Distant Horizons

Evidence

Ran on Kiln's test stand (2026-11-04): FabricMain did not start: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/fabricmc/api/DedicatedServerModInitializer.

What it needs from Kiln

• an access widener
• Mixin
• com.mojang.blaze3d.buffers.Std140Builder
• com.mojang.blaze3d.buffers.Std140SizeCalculator
• com.mojang.blaze3d.pipeline.RenderTarget
• com.mojang.blaze3d.platform.NativeImage
• com.mojang.blaze3d.systems.RenderSystem
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.GpuFormat
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.buffers.GpuBuffer
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.buffers.GpuBufferSlice
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.commands.CommandEncoder
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.commands.RenderPass
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.device.DeviceInfo
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.device.GpuDevice
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.BindGroupLayout
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.BindGroupLayout.Builder
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.BlendFactor
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.BlendFunction
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.ColorTargetState
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.CompareOp
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.DepthStencilState
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.IndexType
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.pipeline.PolygonMode
• 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.AddressMode
• com.mojang.renderpearl.api.textures.FilterMode
• 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.api.vertex.VertexFormatElement
• com.mojang.renderpearl.backend.opengl.GlStateManager
• com.mojang.renderpearl.backend.opengl.GlTexture
• io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf
• io.netty.buffer.ByteBufUtil
• io.netty.buffer.CompositeByteBuf
• io.netty.buffer.Unpooled
• net.fabricmc.api.DedicatedServerModInitializer
• and 80 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

Massively increase render distance without harming performance.

Scan

Scanned on 4 November 2026 against Kiln 0.2.0, file DistantHorizons-3.3.4-26.3-fabric-neoforge.jar. The scan reads the mod's classes; it does not run them.