Can I view source code without the source?

[StitchNChill]

Friend of mine gave me his mod distributable (client side) and we've been playing on a mod he made. His hard drive went bad and lost all data, so he lost the source code. I was wondering if there was a way using just the client side distributable that I could recreate the source from it. If so, could you link an explanation on how to? 

 

Inb4 "why no repository"

[StitchNChill]

BTW if we could only pull even just the textures, that'd be a huge plus 

[X Squishling X]

Do you mean the jar file?  It's quite easy to unpack it to get the textures, and you can use a java decompiler to get the code back, although it may not be exactly how it was originally written.

Edited August 12, 2019 by X Squishling X
Spelling

[X Squishling X]

If you rename the jar file to name.zip then you can unpack it into a folder.

[StitchNChill]

Perfect, thanks so much