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Forge Community Wiki

The Forge Community Wiki exists so that the community can:

• collectively keep track of major changes and updates to Forge and Vanilla code;
• create and edit articles with in-depth explanations about a variety of Forge-related subjects; and
• contribute example code and tutorials for both simple and difficult concepts.

This wiki is editable by any registered user with an account. This is to allow tracking of harmful edits, but isn't imposing any annoying limits. We welcome any edit, however small. Join the Discord to discuss changes and edits to the wiki with others and the staff.

This wiki hosts information for the following Minecraft versions:

• 1.19
• 1.18
• 1.17
• 1.16

Please read the wiki policy before editing!

The current Latest version is 1.17.1. The current Long Term Support (LTS) version is 1.16.5. 1.15.2 is currently in grace/LTS.

Beginner Topics

• Getting Started
• Proper Mod Structuring
• The Debug Profiler
• Version Checker

Common Concepts

• Understanding Sides
• Understanding Events
• Registration
• Internationalization

Forge Conventions

• Semantic Versioning
• Stages of Modloading

Resources and Data

• Introduction
• Recipes
• Tags

Blocks

• Creating Blocks
• BlockStates
• Block Interactions

Items

• Making Items
• Making Tools
• ItemStackTileEntityRenderer

Data Generation

• Introduction
• Recipes
• Tags
• Loot Tables
• Localization
• BlockStates and Models

Tile Entities

• Introduction
• Tile Entity Renderer

Models

• Introduction
• Model JSONs
• BlockState JSONs
• Dynamically Colored Textures
• Item Properties

Handling Information

• Introduction
• Named Binary Tag (NBT)
• Using PacketBuffer
• Sending and Receiving Packets
• Using SimpleChannel
• Networking with Entities
• Using DynamicOps
• Using Codecs

Data Storage

• Understanding Capabilities
• Attaching Capabilities
• Saved Data

Game Effects

• Mob Effects
• Potions
• Particles
• Sounds

Events

• Understanding Events
• Entity Events

Others

• Dependencies
• Dynamic Loot Modification
• Text Components and Translation Keys
• Key Mappings
• Access Transformers
• Toolchain

Recipes

• Recipes
• Custom Recipe Types
• Datageneration