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FabricMC / fabric-loader

Fabric's mostly-version-independent mod loader.
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Replace 'fabric' mod ID with 'Fabric API' in mod resolver window #840

Open Poopooracoocoo opened 1 year ago

Poopooracoocoo commented 1 year ago

New users tend to get confused by the legacy 'fabric' mod ID of Fabric API. In a perfect world, mods would have switched to the 'fabric-api' mod ID immediately, but we don't live in one. FabricMC could go and make it so mod authors need to use the 'fabric-api' mod ID, but that doesn't solve the problem on older versions of Minecraft, which users use (just look at the many Minecraft 1.18.2 and 1.19.2 modpacks), but mod developers won't port backwards to. Fabric Loader is in a unique position where it can make changes that will apply to any version of Minecraft.

Just an idea and I don't know how feasible this is. :)

Poopooracoocoo commented 9 months ago

After having seen https://www.reddit.com/r/fabricmc/comments/1ab69pz/what_do_i_do_what_do_i_download/, outright replacing all instances of it in the window isn't the right approach. Perhaps it should replace it in the "potential solutions" line. Or perhaps it should only replace it on Minecraft 1.19.2 and above.