Add more loaders

[ThexXTURBOXx]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am sharing mods that can run on ModLoaderMP (yes, this thing from literally 2011/2012) or even Vanilla Minecraft as a jar-mod via Modrinth. However, these loaders (or Vanilla) are not selectable.

Describe the solution you'd like More selectable loaders would not only be nice for legacy modders. A small list of loaders that immediately come to my mind are:

• [x] ModLoader
• [ ] ModLoaderMP (yes, this one is different from ModLoader)
• [x] Rift
• [ ] Meddle
• [x] LiteLoader

Describe alternatives you've considered Leaving the Loader field empty yields an error.

[NebelNidas]

Not to forget LiteLoader

[ThexXTURBOXx]

@NebelNidas Good point, nearly forgot that one, thanks!

[Asbestosstar]

I would like to see LitLaunch and all other mod loaders also

[DioEgizio]

What's the point on supporting incredibly old mod loaders

[pluiedev]

fune

In a more serious note, supporting them would need to add logic to identify and validate the jars, which potentially could be quite an undertaking

[ThexXTURBOXx]

What's the point on supporting incredibly old mod loaders

There is a rather large stream of people that are dedicated to legacy modding. Popular examples include, but are not limited to ModificationStation, MCArchive, OmniArchive etc. There is still demand for these :)

In a more serious note, supporting them would need to add logic to identify and validate the jars, which potentially could be quite an undertaking

I am not quite sure if there is any logic to verify the jars as of right now. I was able to upload all of my mods without a problem, even though none of the labels is completely correct. This makes me believe that either the logic is broken or not yet implemented. And even if there is logix to verify the jars: Verifying a ModLoader/ModLoaderMP mod would basically require the same procedure as verifying a Forge mod (Forge was built on top of ModLoaderMP back in the days). Thus, again, even if there was logic to verify these mods, the same logic must - at any point - be also able to verify Forge mods. Also, why are we then able to select versions like rd-132211 in the first place? Forge does only exist from b1.7.3 onwards and Fabric only supports b1.7.3 by using the Cursed Fabric project. If there is no other mod loader that can be selected, it makes no sense to even give the possibility of selecting such a version.

I hope, this clears up my view on this topic :) (After reading this again, I noticed that this text sounds a bit rude, but I have no intentions of being rude here, I am just pointing out why the current system does not make sense)

[kreezxil]

isn't it up to the launcher to know what to do with modloader field in the api response packet/json files? forgive me if I'm making scrambled eggs here.

I say just go ahead and add those, but surely don't feel obligated to implement them into your launcher. Let some other crazy launcher such as GDLauncher do it. Which btw that launcher can even launch 1.2.5 packs and yes, someone just updated a mod down there last December. not me tho.

[ThexXTURBOXx]

@kreezxil If I think about it, that's another very good point. If a launcher offers mod downloads directly from Modrinth, mods using LiteLoader or other mod loaders won't work regardless. By adding more mod loaders to choose from, you are even helping these custom launchers deciding on whether the mod is supported.

[kreezxil]

@ThexXTURBOXx :)

[triphora]

ModLoader and Rift have been added. We'll be working on adding more soon, which on the frontend would be under a "More" or "Other" header or something similar, so the large and popular loaders are more easily accessible.

[ThexXTURBOXx]

@wafflecoffee Thank you very much :D Already enabled ModLoader for all my mods that support it and it worked flawlessly!

[triphora]

@ThexXTURBOXx Could you create posts for the remaining ones in modrinth/.github#106? No pressure to do this immediately, but it'd be easier to keep track of them individually there.

[ThexXTURBOXx]

@triphora Of course! Will do so within the next few days. Thanks for letting me know about that

[ThexXTURBOXx]

Done for all of them except for Java Agent. @Prospector Maybe you can do that one as I think it's your addition, right?

[triphora]

Added that to the megathread - closing as such!

[ThexXTURBOXx]

@Prospector: Since my loader request was hidden I could not reply to it anymore on the megathread:

Actually, the inner workings of MLMP rather use ModLoader as a library, but there is little point in discussing about that. I would call MLMP rather an extension of ModLoader which is the reason the distinction between just ModLoader and MLMP was so important to me and every other legacy modder: You can load ModLoader mods in MLMP, but not vice versa.

Also, more versions are also archived here if you want to extend your archive (there are also more versions of ModLoader available etc.): https://mcarchive.net/mods/modloadermp?gvsn=

[Prospector]

It's not a loader though, it's a library that many mods depend on using the ModLoader mod loader. It doesn't load mods, it just adds new APIs for mods to use.

Edit: and yeah, I've now got the complete official archive of MLMP from SDK, will upload it soon.