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MinecraftDev

Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that gives special support for Minecraft modding projects.

From minecraft-dev·Updated June 18, 2026·View on GitHub·

Minecraft Development for IntelliJ ================================== The project is written primarily in Kotlin, distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2015. It has gained significant community traction with 1,762 stars and 224 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: architectury, bukkit, bungeecord, fabricmc, forge.

Latest release: 1.8.17-2026.2Release 2026.2-1.8.17
June 4, 2026View Changelog →
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Minecraft Development for IntelliJ

<table> <tr> <td align="center" colspan="3"><b>Build Status</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><b>Main Build</b></td> <td colspan="2"><a href="https://ci.mcdev.io/viewType.html?buildTypeId=MinecraftDev_Build"><img src="https://ci.mcdev.io/app/rest/builds/buildType:(id:MinecraftDev_Build)/statusIcon.svg" alt="Teamcity Build Status" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">2025.2</td> <td align="left"><a href="https://ci.mcdev.io/viewType.html?buildTypeId=MinecraftDev_Nightly_20252"><img src="https://ci.mcdev.io/app/rest/builds/buildType:(id:MinecraftDev_Nightly_20252)/statusIcon.svg" alt="2025.2 Nightly Status" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">2025.3</td> <td align="left"><a href="https://ci.mcdev.io/viewType.html?buildTypeId=MinecraftDev_Nightly_20253"><img src="https://ci.mcdev.io/app/rest/builds/buildType:(id:MinecraftDev_Nightly_20253)/statusIcon.svg" alt="2025.3 Nightly Status" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">2026.1</td> <td align="left"><a href="https://ci.mcdev.io/viewType.html?buildTypeId=MinecraftDev_Nightly_20261"><img src="https://ci.mcdev.io/app/rest/builds/buildType:(id:MinecraftDev_Nightly_20261)/statusIcon.svg" alt="2026.1 Nightly Status" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">2026.2</td> <td align="left"><a href="https://ci.mcdev.io/viewType.html?buildTypeId=MinecraftDev_Nightly_20262"><img src="https://ci.mcdev.io/app/rest/builds/buildType:(id:MinecraftDev_Nightly_20262)/statusIcon.svg" alt="2026.2 Nightly Status" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left"><b>OS Tests</b></td> <td align="left" colspan="2"> <a href="https://github.com/minecraft-dev/MinecraftDev/actions?query=workflow%3A%22Test%22"><img src="https://github.com/minecraft-dev/MinecraftDev/workflows/Test/badge.svg?branch=dev&event=push" alt="GitHub Action Status" /></a> </td> </tr> </table>

Info and Documentation Current Release

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Visit https://mcdev.io for some information about the project.

Installation

This plugin is available on the JetBrains IntelliJ plugin repository.

Because of this, you can install the plugin through IntelliJ's internal plugin browser. Navigate to
File -> Settings -> Plugins and click the Browse Repositories... button at the bottom of the window. In the search
box, simply search for Minecraft. You can install it from there and restart IntelliJ to activate the plugin.

Dependencies

Gradle will download all necessary dependencies to build the project, but you do need JDK 21 installed and available to
Gradle in order to build.

You can easily install JDK 21 from Adoptium.

Building

Build the plugin with:

./gradlew build

The output .zip file for the plugin will be in build/distributions.

Test the plugin in IntelliJ with:

./gradlew runIde

Code is generated during the build task, to run the generation task without building use:

./gradlew generate

This task is necessary to work on the code without errors before the initial build.

To format the code in this project:

./gradlew format

This will format using ktlint described below in the style guide section below.

The Gradle IntelliJ Plugin
will handle downloading the IntelliJ dependencies and packaging the
plugin.

Style Guide

This projects follows the opinionated ktlint linter and formatter. It uses the
ktlint-gradle plugin to automatically check and format the code in
this repo.

IDE Setup

It's recommended to run the ktlintApplyToIdea and addKtlintFormatGitPreCommitHook tasks to configure your
IDE with ktlint style settings and to automatically format this project's code before committing:

./gradlew ktlintApplyToIdea addKtlintFormatGitPreCommitHook

License

This project is licensed under LGPLv3.0-only.

Supported Platforms

Contributors

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