Rubric
A multi-loader Minecraft mod configuration library.
Philosophy
Rubric does what YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL) originally set out to do: be a configuration library — and nothing more. It defines your config, loads and saves it, validates and migrates it, and syncs it between server and client. It does not draw the settings screen itself.
Where YACL grew into a full configuration-plus-GUI framework, Rubric stops at the library layer and leaves the frontend to whichever config-screen library the user already has
installed. Today that means YACL and Cloth Config, with more frontends possible via the ScreenProvider SPI. If neither is installed, Rubric still loads and edits your config on
disk — the in-game screen falls back to a placeholder that points the user at the config file.
Scope
- Loader-agnostic core, with a Fabric integration module (NeoForge planned).
- Annotation-driven or programmatic config definition.
- Correct-and-log validation, versioned migrations, and an event bus for change notifications.
- Server-authoritative sync with per-entry scope control.
- Pluggable format adapters (TOML, JSON, JSON5) and IO backends.
Status
Early. APIs may still shift.
License
MIT.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.8
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as rubric-neoforge-0.3.0+1.21.8.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 432 KB
- Download link checked 24 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.