Hi,

I'm trying to add json file for the mod so it informs the user about updates.

But I don't really know what is the right format for it. Documentation seems to be outdated or it doesn't work for some reason. https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gettingstarted/autoupdate/

 

Also while trying out different formats for that json, Something (gradle? forge?) cached the last result of the json-file and won't fetch it again, how you disable this caching while developing?

 

Should similar format work than what forge is using for checking updates?

https://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/promotions_slim.json

there is also this version of the json:

https://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/promotions.json

 

 

ok figured it out.

format is (like the slim version in forge, maybe the other one works too, but this is fine for me):

 

{
  "homepage": "<url to mod file page>",
  "promos": {
    "<mc version>-latest": "<mod version>",
    "<mc version>-recommended": "<mod version>"
  }
}

 

And I had little bit trouble with gist-file but figured it out also. The link to the update file needs to be specific so it's getting the latest one. This is where I thought it was caching the file.

mods.toml:

...
updateJSONURL="gist.githubusercontent.com/[gist username]/[gist ID]/raw/"
...

Do not include commit id with it. Also filename is not required and in my case it fetched old version for some reason if I put it there.