Journey Mode Fabric v1.0.0 - Initial Release

Release Date: October 31, 2025

🎉 Welcome to Journey Mode for Fabric!

This is the first Fabric release of Journey Mode, bringing all the features you love to the Fabric mod loader!

🏗️ Multi-Loader Architecture

Journey Mode now supports both Fabric and NeoForge thanks to our multi-loader architecture:

• ✅ 90% shared code - Same features across all loaders
• ✅ Common module - Platform-agnostic game logic
• ✅ Fabric module - Thin wrapper for Fabric-specific APIs

📦 Compatibility

Supported Versions

• ✅ Minecraft: All 1.21.x versions (1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, and future 1.21.x)
• ✅ Fabric Loader: 0.15.0 or later
• ✅ Fabric API: Required
• ✅ Java: 21 or later

Version Range

• Minecraft: >=1.21 <1.22 - Works with all 1.21.x versions
• Single JAR - One file works across the entire 1.21 family!

🎮 Features

All features from the NeoForge version are included:

Core Gameplay

• 📦 Item Collection Tracking - Deposit items to unlock them permanently
• ♾️ Infinite Access - Retrieve unlimited copies of unlocked items
• 🎯 Smart Thresholds - Dynamic unlock requirements based on recipe complexity
• 💾 Persistent Storage - Your progress is saved with your player data

Journey Mode Toggle

• /journeymode on|off - Enable or disable Journey Mode per player
• Default: Enabled for all players
• Disabled players cannot open GUI or deposit items

Configuration System

• 📝 JSON-based configs in config/Journey Mode/
• blacklist.json - Prevent specific items from being unlockable
• custom_thresholds.json - Override unlock requirements per item
• Hot-reload support without server restart

Dynamic Thresholds

• Stack size 1 items (tools, armor): 1 item required
• Raw materials (ores, wood): Full stack (64) required
• Crafted items (Depth 1): 50% of stack (32) required
• Crafted items (Depth 2): 25% of stack (16) required
• Complex items (Depth 3+): Only 1 item required
• Recipe depth automatically calculated

User Interface

• 🎨 Dual-Tab GUI - Deposit tab and Journey tab
• 🔍 Search Function - Quickly find unlocked items
• 📊 Smart Sorting - Items sorted by unlock time
• ⌨️ Configurable Keybind - Press J to open (rebindable)
• 🖱️ Click to Retrieve:
  • Left-click: Get 1 item
  • Shift + Left-click: Get 64 items

📦 Installation

Requirements

1. Minecraft 1.21.x (any version from 1.21 to 1.21.x)
2. Fabric Loader 0.15.0+ - Download
3. Fabric API - Download
4. Java 21+ - Usually included with Minecraft

Steps

1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 1.21.x
2. Download Fabric API and place in mods folder
3. Download journeymode_fab-1.0.0.jar from this release
4. Place both JARs in your .minecraft/mods folder
5. Launch Minecraft with Fabric

🆚 Fabric vs NeoForge

Both versions have identical features thanks to the shared common module:

• Same gameplay mechanics
• Same configuration system
• Same UI and controls
• Same save data format

Choose based on your preferred mod loader!

🔧 Technical Details

Architecture

• Common Module: Pure Java code with Gson serialization
• Fabric Module: Uses Fabric API for loader integration
• Service Loader Pattern: Automatic platform detection

Implementation

• Fabric Lifecycle Events for mod initialization
• Fabric Networking API for client-server communication
• Fabric Screen API for GUI rendering
• Component-based player data storage

Dependencies

• Fabric Loader: >=0.15.0
• Fabric API: Required (any recent version)
• Common module: Bundled in JAR

📝 Known Limitations

This is the initial Fabric release. Future updates may include:

• Full parity testing with NeoForge version
• Fabric-specific optimizations
• Additional Fabric integrations

🚀 What's Next?

Future Plans:

• Fabric 1.20.1, 1.19.2, 1.16.5 support
• Forge ports for older versions
• Cross-loader compatibility testing

📋 Full Changelog

Added

• ✅ Initial Fabric port for 1.21.x family
• ✅ All features from NeoForge version
• ✅ Fabric-specific implementations for networking, GUI, events
• ✅ Fabric API integration
• ✅ Multi-version support (1.21 to 1.21.x)

Technical

• Fabric Loader 0.16.5 target
• Fabric API 0.105.0+1.21.1
• Shared common module with NeoForge version
• Minimal Fabric-specific code (10% of total codebase)

Questions or issues? Report them on the GitHub Issues page!

Want to try NeoForge instead? Check out Journey Mode v1.6.0 for NeoForge