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Architectury Loom is a free, open-source Gradle plugin for preparing deobfuscated Minecraft mod development environments. It works with Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and Quilt, supports Yarn, Official Mojang, and MCP mappings, and includes dependency management and artifact packaging for Minecraft 1.14.4 and newer. Fernflower and CFR generate source with comments. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, requires Gradle 8.1 or newer, and documents support for IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio Code. Its ForgeGradle replacement role suits projects spanning multiple mod loaders.
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Blockbench
Free plan Open source AndroidAPIiPhone+5Low-poly Minecraft model creation and animation — Blockbench is a cross-platform 3D model editor with texturing, animation, and plugins, rather than a Gradle mod-development environment.
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Visual Studio Code
Free plan LinuxMacWeb+1General code editing across desktop and web — Visual Studio Code adds broad editing features, extensions, and multi-agent development, while Loom specializes in Minecraft Gradle setup.
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Minecraft Development MCP Server
Free plan APILinuxMac+2AI-assisted Minecraft source analysis — Minecraft Development MCP Server focuses on AI-accessible decompilation, remapping, search, validation, and version comparisons instead of project setup.
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Quilt Loom
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsQuilt projects using quilt.mod.json — Quilt Loom adds Quilt Releases, Quilt Mappings, Quiltflower, and quilt.mod.json features such as transitive access wideners.
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Eclipse IDE
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsJava development with broad IDE tooling — Eclipse provides Java, Git, XML, Maven, and Gradle tooling with Marketplace plugins, while Loom targets Minecraft mod environment setup.
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Fabric
Free plan APILinuxMac+2Lightweight Minecraft mod loading and templates — Fabric is a modular mod loader with templates, command-line tools, Fabric Loom, Yarn mappings, and remapping utilities rather than Loom alone.
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ForgeGradle
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsForge-focused builds and run configurations — ForgeGradle centers on Forge and FML, offering configurable client, server, data, and gameTestServer runs plus reobf and Jar-in-Jar.
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CurseForge Gradle Publish Plugin
Free plan APIMacWindows - 9
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IntelliJ IDEA
Free plan APIExtensionLinux+2 - 11
CurseForgeGradle
Free plan API - 12
MCreator
Free plan LinuxMacWindows - 13
Minecraft Forge
Free plan LinuxMacWindows - 14
ForgeFlower
Free plan Linux - 15
McDeob
Free plan LinuxMacWindows - 16
Minecraft Development
Free plan Extension - 17
NeoForge
Free plan APILinuxMac+2 - 18
Parchment
Free plan LinuxMacWindows - 19
Ravel Remapper
Free plan LinuxMacWindows - 20
Vineflower
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1 - 21
MixinExtras
Free plan Linux - 22
ModDevGradle
Free plan Linux - 23
Mod Publish Plugin
Free plan Self-hosted - 24
Retrom
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+2
Readers may look elsewhere when they need modeling, a general-purpose editor, AI-assisted source analysis, Quilt-specific metadata, broader Java tooling, a standalone loader, or Forge-focused run configurations. Loom is described as experimental, and its documented IDE support excludes other editors. Compare whether a replacement handles your build and dependency workflow, mappings, decompilation, validation, metadata, packaging, or editing needs. Also consider platform coverage and whether you want an integrated Gradle plugin or a more focused tool for one stage of Minecraft development.
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