Hi,
On 1.18, when I add dependency to my build.gradle, everything seem to work fine. IDE properly indexes library, no errors. Just when I run runClient or runServer task, after a while it throws me error:

[13:30:15] [modloading-worker-0/ERROR] [ne.mi.fm.ja.FMLModContainer/LOADING]: Failed to create mod instance. ModID: polnamod, class net.matez.polna.setup.PolnaMod
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: null
	at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[?:?] {}
	at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:77) ~[?:?] {}
	at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[?:?] {}
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:499) ~[?:?] {}
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:480) ~[?:?] {}
	at net.minecraftforge.fml.javafmlmod.FMLModContainer.constructMod(FMLModContainer.java:81) ~[javafmllanguage-1.18-38.0.16.jar%2378!:?] {}
	at net.minecraftforge.fml.ModContainer.lambda$buildTransitionHandler$4(ModContainer.java:120) ~[fmlcore-1.18-38.0.16.jar%2380!:?] {}
	at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$AsyncRun.run(CompletableFuture.java:1804) [?:?] {}
	at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$AsyncRun.exec(CompletableFuture.java:1796) [?:?] {}
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:373) [?:?] {}
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.topLevelExec(ForkJoinPool.java:1182) [?:?] {}
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.scan(ForkJoinPool.java:1655) [?:?] {}
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1622) [?:?] {}
	at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:165) [?:?] {}
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/impl/nio/client/HttpAsyncClients
	at net.matez.polna.util.HTTPClient.<init>(HTTPClient.java:31) ~[%2381!:?] {re:classloading}
	at net.matez.polna.setup.PolnaMod.<init>(PolnaMod.java:39) ~[%2381!:?] {re:classloading}
	... 14 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.HttpAsyncClients
	at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641) ~[?:?] {}
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520) ~[?:?] {}
	at cpw.mods.cl.ModuleClassLoader.loadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:132) ~[securejarhandler-0.9.54.jar:?] {}
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520) ~[?:?] {}
	at cpw.mods.cl.ModuleClassLoader.loadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:132) ~[securejarhandler-0.9.54.jar:?] {}
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520) ~[?:?] {}
	at net.matez.polna.util.HTTPClient.<init>(HTTPClient.java:31) ~[%2381!:?] {re:classloading}
	at net.matez.polna.setup.PolnaMod.<init>(PolnaMod.java:39) ~[%2381!:?] {re:classloading}
	... 14 more

My implementation script:

dependencies {
    minecraft 'net.minecraftforge:forge:1.18-38.0.16'
    implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.9'
    implementation 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpasyncclient:4.1.4'
    implementation 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4.1.5'
}

Forge version: 1.18-38.0.16
Gradlew version: 7.3
JDK: Oracle OpenJDK 17

Full logs: https://gist.github.com/80559b62f58c68ca7c0d96c84c3077e4
Crashing class: https://gist.github.com/b849e7b8128d07ba865e258aaeb15abd

I was testing the same thing in a newly created Gradle project and it worked fine.

Any clue why is this happening?

Bump

Still not works, with different dependencies (tried now "reflections") on a fresh MDK installation. Any ideas again? I can't move on with my project without adding external dependencies.