Wait a minute, what if I didn't extract manifests and instead just directly read them from the zip file like FenPhoenix does with AngelLoader?

[DrewNaylor]

That should help with performance and save disk writes. Hopefully it's not too difficult to grab specific files from the zip file like it is with another format I think that Fen complained about in one video from a while ago.

This way I can still have stuff like the code where I find the path for the details/locale manifest from the version manifest, for example.

Edit: I can also delete the un-necessary stuff from the zip file before moving it to the correct location, and I can use GetEntry to just read specific files.