What is this?
Abstraction Layer (but not really)™ for Blay's multiplatform mods. This is a library mod, it does not add anything on its own.
I do not recommend other modders to build on this as I will ruthlessly break backwards-compatibility as needed for my mods.
This is a trial run for supporting both Forge and Fabric on my mods, so currently only Waystones depends on this.
If supporting both platforms ends up being viable the rest of my mods will follow.
Note that this is not a magic solution for running Forge and Fabric mods together, it's only a library my mods will depend on to make publishing for both versions easier.
Why is this?
I can't just switch to Fabric and abandon all existing Forge users, but I also don't want to miss a Fabric train if there is one.
Trying a port for fun showed that most of the platform-specific things can easily be hidden away from the actual mod code which doesn't have to care about modloader backends, which should hopefully make it much easier to support both mods at the same time.
There's other libraries that do the same thing, but given the amount of mods I maintain I don't want to put all my money on one boat only to deal with headaches once those other mods stop being supported.
How does this?
It just wraps all platform-specific code behind a unified API (in the simplest way possible, there is no magic involved) and provides superclasses to use in cases where platform-specific methods are added to Vanilla classes.
It also adds a simple network system (similar to Forge's) and a config layer with sync support. For Fabric it depends on Cloth Config, for Forge it will use the default Forge config system in the backend.
Who is this?
Hi, I'm Blay and my Twitter is at @BlayTheNinth.
Game keeps crashing whenever I attempt to use this API in combination with the Neutrino mod. I'm not getting any error logs. just a code 0 on the launcher. Any idea what may be happening?
apparently i cannot find certain file that to make this work...
am i blind?
In reply to JFisherGamerDEAF:
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/cloth-config
Hi, latest Crafting Tweaks requires Balm 1.9 but that version isnt here, can you tell me when that version will be posted?
In reply to sevenboulevard:
Seems CurseForge was having issues approving the file, I've reuploaded it
In reply to BlayTheNinth:
Thanks!
1.16 pls
I'm so glad that you want to stick to Forge. I'm on noone's side in Forge-Fabric fight, but this rejection of Forge by some modders is really saddening. And as a lot of great projects stays on Forge forever (be it because they feel better there or just don't update it anymore), it's a shame a lot of Fabric modders create exclusive creations and banish any Forge ports, even if someone would love to port all by himself. Such sad "arrogance of old-school veterans" versus "arrogance of newer and higher quality" :/
In reply to toma400:
It's a lot of effort to maintain both, it's not us banishing Forge ports, we merely don't want to put in the effort to support two modloaders when our mods work just fine on one. We have lives too, you know. :)
In reply to FarlanderCraft:
I mean, yeah, I know! I was saying about people writing things like "I do not want Forge port nor anyone to make one". I understand fully that maintaining two APIs is a lot of work (I'm a modder too, you know :D), but if you reject any community effort, this is just sad. I mean... if people are interested in porting your mod for free and with all respect to your own work, why prohibiting that? If anyone trusted would offer porting my mod to 1.7.10 or Fabric, I'd gladly give the permission, since I know how important for people is to have mods on various versions and APIs.
I don't want to call out any mods' names to make them bad fame, but I really see such answers sometimes, so it's not that it's my imagination. I really wish it was.
In reply to toma400:
I don't reject community effort. I make sure people are allowed to make ports. Heck, most of my projects on CurseForge are backports. I agree with you about that being disgusting, but I haven't seen any Fabric developers reject community effort. Perhaps I just never noticed :/ .
Anyways sorry I misunderstood, and thank you for clearing it up. :)
I found out about this library mod because of 1.17 Waystones and if I read correctly, this seems really cool.
Also, thank you very much for trying to support both Forge and Fabric, as it seems rather complicated.
In reply to AbsorbingSafe11:
Note that this is only something for my mods in particular, it's no magic solution for running Forge and Fabric mods at the same time.
In reply to BlayTheNinth:
I was thinking that (thanks for confirming) but I like all of the mods you make and another library mod has never been an issue for me.
Also, I asked a similar thing when i first saw Architectury, but that mod isn't as good for a modder who makes many good mods, like yourself.
(I may have spelt the mod as well)
Additionally, I was hoping on Patchwork or whatever it was called for the magic Forge and Fabric solution. (been hoping for a while now)
In reply to BlayTheNinth:
If only.
Imagine a combination of forges capabilities, and fabrics performance.