SOLVED....

[InspectorCaracal]

Original post saved for posterity, but it's obviously been too long since I did MC modding, haha...

After banging my head on this for two days and finally posting here, I was digging through the docs again aaaand was reminded that you can't build it in the IDE; `gradlew build` is working as expected, so this is a non-issue.

 

I'm trying to update my mod to 1.18.2 and I'm being completely stalled by the set-up process apparently generating incorrect files.

After doing `gradlew genEclipseRuns` and opening the project (fresh or otherwise) in Eclipse, I get these errors:

Archive for required library: '.gradle/caches/forge_gradle/mcp_repo/de/oceanlabs/mcp/mcp_config/1.18.2-20220404.173914/joined/mergeMappings/output.jar' in project 'betterbeekeeping' cannot be read or is not a valid ZIP file
Archive for required library: '.gradle/caches/forge_gradle/minecraft_user_repo/mcp/1.18.2-20220404.173914/joined/mergeMappings/output.jar' in project 'betterbeekeeping' cannot be read or is not a valid ZIP file

Inspecting the file itself confirmed that it is just a text file that's been renamed to a .jar suffix.

Is this expected? How do I fix this so that Eclipse can build the project? Everything I've tried so far has given the exact same result.

Edited April 16 by InspectorCaracal
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