Rift Mod 1.13

Rift is a lightweight modding API, library, and mod loader designed for Minecraft 1.13. Its primary goal is to provide a modular and lightweight modding API for the game. Rift focuses on extending existing game aspects without introducing additional dependencies, using an interface-based system instead of a complex event system. It encourages mods to use the Mixin library for modifying vanilla behavior through callbacks or redirects, rather than relying on fixed hooks. Rift intentionally omits complex features like energy APIs or custom block state formats, advocating for these to be implemented as separate library mods to allow quicker updates to newer Minecraft versions and avoid unnecessary feature loading for users.

The API emphasizes integrating mods with vanilla Minecraft by using vanilla APIs and sharing creative tabs and option menus. Rift offers interfaces for registering various game elements, including items, blocks, tile entities, fluids, enchantments, particle types, potion effects, biomes, and entities. It also provides a simple network API for both vanilla and mod messages and includes tick events. Rift supports Mixin and other class transformers, enabling automatic dependency downloading and extraction. Partial dependencies on other mods are also supported, where certain features activate only when another mod is present.