PAX is the solution to modern modpack development for Minecraft, usable both alone and in a team. It supports Forge & Fabric, can be version controlled with git, and one command is all you need in order to upload your pack to Curseforge.
The following features are implemented:
- ⌨️ CLI interface for quick actions
- 🔎 Search & Install for Curseforge mods
- 📥 Updating one mod or the whole modpack, automatically selecting the best available version
- 👁️ Mod Information (compability & whether an update is available) at one glance (see above picture ;) )
- 💾 Easily diffable files for ease of working with git
- 🤖 Continous Integration where you push your project to Github/Gitlab and a runner automatically builds your modpack and uploads it to Curseforge. It's magic, woohoo!
The following features are on the roadmap for the following weeks:
- 🔃 Minecraft Development Environment
- Sync file changes between your project and your minecraft launcher, so you don't have to import your modpack every time you make a change.
The newest version of PAX is available here.
Information about how to use PAX is available on the wiki, which contains:
- A Quickstart guide if you want to get up and running quickly
- A Getting Started page for users that want to go more in-depth.
| Feature | PAX | Curseforge Launcher | GDLauncher | MultiMC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creating a modpack | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Support for Fabric modpacks | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Adding/Removing mods | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Viewing installed mods | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Updating installed mods | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Loader compability information | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Mod compability information | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Mod update availability information | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Export to .zip |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Export to Curseforge-compatible .zip |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Open Source | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Multiple people working on one modpack | ✅ | 🙁 | 🙁 | 🙁 |
| Concurrent mod updates | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Version control support | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| CI/CD support | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Project/Minecraft Instance Sync | 🚧 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
You'll need:
- Nim
- A C compiler (depending on your operating system, one might be already installed)
Clone and cd into the repository - and you're good to go!
Run nimble build to build the application for development, or run nimble build -d:release to create an optimized release build.
Execute the program with ./pax (on Linux) or pax.exe (on Windows).
PAX is licensed under the MIT License.