Add Option to Disable Lunar’s Base Mods

[austere oak]

Right now, Lunar Client always injects its own base mods (genesis, lunar-fabric-mixins, lunar-sodium-mixins, etc.) at startup.
This causes major conflicts with Fabric mods (AsyncParticles, LambDynamicLights, Sodium/Iris, etc.) because Lunar’s mixins override core classes.

Request:
Add a **launcher setting **(or in-game toggle) that lets players **disable Lunar’s base mods **and just run:

• Vanilla
• Or Fabric Loader with only the mods in /mods/

Why:

• Prevents mixin crashes with community Fabric mods.
• Lets players use Lunar as a launcher without being forced into Lunar’s forks.
• Expands compatibility with popular Hypixel/Fabric modpacks.

Proposed Implementation:
A simple “Vanilla/Fabric Mode” toggle in the launcher that skips injecting:

--ichorClassPath
--ichorExternalFiles

and doesn’t load the jars from .lunarclient/offline/multiver/.

This would give users the freedom of choice while staying on Lunar with all Lunar mods, allowing me to use the mods I want without conflicts, since it doesn’t force any unwanted mods on me, and everything works together seamlessly.

[outer zinc]

good idea 😄

[misty wave]

you can already launch vanilla, fabric, forge, quilt and neoforge without lunars built in mods from the vanilla category of the launcher

[austere oak]

i need my mods

[misty wave]

the vanilla category in the lunar launcher supports mods it just doesnt have lunars custom mods

[austere oak]

u mean this no?

if yes, i will try it out.

[misty wave]

thats not the vanilla category
look in the top left of the version list in the launcher

[austere oak]

ahh

does that have lunar mods

[misty wave]

the point of the vanilla category is to launch without lunars mods

[austere oak]

buddy, i dont think u read the full message i typed

[outer zinc]

he wants that u can disable mixins

[austere oak]

im talking about base mods loaded in from multiver

[outer zinc]

so u can have support for other mods that conflict with each other

[austere oak]

not lunar mods like

these

[misty wave]

well it has to use those additional custom mods if you want to use lunar features so thats not really possible
you can choose between lunar features and no lunar features

[outer zinc]

no that isn't a mixin tho

[austere oak]

💀

[outer zinc]

mixin's overwrite mojang's code

[austere oak]

its some child who doesnt know what he's talking about

[outer zinc]

so u can change mojang's code easily said

[misty wave]

ik what mixins are and well lunar has to use those to work properly

[outer zinc]

who says that?

cuz maybe there are some mixins that help with fps for example

[austere oak]

read the original again , and try to understand it before u talk full crap

[misty wave]

you listed lambdynamiclights, sodium and iris as examples but those mods already work (idk about async particles)
then you ask for “Vanilla” and “Fabric Loader with only the mods in /mods/“
this is how the vanilla category works

[austere oak]

lunar downloads a set of base mods

in fabric. these mods are old, and not compatible with my mods what require their never version

u cant turn it off. this is what this suggestion is about

even if u delete them, they download back lunar only loads these, even if u have the newest in the folder.

[misty wave]

1. i compared some of the mods that are automatically downloaded with the version on modrinth some time ago and they had the same checksum so it cant be modified
2. if you add newer versions of those mods into the mod list it will just work (worked for me on 1.20.1, 1.21.0, 1.21.1 and 1.21.4)
3. making it possible to disable the default fabric mods added by lunar was already suggested and is possible if you use the modpacks category for 1.21.8 (idk if they changed that)

[outer zinc]

it's been so long since ive used lunar i recently started using it again there's added a lot lol ( I dislike the ads tho 😭 )

bit random and not on topic 😭 but that doesnt matter lol

[austere oak]

1. it was working for me "some time ago"
2. yeah, i was using it that way but they updated something and now it doesnt. cuz of

--ichorExternalFiles

3. back to 2.nd

but lemme make it easier

for u to understand

[outer zinc]

i thought u were lusing linux for a sec 😭 cuz ur explorer is darker

using

[austere oak]

win 11

[outer zinc]

why is it so dark?

[austere oak]

its like transparent

[outer zinc]

oh yea i see

looks cool

[misty wave]

1. i just compared one of the sodium files lunar downloads by default to the one from modrinth and it has the exact same sha256 checksum so its not modified
2. you can report mod incompatibilities in #📩︱create-ticket
3. yes the mods appear again however you should be able to update them by adding a newer version and then it will just ignore the old version because of how fabric works

[austere oak]

i have the newest version in the mods.

i already opened ticket 4 days no asnwer, those who assigned it to are playing games

[misty wave]

maybe there is some incompatibility with sodium 0.7 on lunar 1.21.6

[austere oak]

all of these are older version. its not just sodium

modmenu 15.0.0 is already fully out

placeholderapi is 2.7.2 already out

etc...

[outer zinc]

they prob gotta discuss

[austere oak]

i managed to fix it by removing mods that have compability check with these but if i had more it would've been a issue

[misty wave]

then it should just work if you add the newer versions of the mods

[austere oak]

💀

[outer zinc]

but yea almost every mod i tried doesnt have lunar support lol

[austere oak]

i recommend u glasses

[outer zinc]

that's mean 🙁

[austere oak]

not u. him

[misty wave]

updating the mods worked for me so idk
it works on 1.20.1, 1.21.0, 1.21.1 and 1.21.4 and i didnt really try other versions

[austere oak]

i have the lastest mods

[outer zinc]

ik but still lol

[austere oak]

and it downloads older shit

they have to fix it

[outer zinc]

yea i agree they should let u use the newer fabric api

[austere oak]

or add a option to disable base mods from loading in

[outer zinc]

but couldn't that disable lunar's mods?

[outer zinc]

cuz they use the older api or smth

[misty wave]

yeah it downloads the older mods because they are listed in some file but you can just ignore those because fabric should only load the newer of the 2 versions

[austere oak]

yeah, well. it doesnt

as u can see in the vid

i tried every troubleshoot method u can think of

nothing helped. it just kept loading older version

[misty wave]

try disabling all mods besides the ones you updated and then check the fabric mod menu to see what version it loaded, it should show the new version you added

[austere oak]

tried. they load the old

[misty wave]

well adding an option to disable the default fabric mods downloaded by lunar was already suggested

[austere oak]

i mean. now its a issue of mod conflict. not just a random suggestion

https://support.lunarclient.com/support/solutions/articles/60000752051-third-party-mods#:~:text=We chose this approach%2C rather,not match what we expect.

u talk about this i think. and yeah, it worked for me. but now it doesnt

probably Checksum and Integrity Failure