Hotbars+ and 1.17

[VideoGameSmash12]

This is just a quick announcement about the state of Hotbars+ and 1.17.

As of this post, I have no plans to update the mod to 1.17 at this time due to some terrible decisions unfortunate compatibility issues in regards to Java 16 and Gradle. I have not been successful in getting Gradle to behave with the forced Java 16 bump that it has.

Until I can figure out some way to get Gradle to cooperate and behave properly on Java 16, I will not be targeting 1.17+. In addition, attempting to run the current versions of Hotbars+ on 1.17 will result in a game crash upon opening your inventory screen due to some missing classes that 1.16.5 has but 1.17 doesn't.

I will make another announcement when I do manage to get the mod to run and compile properly.

[VideoGameSmash12]

Right, so good news. I got it to play somewhat nicely with Gradle. However, it took me a while to figure out a solution to a problem I was getting in 1.17 that I wasn't in 1.16.5. After changing how Minecraft gets the hotbar file data to redirect to a variable in the mod, I've managed to get the core of the mod to work properly with 1.17.

While this is a big step forward in terms of 1.17 support, I will continue to target 1.16.5 exclusively until I've figured out a way to support 1.16.5 and 1.17 at the same time.