What is Fabric Mod Loader?
Fabric Modloader is a mod/core library that aims of making mod developers able to port mods from one version to another more simply. Especially for new versions of Minecraft as version 1.16+,1.14+. Mods using Fabric as a library don’t even need to use Forge Mod Loader, which allows players to use mods in the new versions even if Forge ModLoader is only developed for Minecraft version 1.16+,1.14+.
It is a very good alternative of Forge for the Village & Pillage and the following updates. The main advantage of the loader is high speed, even with a large number of installed mods. By itself, it does not add anything to the game and is needed only for the development and use of add-ons. It also works with snapshots. To see them during installation, check the box next to “Show snapshots”. Almost every mod also requires installing the Fabric API.
These cool new mods are some of the top new Minecraft mods supporting Fabric instead of Minecraft Forge (Forge Mod Loader).
- Tech Reborn (Like IndustrialCraft 2 IC2 & Minefactory Reloaded)
- Simple Harvest
- Soul Shards Respawn
- Mod Menu (Fabric API)
- Extra Bows
- Roughly Enough Items (REI – Rift Mod Loader & Fabric)
- Fish Traps
- Immersive Portals
- ExtraDoors
- Couplings
How to install:
MultiMC:
NOTE MultiMC is a modding-friendly alternate launcher for Minecraft, which is recommended for working with Fabric and can be found here.
- Download the Fabric MultiMC below.
- Start MultiMC. Click on “Add Instance” in the top-left, then select “Import from ZIP” and paste the URL in the text field. Don’t forget to set the name!
- Press OK. Your Fabric instance is ready to go – feel free to add mods to it.
Regular client:
- Download the Fabric installer below.
- Open the installer. In the window you need to configure the mapping and loader version and the install location (the default should be fine on most platforms).
NOTE You need to enable snapshots in order to make the installer show mapping options for Minecraft snapshots. - Press Install. A new game version and profile will be created in the launcher’s menu, which you can now use to launch Fabric.
Server:
- Download the Fabric installer below.
- Open the installer. Select the “Server” tab at the top of the window.
- In the window you need to configure the mapping and loader version and the install location.
NOTE You need to enable snapshots in order to make the installer show mapping options for Minecraft snapshots. - Press Install. In the output directory, a
fabric-server-launch.jar
will be created. It expects aserver.jar
, which is the vanilla server JAR, generally found on Mojang’s version announcement blog posts, next to it, but will also generate a properties file on first launch where you can change the path.
NOTE If you are upgrading your existing server, remember to remove the.fabric
folder if the installer did not remove that for you! Or you will get classloading errors.
Download Fabric Modloader for Minecraft 1.16.5/1.16.4/1.15.2/1.14.4
Fabric Modloader for MultiMC:
For Minecraft 1.14.2 – Install for Multi Minecraft
For Minecraft 1.14.3 – Install for Multi Minecraft
For Minecraft 1.14.4 – Install for Multi Minecraft (Download from Server)
For Minecraft 1.15.1-1.15.2- 1.15 – Install for Multi Minecraft
- For MC 1.15: Download from Server
- For MC 1.15.1: Download from Server
- For MC 1.15.2: Download from Server
For Minecraft 1.16+ – Install for Multi Minecraft
For MC 1.16: Download from Server