Silk [*[s\u026alk]*](https:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/media\/english\/us_pron_ogg\/s\/sil\/silk_\/silk__us_1.ogg)
\nis a Minecraft API for Kotlin – targetting Fabric, Quilt and
\nPaper. <\/p>\n
Join our Discord or Matrix Space<\/p>\n
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Features of the API:<\/p>\n
– an inventory GUI API
\n– a Kotlin wrapper for Brigadier
\n– a Kotlin DSL for creating complex `Text` objects
\n– coroutine utilities and tasks
\n– kotlinx.serialization support for Minecraft classes
\n– a scoreboard (sideboard) API
\n– `ItemStack` utilities
\n– serialization of any class to NBT with kotlinx.serialization
\n– an NBT builder
\n– an API for storing persistent data on Chunks, Entities etc
\n– kotlinx.serialization based networking (packets c2s, s2c and c2c)
\n– Kotlin Compose UI support
\n– general extensions for Entities, Worlds and more
\n– geometry utilities<\/p>\n
## Docs<\/p>\n
The docs link can be found on **Silk GitHub**.<\/p>\n
Read them to get started with each module and see how to add it to your Gradle project.<\/p>\n
Note: Currently, the ingame ID of the wrapper mod is `silk-all`<\/p>\n
## License<\/p>\n
Current versions of Silk are available under the **GPL-3.0**, while older
\nversions below 1.5.1 of (at that time FabrikMC) have been shared under the Apache-2.0 License.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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