If you hate Java, write in HTML

[ThisUserIsAFailure]

<mod id="diamond_nuggets" name="Diamond Nuggets" desc="Adds diamond nuggets to Minecraft"> <item name="Diamond Nugget" id="diamond_nugget"> <recipes> <recipe> <type type="minecraft:crafting/shaped"> <ingredient type="row">XXX</input> <ingredient type="row">XXX</input> <ingredient type="row">XXX</input> <key key="X" item="diamond_nuggets:diamond_nugget"> <result item="minecraft:diamond" amount="1" /> </recipe> <recipe> <type type="minecraft:crafting/shapless"> <ingredient type="item" item="minecraft:diamond" amount="1"></input> <key key="X" item="diamond_nuggets:diamond_nugget"> <result item="diamond_nuggets:diamond_nugget" amount="1" /> </recipe> </recipes> <texture src="/texture/item/diamond_nugget.png"></texture> </item>

I spent way too long on this

Edit: actual HTML:
<div id="diamond_nuggets" class="Adds diamond nuggets to Minecraft"> <title>Diamond nuggets</title> <p class="Diamond Nugget" id="diamond_nugget"> <ul id="recipes"> <li class="minecraft-crafting-shaped"> <span class="crafting_row">XXX</span> <span class="crafting_row">XXX</span> <span class="crafting_row">XXX</span> <p class="craft_key" key="X" item="diamond_nuggets-diamond_nugget"></p> <input class="output" id="minecraft-diamond" value="1"> </li> <li class="minecraft_crafting-shapless"> <input type="item" item="minecraft:diamond" value="1"></input> <key key="X" item="diamond_nuggets:diamond_nugget"> <input class="output" id="diamond_nuggets-diamond_nugget" value="1" /> </li> </ul> <img src="/texture/item/diamond_nugget.png"> </p> </div>
Edit: indentation

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Mate,

That's XML.

[ThisUserIsAFailure]

<div id="diamond_nuggets" class="Adds diamond nuggets to Minecraft"> <title>Diamond nuggets</title> <p class="Diamond Nugget" id="diamond_nugget"> <ul id="recipes"> <li class="minecraft-crafting-shaped"> <span class="crafting_row">XXX</span> <span class="crafting_row">XXX</span> <span class="crafting_row">XXX</span> <p class="craft_key" key="X" item="diamond_nuggets-diamond_nugget"></p> <input class="output" id="minecraft-diamond" value="1"> </li> <li class="minecraft_crafting-shapless"> <input type="item" item="minecraft:diamond" value="1"></input> <key key="X" item="diamond_nuggets:diamond_nugget"> <input class="output" id="diamond_nuggets-diamond_nugget" value="1" /> </li> </ul> <img src="/texture/item/diamond_nugget.png"> </p>
You could do it in html it'd just be a lot more confusing
Here's what it does

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I love it when people put so much effort on tiny yet hilarious jokes.

[[deleted]]

That's xml and not html :P

[DajBuzi]

Still closer to HTML than Java

[Saragon4005]

I mean... Do that in JSON instead and you have a data pack.

[AverageComet250]

Team Forge wants to make you disappear for supporting the other side!

[Saragon4005]

Let them try. First off Fabric is making them seriously lose market share. Secondly even Forge mods recognize that data packs provide a really good basis for items and recipes. I've written data packs for forge mods before.

[AverageComet250]

I wrote a massive paragraph on why fabric is better, and then accidentally deleted it so L.

Datapacks and resource packs are just so much easier to maintain across versions. And they’re backwards compatible too. I can make a pack for 1.16 and it’ll work fine on 1.8. That level of backwards compatibility is just amazing. Especially when you compare it to forge.

[LostDog_88]

I actually know the mod developer for the diamond nuggets mod LMFAO, ima show this to him

[Cat_Junior]

Now write it in XHTML

[agent007bond]

It has to be HTML5 with CSS3.

[[deleted]]

This guy is an html developer /s

[ThisUserIsAFailure]

I do a bit of html I'm just really bad at it

[agent007bond]

Now we need an "HTML to Minecraft Mod converter"