Awesome Fabric

A curated list of awesome Fabric resources, libraries and tools - WIP and accepting contributions!

Fabric is a mod loader for the voxel game Minecraft.

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Contents 🔠

Category		Description
📖	Resource	Learning resources for modding in Fabric.
🛠️	Development	Mods that help during the development of other mods.
💾	Library	Mods whose functionality is to be used inside other mods.
🧰	Tool	External programs that generally help with Fabric mod/modpack development.

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Resource 📖

• Fabric Wiki - The official Fabric wiki with a lot of tips and tutorials. CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

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Development 🛠️

Mixins

• MixinTrace - Adds a list of related mixins to crash reports. MIT

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Library 💾

Agnostic (Common & Multi-Feature)

• Fabric API - Essential hooks and patches for modding with Fabric. (Wiki) Apache-2.0
• Mesh - A modding library with various utilities, such as auto-registration of items and blocks, or crafting recipe generation. (Wiki) LGPL-3.0-only
• oωo (owo-lib) - A general utility library for content-focused modding on Fabric. (Wiki) MIT

Audio

• Sound Categories - Allows mods to add more sound categories, and modifies the Minecraft sound settings menu to fit as many categories as required. (Wiki) Apache-2.0

Chat

• AdvancedChatCore - The base mod of all AdvancedChat modules and features, presenting an API to achieve many different functionalities related to the Minecraft chat. (Wiki) MPL-2.0

Configs

• AutoConfig - A full-fledged, annotation-based configuration library. (Wiki) Apache-2.0
• Cloth Config - A client side API for creating configuration screens. (Wiki) Unlicense

Data Parsing, Loading & Generation

• Bow Tie - Data loading interceptor that enables the use of Hjson, YAML, XML and more instead of JSON. Apache-2.0
• ARRP - Advanced Runtime Resource Packs (for Fabric). (Wiki) MPL-2.0

Documentation

• Patchouli - A mod that aims to provide easy to implement, data-driven documentation for minecraft modders and modpack makers alike. (Wiki) BY-NC-SA 3.0

Entities

Disguising & Impersonation

• DisguiseLib - A (server-side) library for disguising entities in Minecraft. MIT
• Impersonate - Allows players to take on the name and appearance of other players. (Wiki) LGPL-3.0-only

Villagers & Trading

• SimpleJsonVillagerTrades - A small jar-in-jar-able or standalone library to modify/add merchant trades via datapacks. (Wiki) CC0

Piglins & Bartering

• Piglib - Adds item tags for various Piglin related things that Mojang were too silly to add themselves! (Wiki) LGPL-3.0-only

Attributes

• Air Strafing Attribute - Adds an attribute for the flyingSpeed variable so multiple mods can safely modify the air strafing speed of entities. (Wiki) MIT

Generation

• Terraformers' Shapes - A context independent library for generating voxel shapes using mathematical equations. (Wiki) MIT

GUIs & Menus

• SpruceUI - Utilities for creating GUIs. MIT
• Main Menu Credits - Adds a way of adding information to the user's title screen. (Wiki) LGPL-3.0-only

Input Methods & Keybinds

• Amecs' API - Allows to define modifier keys (control, shift, alt) for keybindings. Apache-2.0
• No More Useless Keys - NMUK - Allows you to specify an arbitrary amount of alternative key combinations for key bindings. Apache-2.0

Inventory & Transfer Systems

• Trinkets - A data-driven accessory mod that adds a slot group and slot system to Minecraft. (Wiki) MIT
• LibBlockAttributes - (Wiki) MPL-2.0

Items & Equippables

• Fabric Shield Lib - Library mod for easily adding shields, and shield enchantments into the game. (Wiki) LGPL-2.1

Kotlin

• Fabrik - An API for using FabricMC with Kotlin. It is the bridge between Minecraft and common Kotlin language features, libraries, DSLs and more. (Wiki) GPL-3.0-only

Low-Level Manipulation (E.g. Bytecode)

• Fabric-ASM - Utilities for manipulating Java byte code and extending enums. MPL-2.0

Miscellaneous & Humor

• owo - Zuzak's JS furry-speak transformation library ported to a Java library.

Multipart

• LibMultiPart - Adds support for multiple "parts" (such as pipes, facades, wires, etc) in a single block. (Wiki) MPLv2.0

Networking & Packets

• LibNetworkStack - Adds a networking layer for mods to communicate data more easily. (Wiki) MPL-2.0

Recipes & Crafting

• Nbt Crafting - JSON-driven nbt data in recipes and remainders as well as brewing recipes and a lot more. (Wiki) Apache-2.0
• Push To Craft - Allows to provide alternatives for recipe ingredients in a general fashion. MIT
• Smart Recipes - Extends the recipe format with conditions. (Wiki) MIT

Visual, Models, Rendering & Animation

• GeckoLib - Forward kinematic gui-based animation engine. (Wiki) LGPL-3.0-only
• LibZoomer - A library for Minecraft 1.17+ that allows other mods to zoom easily while being able to customize it for their own needs. MIT
• JsonEM - Library for modders, resource pack makers, and modpack makers to create and edit entity models with JSON. (Wiki) MIT
• JSON Model Extensions - Adds support for FREX Rendering API features to Minecraft JSON model loading. (Wiki) LGPL-3
• FREX - A rendering API for Minecraft mods to create content that wouldn't normally be possible. (Wiki) LGPL-3.0-only
• UltralightFabric - A HTML renderer for Fabric. (Wiki) LGPL-3.0-only
• Renderer - An easy-to-use rendering library for modern FabricMC. (Wiki) BSD-3-Clause

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Tool 🧰

Conversion

• Entity Model Remapper - An online tool to convert entity models between Yarn and MCP mappings. MIT

Inspection

• mod_jar_inspector - Allows you to inspect mods in a directory like listing all jar-in-jars or all mixins. GPL-3.0-only

Generators

• GeneratorFabricMod - Prompts for various information and outputs a skeleton mod, ready to be modified. Apache-2.0

Versioning

• GIUP - Allows to maintain mods that are spread across branches for different MC versions. Apache-2.0

IDE Plugins

• Minecraft Development for IntelliJ - Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that helps with mixins, fabric.mod.json files and contains a lot of other small tweaks. (Wiki) MIT

Mappings

• yarn-cli - CLI to look up yarn/intermediary mappings. MIT