Architectury Loom vs ForgeGradle
Architectury Loom
github.comForgeGradle
docs.minecraftforge.netSide by side
| Figure | Architectury Loom | ForgeGradle |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Mod Development Tools | 8.5 (#5) | 7.8 (#14) |
| IDE support | The documentation lists IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio Code as supported IDEs; other IDEs are not tested or supported. | The guide provides commands to generate run configurations for Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and Visual Studio Code. |
| License | The repository includes an MIT License. | The ForgeGradle GitHub repository identifies its license as LGPL-2.1. |
| Mappings | The documentation says Loom supports Yarn or Official Mojang mappings, and also supports MCP. | ForgeGradle lets users choose a human-readable mapping set and converts the mod JAR to SRG mappings for production with a reobf task. |
| Purpose | Architectury Loom is a Gradle plugin for setting up environments for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and Quilt Minecraft modding. | ForgeGradle is a Gradle plugin and Minecraft mod development framework used by Forge and FML. |
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In their own words
Architectury Loom
Architectury Loom is a free Gradle plugin for setting up development environments for Minecraft mods. It supports Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and Quilt, and is described as a ForgeGradle replacement based on FabricMC Loom. Developers can choose Yarn, Official Mojang Mappings, or MCP mappings. Loom uses Fernflower and CFR to generate source code with comments. The documented IDE support is IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio Code; other IDEs are not tested or supported. The project requires Gradle 8.1 or newer and runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Its documentation labels the project experimental and says issues may arise, with reports directed to the issue tracker. The repository uses the MIT license, and community discussion is available through Discord. The latest listed release is 1.17, which includes an API for converting access wideners to access transformers for Forge and NeoForge.
ForgeGradle
ForgeGradle is a free Gradle plugin and Minecraft mod development framework used with Forge and FML. Its documentation focuses on setting up a mod development environment, not teaching Java, Groovy or Gradle. Setup requires a Java Development Kit and familiarity with an integrated development environment. The guide provides commands to generate run configurations for Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio Code. Configurations can specify arguments, working directories, task names, environment properties and system properties; Forge supplies client, server, data and gameTestServer run types. Developers can select human-readable mappings and use a reobf task to convert a mod JAR to SRG mappings for production. Dependencies can be sourced from repositories or a local flat directory and wrapped with fg.deobf. An optional Jar-in-Jar system bundles selected dependencies and records metadata during the build. The documentation covers Minecraft versions 1.12 through 1.19, plus 1.19.4. Its default stable and snapshot mappings are typically incomplete and are no longer available as of Minecraft 1.17. The repository identifies the license as LGPL-2.1.