Search for mods recursively

[sargunv]

I'd love to be able to organize my mods however I like within the "mods/" folder, so for example I could maintain a structure like this:

minecraft/
| mods/
  | lib/
    | fabric.jar
    | fabric-language-kotlin.jar
    | cloth.jar
    | crochet.jar
  | core/
    | roughly-enough-items.jar
    | modmenu.jar
  | content/
    | level-up-hp.jar
    | some-really-cool-mod.jar
  | utility/
    | lead-villagers.jar
    | some-tweaks-here.jar

[liach]

For now, you can use prefix in your mod jar names to serve this purpose while getting mods loaded by the loader.

[liach]

We should have a vote on this. I disagree as people may actually use folders to put their disabled mods in.

[Pannoniae]

You can treat a folder named "disabled" as a special-case for disabled mods, and everything else as just a category.

[liach]

Imo there are just too many "special cases" to consider, including version-specific folders, etc. maybe we can have a file that defines what folders to load from? (bad idea possibly, overcomplicated)

[Frontrider]

I'd say that if you want to remove a mod then actually remove that mod, or add a ".disabled" extension to the file like multimc does.

[Julienraptor01]

One idea could be that by default subfolders are loaded except :
If the name of the folder is a MC version that isn't the one used
If the name of the folder end by .disabled

If recursivity is added and a subfolder is in a subfolder, will it be loaded
Example of what i mean

mods
->1.16.5
-->libs
--->someLib+v1.0.0.jar
--->someOtherLib+v1.0.0.jar
-->mods
--->someMod+v1.0.0.jar
--->someOtherMod+v1.0.0.jar
-->notWorking.disabled
--->anotherMod+v1.0.0.jar
->1.18.2
-->libs
--->someLib+v2.0.0.jar
--->someOtherLib+v2.0.0.jar
-->mods
--->someMod+v2.0.0.jar
--->someOtherMod+v2.0.0.jar
-->notWorking.disabled
--->anotherMod+v2.0.0.jar

[sfPlayer1]

Recursive loading is currently only available with some customization, e.g. -Dfabric.addMods=mods effectively makes the whole folder recursively available

[Julienraptor01]

Recursive loading is currently only available with some customization, e.g. -Dfabric.addMods=mods effectively makes the whole folder recursively available

Nice 👍
Having this feature toggleable is a really good idea.
Version sorting and folder disabling could be a great addition.

[MJRamon]

Bumping this, as it is essential feature for server owners and modpack makers.

[claymorwan]

We need this feature fr, I have multiple mc instances, one being a vanilla with clients mods, but that means I have to manually add the client mod to every instance everytime I add one. It would be easier if I could just link my mod folder for the client only mods to my otehr instances so I just have to add it to 1 directory to get it sync