update-to-301a6ca.md

Updating to commit 301a6ca

If you don't care to check the commit and manually apply everything, here are all the changes we made in that commit:

build.gradle.kts

Updates blossom to 1.3.2 (what this template uses to automatically replace mentions of mod_id, mod_ver, etc. with the values in gradle.properties. unofficial Polyfrost update fixing Kotlin 1.9.x support), and removes unnecessary preprocessor variable (it's already included by PGT)

gradle.properties

Updates polyfrost.defaults.loom (PGT's "loom revision," aka what mappings the mod uses) to 3. This won't really affect anyone outside of modern version users, but this is just good practice.

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

Updates Gradle to 8.8.

IMPORTANT!!

This Gradle update is why some other gradle-related files in this project (gradle-wrapper.jar, gradlew and gradlew.bat) changed. Obviously, it would be a bit inconvenient to apply the changes to those files manually, so here's what you do to properly apply the new changes:

1. Apply the rest of the changes in this document
2. Temporarily change gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties to gradle 8.6 or 8.7. This is necessary because in order for Loom to function, 8.6 or higher is required.
3. Reload the Gradle project
4. Run gradle wrapper --gradle-version 8.8 in Terminal or through your IDE (IntelliJ users can run this through the following method:)
5. Done!

root.gradle.kts

Updates shadow (what Gradle uses to shade dependencies) to 8.1.1.

settings.gradle.kts

Updates PGT to 0.6.2 (which updates loom), and comments out 1.12.2 support in case people don't want it.

src/resources/mcmod.info

Makes sure the mcversion field in mcmod.info is updated to the actual Minecraft version (in this case, either 1.8.9 or 1.12.2)