8.5/mixin-0.8.5.jar%2314!/ Service=ModLauncher Env=SERVER
[07Jul2022 22:45:32.307] [main/ERROR] [net.minecraftforge.fml.loading.ModSorter/LOADING]: Missing mandatory dependencies: forge, forge
This is what happens. Please help.