The best MCreator alternatives
The rest of Best Minecraft Mod Development Tools, in this site's order: each with what it costs, where it runs and its record score.
Blockbench suits people creating low-poly models, textures, or animated models.
It suits developers working in Java or Kotlin who want coding assistance, debugging, build-tool integrations, and version-control support in one IDE.
Quilt Loom suits developers building Minecraft projects for the Quilt loader who use Gradle.
It suits developers who want a free editor with built-in tools, extensions, remote development, and optional AI agent workflows.
Architectury Loom suits Minecraft mod developers working across Fabric, Forge, NeoForge or Quilt.
Eclipse IDE suits developers building tools or applications, including those working in Java and other supported development areas.
Fabric suits Minecraft players who want to use mods and developers building or debugging them.
Gradle suits developers building Java, Android, Kotlin, and other supported project types, from startups to large enterprises.
It suits Minecraft mod developers who need to inspect source or mods, validate loader-specific code, or compare game versions.
Ravel suits developers working on Fabric mod source projects who need to migrate or remap Java and Kotlin mappings.
Vineflower suits developers who need command-line, library or IntelliJ access to Java decompilation.
ForgeGradle suits developers setting up Minecraft mods for Forge or FML who already have a JDK and IDE familiarity.
This plugin suits developers who publish build artifacts to CurseForge from Gradle projects, especially those using Fabric or NeoForge tooling.
ForgeFlower is for people seeking Forge’s modifications to FernFlower, particularly those working with the related Java decompiler project.
ModDevGradle suits developers building and testing Minecraft mods with NeoForge who use Gradle or IntelliJ.
It may suit Java developers who use Gradle to publish build artifacts to CurseForge.