Entity View Distance

Evidence

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

What it needs from Kiln

• an access widener
• Mixin
• net.fabricmc.api.DedicatedServerModInitializer
• net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.event.lifecycle.v1.ClientLifecycleEvents
• net.fabricmc.fabric.api.client.event.lifecycle.v1.ClientLifecycleEvents.ClientStarted
• 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.registry.RegistryEntryAddedCallback
• net.fabricmc.fabric.api.util.TriState
• net.fabricmc.loader.api.ModContainer
• net.fabricmc.loader.api.Version
• net.fabricmc.loader.api.entrypoint.PreLaunchEntrypoint
• net.fabricmc.loader.api.metadata.ModMetadata
• net.minecraft.commands.CommandSourceStack
• net.minecraft.commands.Commands
• net.minecraft.commands.Commands.CommandSelection
• net.minecraft.commands.SharedSuggestionProvider
• net.minecraft.commands.arguments.IdentifierArgument
• net.minecraft.network.chat.Style
• net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer
• net.minecraft.server.level.ChunkMap
• net.minecraft.server.level.ChunkMap.TrackedEntity
• net.minecraft.server.level.ServerChunkCache
• net.minecraft.server.permissions.Permission
• net.minecraft.server.permissions.Permission.HasCommandLevel
• net.minecraft.server.permissions.PermissionLevel
• net.minecraft.server.permissions.PermissionSet
• net.minecraft.util.Mth
• net.minecraft.world.entity.EntityType
• org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils
• org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager
• org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger
• Int2ObjectMap.Entry.getValue()
• Object2IntMap.Entry.getKey()
• FabricLoader.getModContainer()
• FabricLoader.isModLoaded()
• DefaultedRegistry.iterator()
• BuiltInRegistries.ENTITY_TYPE
• Component.copy()
• MutableComponent.setStyle()
• Identifier.toShortLanguageKey()
• and 6 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

This mods allows more precise manipulation of entity view distance on client and server

Scan

Scanned on 4 November 2026 against Kiln 0.2.0, file entity-view-distance-1.9.0+26.2.jar. The scan reads the mod's classes; it does not run them.