Alternatives to ForgeGradle

Blockbench

Blockbench suits people making low-poly 3D models, textures, and animations who want to work in a browser or on supported desktop and mobile platforms.

Fabric

Fabric suits Minecraft players who want to use mods and developers who need tools for creating them.

It suits Minecraft mod developers who want tools for source inspection, mod analysis, validation or version comparisons.

Loom suits Minecraft mod developers working across Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, or Quilt.

Gradle

Gradle suits developers automating builds for JVM, Android and other supported project types, from startups to large enterprises.

Eclipse IDE

It suits developers seeking a free desktop development platform, especially those working with Java or other areas covered by Eclipse packages.

Visual Studio Code

It suits developers who want an editor with built-in coding tools, broad language support, and optional AI agent workflows.

It suits developers publishing mod artifacts to CurseForge from Gradle projects, especially those using Fabric or NeoForge integrations.

Vineflower suits developers who need a command-line, library or IntelliJ Java decompiler on Linux, macOS, Windows or self-hosted systems.

Ravel suits developers working on Fabric mod source projects who need Java or Kotlin mapping migration.

MCreator suits Minecraft players, aspiring mod developers, educators, online classes and STEM workshops.

Quilt Loom is for Minecraft mod developers working with the Quilt loader and Gradle.

Retrom suits people who want to manage an emulation-focused game library across desktop and browser clients, including users who want server-synced save data.

Neo-Loom suits Minecraft mod developers building NeoForge or MinecraftForge projects with Gradle.