Distant Friends

Evidence

Ran on Kiln's test stand (2026-11-04): DistantFriendsFabric did not start: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/fabricmc/fabric/api/attachment/v1/AttachmentRegistry.

What it needs from Kiln

• an access widener
• Mixin
• net.fabricmc.fabric.api.attachment.v1.AttachmentRegistry
• net.fabricmc.fabric.api.command.v2.CommandRegistrationCallback
• net.fabricmc.fabric.api.event.lifecycle.v1.ServerLifecycleEvents
• net.fabricmc.fabric.api.event.lifecycle.v1.ServerLifecycleEvents.ServerStarted
• net.fabricmc.fabric.api.event.lifecycle.v1.ServerLifecycleEvents.ServerStopped
• net.fabricmc.fabric.api.event.player.AttackEntityCallback
• net.minecraft.commands.CommandSourceStack
• net.minecraft.commands.Commands
• net.minecraft.commands.Commands.CommandSelection
• net.minecraft.commands.arguments.EntityAnchorArgument
• net.minecraft.commands.arguments.EntityAnchorArgument.Anchor
• net.minecraft.commands.arguments.coordinates.Vec3Argument
• net.minecraft.core.ClientAsset
• net.minecraft.core.ClientAsset.ResourceTexture
• net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer
• net.minecraft.server.players.PlayerList
• net.minecraft.server.players.UserWhiteList
• net.minecraft.world.entity.EntityReference
• net.minecraft.world.entity.EntitySpawnReason
• net.minecraft.world.entity.EntityType
• net.minecraft.world.entity.EntityTypes
• net.minecraft.world.entity.Pose
• net.minecraft.world.entity.ai.targeting.TargetingConditions
• net.minecraft.world.entity.decoration.Mannequin
• net.minecraft.world.entity.player.PlayerModelType
• net.minecraft.world.entity.player.PlayerSkin
• net.minecraft.world.entity.player.PlayerSkin.Patch
• net.minecraft.world.item.component.ResolvableProfile
• net.minecraft.world.item.component.ResolvableProfile.Dynamic
• net.minecraft.world.phys.AABB
• org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.Pair
• BlockPos.containing()
• Identifier.tryParse()
• ServerLevel.addFreshEntityWithPassengers()
• ServerLevel.broadcastEntityEvent()
• ServerLevel.getNearbyPlayers()
• ServerLevel.getNearestPlayer()
• Player.position()
• Items.BOW
• Items.CROSSBOW
• and 31 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

Player like mobs that look at you from a distance

Scan

Scanned on 4 November 2026 against Kiln 0.2.0, file DistantFriends-fabric-26.3-0.17.0.jar. The scan reads the mod's classes; it does not run them.