Architectury Loom vs Ravel Remapper

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.

Ravel Remapper is a free, MIT-licensed IntelliJ IDEA plugin for remapping Java and Kotlin source files. Built on IntelliJ’s Program Structure Interface and Mapping-IO, it supports Mixins, Class Tweakers, and Access Wideners; MixinExtras Expression is not supported. Developers can migrate mappings between Yarn and Mojang mappings, as described in Fabric documentation. From the editor’s Refactor menu, users choose mapping files, source and destination namespaces, and modules, then run the remap. Mapping files may be added manually or downloaded in the dialog, and users can select individual modules or all modules. The project recommends committing changes first, then searching for TODO(Ravel) and fixing detected issues manually. Installation is available through JetBrains Marketplace or a ZIP from GitHub Releases. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows; the latest listed release is version 0.6.4.