Structured Mod Loader [FORGE]

StructuredModLoader

ATTENTION DISCONTINUED FOR NOW:

Hi – there was an issue with a specific 1.18.2 forge update.
Somebody made a pull-request on my GitHub, I didn’t come around to testing and building it but it would likely work.
I’ve more or less made the choice to abandon this project because Modpack managers like pax do not work with this kind of approach and in my eyes it does not make much sense since I found out about them.

StructuredModLoader, short SML, is a Minecraft Forge mod for those that wish to achieve a tidier \mods folder!
Once placed inside the main mods directory, it will recursively search for .jar files in all subfolders and present them to the regular Forge modloader FML.
This Mod is mainly aimed at modpack creators, to keep track of library mods and actually content-adding ones. (See example directory tree)
It will log everything it does or does not to the regular gamelog.

Getting started:

It’s as easy, as installing literally any other mod:
Drop the downloaded .jar file from the Releases page into the mods folder of your Minecraft Forge installation!
By default directories containing one of the keywords
ignore,unstable and disable
will be excluded from loading, aswell as any folder that is deeper than 3 folders in the directory tree.

Configuration:

Upon first launch, the Mod will create a config file located at \config\StructuredModLoader.toml, where you can configure the infinite list of keywords to be excluded aswell as the maximum recursion depth, capped at 5
If the file should get deleted or its Syntax (TOML) is invalid, the invalid values will be reset to their default and the file will be created again.

Examples: (Link!)

Notice the StructuredModLoader.jar is still inside the regular \mods folder, just like Optifine!

Dependencies:

• Minecraft 1.18+
• Forge 39+

Known incompatibilities:

• Optifine (FIX: place in regular \mods folder)
• Any mod that implements transformers or a coremod! (WIP)