Architectury Loom comparisons
Architectury Loom is compared head-to-head with Minecraft Development, ModDevGradle and ForgeGradle and more: 7 head-to-heads in Minecraft Mod Development Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Architectury Loom head-to-head
- Architectury Loom vs Minecraft Development
- Architectury Loom vs ModDevGradle
- Architectury Loom vs ForgeGradle
- Architectury Loom vs NeoGradle
- Architectury Loom vs MCreator
- Architectury Loom vs Minecraft Forge
- Architectury Loom vs NeoForge
Architectury Loom vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Supported loaders | Dependency management | Minecraft versions | Artifact packaging | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Architectury Loom | Yes | Free | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt | Yes | 1.14.4+ | Yes | 9.4 |
| 2 | Minecraft Development | Free | Spigot, Paper, Sponge, Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, Architectury, Mixins, BungeeCord, Waterfall, Velocity | 9.2 | ||||
| 3 | ModDevGradle | Yes | Free | NeoForge; Minecraft Forge | Yes | 1.17–1.20.1; 1.21.1; 26.1.2; 26.2; 26.3 | Yes | 9.1 |
| 4 | ForgeGradle | Yes | Free | Forge, FML | Yes | 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.19.4 | Yes | 9.0 |
| 5 | NeoGradle | Free | NeoForge, FML | Yes | 1.20.2, 26.1 | Yes | 8.9 | |
| 6 | MCreator | Free | 8.8 | |||||
| 7 | Minecraft Forge | Yes | Free | 8.7 | ||||
| 8 | NeoForge | Yes | Free | 8.6 |
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