The meta plugin

The meta plugin is meant to easily set up a mod development environment with minimal clutter in the gradle buildscripts. The plugin adds a mod-extension to the project which allows you to configure almost the complete build setup with a single call to mod.configure. Note that the meta plugin is not meant to cover every use case and possibility in which you want a development environment to be set up but is meant to cover the needs for most simple mods only.

After running mod.configure, the mod extension holds some useful properties that should be useful in customizing the build even further.

Configuring the build

mod.configure accepts a closure with a lot of options and methods to be called on. These are documented under build setup. A simple example could look like this:

mod.configure {
    modid 'examplemod'
    neoforge '21.1.65'
    license 'MIT'
    github 'ExampleModGuy/ExampleMod'
    publishing {
        maven { url 'https://maven.examplemodguy.org/'  }
    }
    artifacts {
        sources {
            publishToRepositories()
        }
    }
}

The mod configuration page lists all available options in the mod.configure block.