Floating along

On the 15th anniversary of Minecraft Alpha v1.0.10 first adding multiplayer support, out comes another Not So New release. This adds supports for Minecraft versions between 1.21.5 and 1.21.8, as well as some more edge case fixes, such as server resource packs which rely on quirks of ZipFile on newer Java versions.

As before, mods will be transformed wherever they use Java 9+ classes. Any mod which declares an explicit dependency on a Java version (e.g. java >= 21), such as the Example Mod, will need a manual dependency override to allow Not So New to do its work. This also includes Minecraft itself.

As an example, for just using Fabric API the following needs to be put in a file named fabric_loader_dependencies.json in the config folder:

{
	"version": 1,
	"overrides": {
		"minecraft": {
			"-depends": {
				"java": "Not any more"
			}
		},
		"fabric-api": {
			"-depends": {
				"java": "Not any more"
			}
		}
	}
}