I'm not too sure/remember when I took a look at both Forge and Fabric to see what I was up against with my basic Java skills and Fabric with the first few tutorials was very easy to understand while Forge I had no clue how to make things work after the beginning setup part and found it to have a much larger skill requirement (at least to me others may not have that experience).
That and I've heard that Forge documentation is very hard to find or the community can be hit and miss with help (whether older versions and telling you to move to newer ones or just asking simple questions of what to do, both from different people I've never experienced it myself so can only say second hand info from Fabric devs that moved to Fabric or others just wanting to get help with Forge).
While with Fabric they have it on their website https://fabricmc.net/develop/ and are willing to help via Discord in dev channels of the Fabric Discord, found their help to be good.
I'd say watch some tutorials to see what you can understand and go from there. If it seems to much go with Mcreator as an alternative.
Probably. Fabric and Forge are very different environments. I would assume in terms of skill maybe it's possible but Fabric is a lot more lightweight (so not as performance heavy and also you will use less code I'm pretty sure). Can only go off what I've heard though.
You could just take a look at both and see what suits what your after more in terms of accessibility to code and the features they each provide to bring your mod to life..
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What aspects of Java do I need to know to start modding?
I'm not too sure/remember when I took a look at both Forge and Fabric to see what I was up against with my basic Java skills and Fabric with the first few tutorials was very easy to understand while Forge I had no clue how to make things work after the beginning setup part and found it to have a much larger skill requirement (at least to me others may not have that experience).
That and I've heard that Forge documentation is very hard to find or the community can be hit and miss with help (whether older versions and telling you to move to newer ones or just asking simple questions of what to do, both from different people I've never experienced it myself so can only say second hand info from Fabric devs that moved to Fabric or others just wanting to get help with Forge).
While with Fabric they have it on their website https://fabricmc.net/develop/ and are willing to help via Discord in dev channels of the Fabric Discord, found their help to be good.
I'd say watch some tutorials to see what you can understand and go from there. If it seems to much go with Mcreator as an alternative.
Any Fabric tutorials I can find in 1 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbOPi5L7V78LUzaRqm5KJ0GQFr1XGvc3d No videos exist for their older versions of Minecraft projects (legacy fabric and cursed fabric) to my knowledge but there is some documentation and example mod somewhere on those projects websites which I have a forum thread for those 2 projects here https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-mods/mods-discussion/3028341-legacy-fabric-cursed-fabric-discussion-thread-for
Forge tutorials (many people recommend McJty, I'd say SilentChaos512 is pretty good but just pick anyone's video for whatever version of Minecraft you want to mod for and go from there): https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=forge modding tutorial
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So, as far as I understand, beginner's choice is Fabric. And when I get used to modding, I can move to Forge?
Probably. Fabric and Forge are very different environments. I would assume in terms of skill maybe it's possible but Fabric is a lot more lightweight (so not as performance heavy and also you will use less code I'm pretty sure). Can only go off what I've heard though.
You could just take a look at both and see what suits what your after more in terms of accessibility to code and the features they each provide to bring your mod to life..
Niche Community Content Finder, Youtuber, Modpack/Map Maker, Duck
Forum Thread Maintainer for APortingCore, Liteloader Download HUB, Asphodel Meadows, Fabric Project, Legacy Fabric/Cursed Fabric, Power API, Rift/Fabric/Forge 1.13 to 1.17.
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I recommend you to follow this github: MinecraftByExample
"The purpose of MinecraftByExample is to give simple working examples of the important concepts in Minecraft and Forge..."
Please: Learn/create for Forge and Fabric.