Hey there,

I just started a new mod and when I lauched it for the first time none of my items were loading. I did some troubleshooting and eventually I found out that the constructor of my main mod file (the one with the Mod annotation) is not being called at all!

I have checked the mods.toml file but its all correct. The annotations are correct too. In minecraft the mod shows up as loaded. But as I said, none of the items are registered since the constructor was never called.

 

@Mod("witchcraftmod")
@EventBusSubscriber(modid = "witchcraftmod", bus = Bus.MOD)
public class WitchcraftMod {
    public static final String MOD_ID = "witchcraftmod"; 
    public static WitchcraftMod instance;
    
    public WitchcraftMod() {

        System.exit(0); //<---- I put this here to test if the constructor is called, but since minecraft starts normally Im assuming its not

        
    	final IEventBus modEventBus = FMLJavaModLoadingContext.get().getModEventBus();
        modEventBus.addListener(this::setup);
        modEventBus.addListener(this::doClientStuff);
        
        ModItems.ITEMS.register(modEventBus);
        ModBlocks.BLOCKS.register(modEventBus);
        Features.FEATURES.register(modEventBus);
        
        MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(this);

        instance = this;
    }

Does anyone know what I shoulkd do to troubleshoot this further or maybe even how to solve this issue?

Please show your logs, and use the debugger instead of just adding exit methods in places.

This probably isn't part of the issue, but it also looks like you don't need that EventBusSubscriber annotation since you're using IEventBus#addListener.