Polestar

Evidence

Ran on Kiln's test stand (2026-11-04): TrueNorthClient did not start: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/minecraft/network/chat/FormattedText.

What it needs from Kiln

• net.minecraft.client.Camera
• net.minecraft.client.CameraType
• net.minecraft.client.Options
• net.minecraft.client.gui.Hud
• net.minecraft.client.renderer.GameRenderer
• net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderPipelines
• net.minecraft.client.resources.sounds.SimpleSoundInstance
• net.minecraft.client.sounds.SoundEngine
• net.minecraft.client.sounds.SoundEngine.PlayResult
• net.minecraft.client.sounds.SoundManager
• net.minecraft.world.attribute.EnvironmentAttributeProbe
• net.minecraft.world.attribute.EnvironmentAttributes
• net.minecraft.world.effect.MobEffects
• net.minecraft.world.level.ClipContext
• net.minecraft.world.level.ClipContext.Block
• net.minecraft.world.level.ClipContext.Fluid
• net.minecraft.world.level.material.FogType
• net.minecraft.world.phys.HitResult.Type
• net.minecraft.network.chat.FormattedText
• Minecraft.gameRenderer
• Minecraft.getCameraEntity()
• Minecraft.getSoundManager()
• Minecraft.options
• Font.width()
• Gui.hud
• GuiGraphicsExtractor.blit()
• GuiGraphicsExtractor.pose()
• ClientLevel.clip()
• ClientLevel.getMaxY()
• ClientLevel.getRainLevel()
• ClientLevel.getThunderLevel()
• LocalPlayer.hasEffect()
• LocalPlayer.isAlive()
• LocalPlayer.isScoping()
• BlockHitResult.getType()
• Vec3.distanceToSqr()

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

In the author's words

Find the North Star through a vanilla Spyglass and use it to navigate without coordinates or a minimap.

Scan

Scanned on 4 November 2026 against Kiln 0.2.0, file polestar-26.3-fabric-1.1.0.jar. The scan reads the mod's classes; it does not run them.