MinecraftForge VS fabric

Compare MinecraftForge vs fabric and see what are their differences.

MinecraftForge

Modifications to the Minecraft base files to assist in compatibility between mods. New Discord: https://discord.minecraftforge.net/ (by MinecraftForge)

fabric

Essential hooks for modding with Fabric. (by FabricMC)
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MinecraftForge fabric
60 21
6,662 2,086
0.5% 1.6%
9.2 9.4
11 days ago 5 days ago
Java Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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MinecraftForge

Posts with mentions or reviews of MinecraftForge. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.

fabric

Posts with mentions or reviews of fabric. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-04.
  • Behind a proxy, how can I prevent clients with no mods or missing mods from entering?
    1 project | /r/fabricmc | 31 May 2023
    This is a topic that was partially addressed during 2019 https://github.com/FabricMC/fabric/issues/463
  • Creat astral brass not mixing
    1 project | /r/CreateMod | 27 May 2023
    Their reasoning is here
  • Recipe Datapack Help.
    1 project | /r/CreateMod | 9 May 2023
    https://github.com/FabricMC/fabric/issues/1166 Here’s the reasoning behind the 81,000 number
  • Fabric Hider?
    1 project | /r/fabricmc | 27 Mar 2023
    What error message are you getting, theres someone who had a simmilar issue and it turned out it was due to a problem with spigot server side. https://github.com/FabricMC/fabric/issues/849
  • Why users should care about QuiltMC?
    2 projects | /r/feedthebeast | 4 Aug 2022
    Fabric's Lead Developer as a Tyrant philosophy isn't necessarily bad; there are significant benefits to having a very unified vision and avoiding design by committee. But it necessarily limits throughput at that Tyrant, and in Fabric's case, that lead to a generally slow level of progress on a lot of important aspects, partly because people spent a lot of time in Discord talking about making a perfect Fluid API, or Config API, and never actually got around to making one, and partly because once they were made it'd spend the better part of a year with things sitting in PR or only as an issue. Forge had a similar problem back in the 1.6-1.7 days (until it finally just got in the habit of getting people sick of having to deal with dependencies and just merging in a best extant normal-person library), but Forge could get away with that when the alternative was vanilla. From a user's perspective, if you want a config system, or standardized (not-TechReborn) energy api, this matters.
  • fabric VS quilted-fabric-api - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 28 Jul 2022
  • Fabric API not working (zip file is empty error)
    1 project | /r/fabricmc | 27 Jun 2022
    FIX! I downloaded it using the same link using wget instead of curl, and it worked immediately. I have no clue why it worked with wget and not curl. Any further insight would be appreciated. Working command: wget https://github.com/FabricMC/fabric/releases/download/0.56.1%2B1.18.2/fabric-api-0.56.1+1.18.2.jar.
  • How to force client to have mod
    1 project | /r/fabricmc | 18 May 2022
    Since you develop the mod, you could probably set up a login network channel to send a small "I am installed" packet when a client logs in.
  • Help minecraft keeps crashing Exit code inside
    2 projects | /r/Minecraft | 12 May 2022
    https://github.com/Wurst-Imperium/Wurst7/issues/625 https://github.com/FabricMC/fabric/issues/2145
  • Anyone know where I can find the texture for these arrows?
    1 project | /r/fabricmc | 4 May 2022
    Their identifier is fabric:textures/gui/creative_buttons.png. They can be found on GitHub.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MinecraftForge and fabric you can also consider the following projects:

Femboy-Desktop-Flooder - Because GreatZardasht asked for it

Paper - The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server that aims to fix gameplay and mechanics inconsistencies

minecraft-world-downloader - Download Minecraft worlds, extend server's render distance. 1.12.2 - 1.20.4

EventBus - Event Bus

minecolonies - Minecolonies minecraft mod

hopperOptimizations - A mod that optimizes hoppers and their interactions with entities and inventories. It drastically reduces hopper lag without changing any behavior.

PojavLauncher - A Minecraft: Java Edition Launcher for Android and iOS based on Boardwalk. This repository contains source code for Android platform.

Airplane - A stable, optimized, well supported 1.17.1 Paper fork.

GeyserConnect - GeyserConnect is an easy way for bedrock clients to connect to any Java edition servers without having to run anything.

Tuinity - [Moved to: https://github.com/Tuinity/Tuinity]

FarPlaneTwo - Level-of-Detail renderer in Minecraft. Allows for render distances of millions of blocks. (Cubic Chunks-compatible) (WIP)

SportPaper - Performance-tuned Minecraft 1.8 server