quilt-loader

The loader for mods under Quilt. It provides mod loading facilities and useful abstractions for other mods to use.

License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

The license.json included in loader to generate SPDX license instances is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (SPDX License ID CC-BY-3.0) from SPDX.

Contributing

When adding NEW classes (that you wrote yourself) they should use the quilt-only header file (/codeformat/HEADER) When adding classes that contain code from fabric-loader they should use the modified header file (/codeformat/FABRIC_MODIFIED_HEADER)

All files are expected to be encoded in UTF-8.

Source folder layout

• src/main/java contains all "normal" loader source code.
  • org.quiltmc.loader.api is considered to be quilt-loader's public api - mods can freely make use of any of these classes and interfaces
  • org.quiltmc.loader.impl contains quilt-loader internals - these can change at any time, and so mods should NOT use any of these.
• src/test/java contains test sources - these aren't built into the main jar file.
• src/fabric/api/java contains all fabric-loader apis (Non deprecated apis that any fabric mods can use)
  • Some classes in this package aren't deprecated - this generally means quilt-loader doesn't have a replacement for it yet.
• src/fabric/impl/java contains fabric-loader internal code, but is used by mods (even though this is discouraged).
• src/fabric/legacy/java contains fabric-loader internal deprecated code, but is used by mods (even though this is discouraged). Unlike fabric/impl this is for classes and interfaces that fabric-loader itself has deprecated.

When adding fabric internal compatibility classes they should always be annotated with @Deprecated, to discourage quilt mods from accidently using them.