Lbarto12

@MFMods @hasunemiku2015 Thank you both for helping me, but I am apparently just dumb. The solution was to upgrade intellij. Since I've been writing Java code for a few years and I downloaded the IDE a long time ago. This is how I figured it out: I was getting very tired of the problem, so I figured I'd try Fabric and see what it was about, but when I tried to launch the game in Fabric I got a more comprehensive error telling me the gradle build wasn't compatible with my version of Intellij (which I find very strange, but such is life). With this in mind I updated and retried forge, and that was apparently all it took. Thank you for your patience, wish me luck!

@MFMods I tried what you have suggested and the error is still there... any other ideas?

@MFMods I appreciate you replying! unfortunately, this is the exact configuration I have. Nothing seems to work, which sucks cause I really want to learn how to mod

So I've just started to try modding minecraft, and I've done a lot of java programming before this, but I'm getting stopped by what I think are version errors. I tried setting up runClient with java 8 (following a tutorial for an older version of minecraft), but got a major.minor version error. So after some research I found that that 1.18.x uses Java 17, so I installed the JDK and switched it out in the project settings page, but now I get a new error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException: Unable to make public static void cpw.mods.bootstraplauncher.BootstrapLauncher.main(java.lang.String[]) accessible: module cpw.mods.bootstraplauncher does not "exports cpw.mods.bootstraplauncher" to unnamed module @1175e2db at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkCanSetAccessible(AccessibleObject.java:354) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkCanSetAccessible(AccessibleObject.java:297) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.checkCanSetAccessible(Method.java:199) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.setAccessible(Method.java:193) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMainV2.main(AppMainV2.java:127) and I've searched around but can't seem to find a thread discussing this problem (maybe I'm just blind). I'm not sure how a JDK version change would make the main function inaccessible (unless it's a completely new error that has nothing to do with version). Any help / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!