Colorful Anvils Unoffical Port

v2.8.0

Minecraft 26.3 support

There's a new jar for 26.3. Nothing about how you use the mod changed, it just works on the new version now.

Important: the wrong jar could crash your game

This is the big fix. The 1.21.8 jar claimed it supported "1.21.8 and anything newer." The trouble is Fabric reads version numbers as numbers, so 26.1, 26.2 and 26.3 all counted as "newer than 1.21.8." That jar would happily load on a 26.x server and then blow up, because 26.x changed how Minecraft's internals are named and old jars simply can't run there. The 26.2 jar had the same problem on 26.3.

Every jar is now pinned to the versions it was actually built and tested for. Grab the wrong one and Fabric tells you at startup with a clear message instead of crashing you mid-game.

Item names with angle brackets aren't mangled anymore

Naming something <blueprint> or <redstone rig used to confuse the mod. It was scanning for color tags by looking for <red and <blue without checking whether the tag was ever actually closed, so ordinary names got dragged into the formatter for no reason. Now it wants a proper complete tag before it steps in, and normal names containing < are left alone.

Gradients with a | inside no longer break in half

If you wrote <gradient:#ff0000:#00ff00>Epic|Blade</gradient>, the mod split it at the | because that's the lore separator. You'd end up with a name ending in a broken tag and a lore line starting with a stray </gradient>.

Now | only splits off lore when it's actually outside a gradient or rainbow, so you can use it inside one as regular text. Real lore still works exactly as before, including on the same item.

/colorfulanvils colors got a proper layout

The reference chart added in 2.7.0 came out as an unreadable brick. Two reasons: the rows were wider than the chat window so they wrapped and piled on top of each other, and the &k magic demo was sitting in the middle of the row scrambling itself every frame, which made everything after it look corrupted.

The chart is now a clean two-column grid with real section headers for colors, styles, hex, tags and lore. The scrambling magic example moved to the very end where it can't bleed into anything. Every line was measured against the chat width, so the whole chart fits on one screen without wrapping.

Supports 26.3 Needs Fabric API. Text Placeholder API and Permissions API are bundled, so nothing extra to download.