Environment Setup

If you're a dev, and you'd like to get access to this mod's methods to add hydration to your items or make any other tweak, here's one way to do it.

Modifying the build.gradle

I still have no clue what goes on inside that file, but by using CurseMaven you can get this mod as one of the libs.

Add CurseMaven's repository to your repositories

repositories {
     maven {
        url "https://cursemaven.com"
        content {
            includeGroup "curse.maven"
        }
    }
}

and add this mod to your dependencies

dependencies {
    implementation fg.deobf("curse.maven:thirst-was-reclaimed-884742:file-id")
}

The first number there is CurseForge's mod id, and you need to change file-id to the number at the end of the url https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/thirst-was-reclaimed/files/..., which corresponds to CurseForge's page of the file you want to use.

Making the changes show up

You will need to re-generate your preferred IDE's runs, so for example run gradlew genIntellijRuns if you're using IntelliJ IDEA.