Fabric is not compatible with Fork

[The-Monkey-King]

Conditions:

• AMD PC
• Windows 10
• Running admin privileges
• Installed Fork, installed Spigot 1.17.1

Process:

1. Tried to find Fabric in the Plugins section of Fork but did not see it. I downloaded the Fabric installer and ran manual Fabric process [See: https://fabricmc.net/wiki/player:tutorials:install_mcl:windows]
2. Process created ".fabric" and ".fabric-installer" folders in AppData\Roaming\Fork\servers[server_name], edited the start.bat to replace "server.jar" with "fabric-server-launch.jar"
3. Restarting Server through Fork, fabric is running with no errors.
4. Stopped server.
5. Dropped "fabric-api-0.40.9+1.18.jar" file into ..\AppData\Roaming\Fork\servers[server_name]\plugins because there was not an %appdata%.minecraft folder and there is not a "mods" folder.
6. Error shows fabric api not installed. "Jar does not contain plugin.yml" message.
7. Was able to download and use other mods from the Fork plugin directory.
8. Cannot download and install other mods manually. (Examples: BiomesOPlenty-1.17.1-14.0.0.38-universal.jar, better-nether-5.1.3.jar, and better-end-0.11.0-pre.jar)
9. I tried editing plugins.jason to include the fabric api, but it still failed to load,

[ChristianKernDev]

Hey thanks for the detailed info. First of all Fork is not using the start.bat file, but always runs server.jar so you have to rename the jar you want to run to start Fabric to server.jar Also i never set up Fabric myself so if that is not solving your Problem you have to do some more experiments i fear.

[The-Monkey-King]

Okay, I did the rename and it fails. fabric-server-launch.jar is a pass through set of requirements on top of server.jar. It needs server.jar to exist on the server_name root directory. So this will not work.

[The-Monkey-King]

I'm going to close this issue since the Fork application itself looks for server.jar and not start.bat.

Cannot use Fabric with Fork. Updated the issue title to reflect application is working as designed but incompatible with Fabric-based mods.

Notes for others:

• Fabric-enabled server needs to start with fabric-server-launch.jar and pass information to server.jar
• Anything downloaded/installed in a mods directory (..\AppData\Roaming\Fork\servers[server_name]\mods) will not be seen by Fork
• Cardboard (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/cardboard) will not work, as it needs Fabric to work first.
• All Fabric-based or other "mods" (e.g called a mod and not a plugin) will not work if downloaded to the plugins directory (..\AppData\Roaming\Fork\servers[server_name]\plugins) because the .JAR files do not include a "plugin.yml" file.

[ChristianKernDev]

Thanks. This issue will be addressed in the future.