Strata-Minecraft runs Strata, an engine-agnostic GUI library for Java, inside Minecraft. Screens go through vanilla's GUI pipeline and take input from vanilla's screen callbacks, so they look and behave like vanilla screens and follow the player's resource packs.
Each Minecraft version has a branch of its own: main for the newest, mc/1.21.1 and mc/1.20.1 for the versions most mods settled on.
| Minecraft | Branch |  NeoForge |
 Forge |
 Fabric |
 Sponge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26.3 | main |
26.3.0.83 or newer, SpongeNeo optional | 66.0.13 or newer, SpongeForge optional | Loader 0.19.5 or newer | SpongeVanilla for SpongeAPI 21 |
| 1.21.1 | mc/1.21.1 |
21.1.264 or newer, SpongeNeo optional | 52.1.20 or newer, SpongeForge optional | Loader 0.19.5 or newer | Through SpongeNeo and SpongeForge, SpongeAPI 12 |
| 1.20.1 | mc/1.20.1 |
47.4.28 or newer | Loader 0.19.5 or newer |
Fabric API is not needed at run time on any version.
Strata is a client-side mod with the id strata on every loader. Players install the jar for their loader next to your mod.
Screens are written against Strata's API exactly as for any other engine, and opened from any thread:
Strata.screens().open(new SettingsScreen());The adapter shows it in a vanilla Screen in the vanilla theme, titled and narrated with the screen's title. Input Strata does not use goes on to vanilla, so Escape still closes the screen, once the screen's closeRequested agrees. Code on other threads, such as a network handler, hands its work to the client thread with Strata.uiThread().execute(...).
The jars are published to Maven Central in the group org.inspirenxe. Until 0.1.0 is released there are snapshots only, in Central's snapshot repository:
repositories {
maven {
url = uri('https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots/')
mavenContent {
snapshotsOnly()
}
}
}
dependencies {
// strata-minecraft-neoforge, -forge or -fabric for your loader
implementation 'org.inspirenxe:strata-minecraft-neoforge:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT'
compileOnly 'org.inspirenxe:strata-api:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT'
}The loader jar lists Strata's api, spi and core as run-time dependencies only, so add strata-api for compiling. On Fabric, Loom 1.18 does not remap, so use implementation, not modImplementation. A SpongeVanilla plugin takes strata-minecraft-spongevanilla as compileOnly, because players install the Strata plugin next to it and two plugin jars cannot hold the same packages.
Declare strata as a required client-side dependency in your mod metadata (neoforge.mods.toml, mods.toml, fabric.mod.json or sponge_plugins.json), so the game refuses to start without it.
| Module | What it is |
|---|---|
common |
The adapter, written against vanilla classes only. |
sponge |
The code that needs SpongeAPI, which backs Strata's causes with Sponge's. |
neoforge, forge, fabric, spongevanilla |
The mod and plugin jars, named strata-minecraft-<module> in the group org.inspirenxe. |
Building needs JDK 25. With a Strata checkout beside this one at ../Strata, the build uses it, so a change to Strata reaches the adapter at once; strataDir in gradle.properties names another checkout. Without one, the build takes strata_version from Maven Central.
git clone https://github.com/InspireNXE/Strata-Minecraft.git
cd Strata-Minecraft
./gradlew build./gradlew :neoforge:runClient, ./gradlew :forge:runClient and ./gradlew :fabric:runClient start a client with Strata loaded. SpongeVanilla has no client task, because its release jars start servers only. Strata on its own opens no screens, so you need a mod or a small test to open one.
On Windows, if Gradle fails with "Unable to establish loopback connection", point the JDK's Unix domain sockets at a local folder:
export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Djdk.net.unixdomain.tmpdir=$PWD/.gradle/udstmp"Strata's guides, reference and Javadoc are on the documentation site.
Strata-Minecraft is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE and NOTICE. It is not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft. The NeoForge, Forge, Fabric and Sponge marks belong to their projects.