Why are there four now? It’s tedious enough finding mods comparable with your chosen version of Minecraft. Now we have to take what will soon be dozens of different mod launchers into account.
Is Fabric a lot easier for modders to work with? If so, that’s great. But why the others? Can’t they just work together to improve Fabric instead…
by The-Determined-One
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Forge is the oldest and the best in terms of mod library
Fabric is easy to code for and lightweight, good for qol client side mods. It’s also semi new iirc
Quilt is Idfk never used it
Neoforge was made because the owner of forge is an ass or smth I don’t follow the lore
Also as a 1.12 player I don’t have to worry about it
https://xkcd.com/927/
neoforge is a forge replacement rather than a new one. at least thats how it seems to be turning out. quilt idfk why it exists and fabric is the (neo)forge rival. so basically only fabric and neoforge are relevant for versions after 1.20 i think with some exceptions requiring quilt
Quilt is the best core in my opinion
Neoforge is just forge for newer versions because the owner was an asshole. Basically everyone from the old forge team except the owner is now in charge of neoforge so that’s that. (Or at least that’s what I know I’m not a lore master)
And quilt is… Idk has anybody ever used it.
> Why are there four now?
Forge was the only mod loader for years, it stagnated and Fabric was created because of that. In turn Forge started improving (for example, 1.16.5+ loads mods way faster than 1.12.2 and older)
Quilt was created essentially because of Discord drama, but nowadays it lacks developers IIRC and barely anyone uses it anymore (not that it had many users in the first place). Mods which became Quilt-only either became unpopular (eg. LambdaBetterGrass) or got Fabric support back (eg. Effective)
NeoForge was created after all but one of the Forge devs left the team. It’s meant to be the replacement for Forge going forward, and many of the popular (previously Forge-only) mods are moving to it.
You can ignore Quilt.
NeoForge is basically just Forge for above 1.20.1. You just use Forge on ~1.20.1 and NeoForge on 1.20.4~. Nothing to care more than that.
It’s not really proliferation like you’re worried about.
NeoForge is going to totally replace Forge, moving forward. The reasons are varied, but IIRC they come down to “the guy who runs Forge is really, really hard to work with and contributors got sick of it”.
Quilt was formed because the Fabric leadership was allowing/possibly endorsing some transphobic behavior on Discord, if I remember correctly. Quilt is therefore just Fabric without bigot-baggage.
there’s still basically only 2 choices for any given version
It’s still Forge x Fabric
NeoForge has all but 1 of the Forge devs and replaces forge for versions above 1.20.1
Quilt is basically irrelevant
someone didnt like all the current options so decided to make something that suited all their needs