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Mod Publish Plugin vs SpongePowered Mixin

Both stand on minecraft mod development tools. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Mod Publish Plugin

Free plan Self-hosted

Mod Publish Plugin brings multi-destination Minecraft mod publishing into a Gradle task, with dry runs and retry configuration. Check the Gradle requirement and configure a supported environment for CurseForge before relying on those destinations.

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SpongePowered Mixin

Free plan Self-hosted

Mixin provides runtime bytecode weaving and compile-time mapping support for Java projects. Forge projects should account for MixinGradle's ForgeGradle-only support and version-matching requirement.

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The facts

	Mod Publish Plugin	SpongePowered Mixin
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Lowest paid plan	Free or on request	Free or on request
Plans published	1	1
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	github.com	github.com
On minecraft mod development tools	#24 of 35	#28 of 35

Mod Publish Plugin: what it does well

Publishes to eight listed destinations.
Typesafe DSL configures multiple destinations.
Dry runs save assets to the build directory.
Groovy build scripts are fully supported.
Retries failed publishing attempts.

What to know first

Version 2.0.0 requires Gradle 9.0.0 or newer.
CurseForge requires a client or server environment.
Self-hosted; no other platform is listed.

SpongePowered Mixin: what it does well

Free plan listed as free
Supports Forge, ModLauncher and LegacyLauncher
Annotation processor generates obfuscation mappings
Eclipse processor support for contextual errors and warnings
Code debugging is listed as supported

What to know first

LegacyLauncher service is deprecated
MixinGradle supports ForgeGradle only
MixinGradle and ForgeGradle versions must match

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