Better Player Model

Calls something that is on Kiln's roadmap. Parts of it may already run.

Evidence

Ran on Kiln's test stand (2026-11-04): YesSteveModelFabric did not start: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/logging/log4j/LogManager; YesSteveModelFabricClient did not start: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/fabricmc/fabric/api/client/event/lifecycle/v1/ClientEntityEvents.

What it needs from Kiln

Mixin
com.mojang.authlib.GameProfile
com.mojang.blaze3d.platform.InputConstants.Key
com.mojang.blaze3d.platform.NativeImage
com.mojang.blaze3d.platform.Window
com.mojang.blaze3d.systems.RenderSystem
com.mojang.blaze3d.systems.SamplerCache
com.mojang.blaze3d.vertex.DefaultVertexFormat
com.mojang.blaze3d.vertex.PoseStack
com.mojang.blaze3d.vertex.PoseStack.Pose
com.mojang.blaze3d.vertex.VertexConsumer
com.mojang.math.Axis
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.GpuFormat
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.buffers.GpuBuffer
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.buffers.GpuBufferSlice
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.buffers.GpuBufferSlice.MappedView
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.commands.CommandEncoder
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.commands.RenderPass
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.device.GpuDevice
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.BindGroupLayout
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.BindGroupLayout.Builder
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.BlendFunction
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.ColorTargetState
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.CompiledRenderPipeline
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.DepthStencilState
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.IndexType
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.PrimitiveTopology
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.RenderPipeline
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.RenderPipeline.Builder
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.RenderPipeline.Snippet
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.UniformType
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.textures.FilterMode
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.textures.GpuSampler
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.textures.GpuTexture
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.textures.GpuTextureView
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.vertex.VertexFormat
com.mojang.renderpearl.api.vertex.VertexFormat.Builder
com.mojang.renderpearl.backend.opengl.GlProgram
com.mojang.renderpearl.backend.opengl.GlRenderPipeline
com.mojang.renderpearl.backend.opengl.GlSampler
com.mojang.renderpearl.backend.opengl.GlStateManager
and 81 more

On the roadmap: Minecraft's libraries and client API (0.2), Code next to data (0.3), Mixin (0.5)

In the author's words

Play as any character with custom 3D player models and animations, fully synced in multiplayer.

Scan

Scanned on 4 November 2026 against Kiln 0.2.0, file better-player-model-26.3-1.1.5.jar. The scan reads the mod's classes; it does not run them.

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