IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE for professional Java and Kotlin development, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Alternatives to Blockbench
Blockbench focuses on low-poly 3D work: cuboid and mesh modeling, texture creation and painting, and UV map and template generation. Its animation editor includes rigging and keyframes for position, rotation, and scale, with a graph editor; plugins can add tools, export formats, and model generators. It is free for any type of project, open source under GPL, and available on desktop, mobile, and the web. You can also connect an external image or pixel-art editor. A…
Visual Studio Code is a free, open-source code editor with AI-assisted development tools for macOS, Linux, Windows and the web.
Fabric is a free, modular mod loader for Minecraft, with tools for players and mod developers.
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Minecraft Development MCP Server
Minecraft Development MCP Server gives AI assistants tools to decompile, remap, search, and analyze Minecraft source code and mods.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.6Free plan - 5
Quilt Loom
Quilt Loom is a Gradle plugin that adds Quilt support to the Fabric Loom Gradle plugin for Minecraft modding projects.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.6Free plan - 6
Architectury Loom
Architectury Loom is a free Gradle plugin for preparing deobfuscated development environments for Minecraft mods.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.5Free plan - 7

Gradle
Gradle Build Tool is a free, open-source system for automating software builds across projects of different types and sizes.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSWindows6.5Free plan - 8
Ravel Remapper
Ravel Remapper is an IntelliJ IDEA plugin for changing mappings in Java and Kotlin source files.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.5Free plan - 9
Vineflower
Vineflower is a free, open-source Java decompiler intended to produce readable code from Java classes.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.5Free plan - 10

Eclipse IDE
Eclipse IDE is a free development platform for building integrated tools and rich client applications.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.4Free plan - 11
MCreator
MCreator is free, open-source software for creating Minecraft Java mods, Bedrock add-ons, resource packs, and data packs.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.3Free plan - 12
Retrom
Retrom is a centralized game library management service focused on emulation.
WebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.3 - 13
ForgeFlower
ForgeFlower is a free software project containing Forge’s modifications to FernFlower, intended to address bugs and inconsistencies.
Free planLinux6.2Free plan - 14

Minecraft Forge
Minecraft Forge is free, open-source software that provides a modding API for Minecraft Java Edition.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.2Free plan - 15
CurseForgeGradle
CurseForgeGradle is a free, open-source Gradle plugin for publishing build artifacts to CurseForge.
Free planAPI6.1Free plan - 16
Parchment
Parchment provides community-created parameter names and Javadocs for Minecraft mod development.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.1Free plan - 17
ForgeGradle
ForgeGradle is a Gradle plugin and Minecraft mod development framework for Forge and FML.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.0Free plan - 18
CurseForge Gradle Publish Plugin
CurseForge Gradle Publish Plugin is a free Gradle plugin for publishing build artifacts to CurseForge.
Free planAPImacOSWindows5.9Free plan - 19

NeoForge
NeoForge is a free Minecraft Java Edition mod loader and API for developing and running mods.
APILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted5.9 - 20
MixinExtras
MixinExtras is a free companion library for SpongePowered Mixin that adds custom injectors for changing and wrapping supported bytecode behavior.
Free planLinux5.8Free plan - 21
ModDevGradle
ModDevGradle is a Gradle plugin for developing Minecraft mods with NeoForge.
Free planLinux5.8Free plan - 22
Mod Publish Plugin
Mod Publish Plugin is a free, self-hosted Gradle plugin for publishing Minecraft mods to multiple destinations.
Free planSelf-hosted5.7Free plan - 23
SpongePowered Mixin
Free planSelf-hosted5.7Free plan - 24

Minecraft Development
Minecraft Development is a free, open-source IntelliJ plugin for developers creating Java Minecraft mods, server plugins, and proxy projects.
Free planExtension5.6Free plan - 25

Recaf
Recaf is an open-source Java bytecode editor for analyzing and changing compiled Java applications, and a tool for Java and Android reverse engineering.
LinuxmacOSWindows5.6 - 26
McDeob
McDeob is free software for remapping and optionally decompiling Minecraft server and client JAR files.
LinuxmacOSWindows5.5 - 27
Minotaur
API5.4 - 28
Tiny Remapper
Linux5.2 - 29
Neo-Loom
Neo-Loom is a free Gradle plugin for setting up Minecraft mod development environments with NeoForge and MinecraftForge.
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