Melon Loader

🍉 Melon Loader

The ultimate, seamlessly integrated custom background mod for Minecraft 1.8.9.

Melon Loader completely overhauls the vanilla Minecraft menus, allowing you to easily set your own gorgeous 16:9 wallpapers for the Loading Screen, Main Menu, Multiplayer/Singleplayer, and Settings menus.

Built with heavy modpacks in mind, Melon Loader is designed to be 100% compatible with Essential, Patcher, and PolishedGUI, seamlessly replacing their backgrounds without crashing or causing black screen glitches.

✨ Key Features

• Four Custom Background Slots: Set distinct images for your Forge Loading Screen, Home Page, Play Menus, and Settings Menus.
• Perfect 16:9 Smart Cropping: No more stretched or distorted images! Melon Loader uses dynamic UV math to act like a desktop wallpaper—smoothly zooming and cropping your image to perfectly fill the screen, no matter how you resize your window.
• In-Game Transparency: When you are actively playing in a world or on a server, Melon Loader gets out of your way. Opening your settings or resource packs in-game will beautifully blur your active gameplay in the background instead of covering it up.
• Smart Text Overlay: Menus with lots of text (like Multiplayer or Controls) automatically receive a sleek, 45% dark gradient overlay, ensuring white text remains perfectly readable without ruining the brightness of your Home Page.
• Native File Explorer: Powered by OneConfig, simply open the mod menu and click “Browse” to open a standard Windows/Mac file explorer. Select any .png or .jpg right from your computer—no need to type out complicated file paths!

🚀 Bulletproof Compatibility

Tired of UI mods breaking your background? Melon Loader uses advanced OpenGL rendering to bypass the hardcoded black boxes from UI mods and PvP Resource Packs (like Bombies).

• Compatible with Essential
• Compatible with Patcher
• Compatible with PolishedGUI
• Compatible with all PvP Resource Packs

⚙️ Getting Started

1. Drop MelonLoader-1.0.jar into your mods folder.
2. Launch Minecraft 1.8.9.
3. Open your OneConfig menu (usually RSHIFT).
4. Find Melon Loader and click the Browse… buttons to select your favorite 16:9 wallpapers.
5. Click Save, and your game will instantly update!

Note on Forge Loading Screens: For the custom splash screen to work, Forge’s default loading UI must be disabled. Melon Loader includes a handy “Fix Loading Screen” button right inside the config menu that will automatically configure your splash.properties file for you with one click!

📥 Requirements

• Minecraft Forge 1.8.9
• OneConfig (Required for the settings menu)