Railroad IDE

An IDE focused on Minecraft mod development, built by the community for the community.

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Repository Stats

Total Commits

674

Open Issues

38

Latest Release

7 months ago (pre-release)

Oct 21, 2025, 07:02 PM UTC (pre-release)

Last Updated

3 weeks ago

May 21, 2026, 05:36 PM UTC

Stars

67

Languages

Java 85% • CSS 15%

Contributors

Railroad Ecosystem

Beyond the main IDE, Railroad-Team maintains companion repositories across plugins, tooling, and supporting infrastructure.

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RailroadPluginAPI

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Plugin API surface for extending Railroad with custom integrations and tooling.

0 stars3 months ago
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RailroadDocs

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Central documentation repository for user guides, setup flows, and ecosystem references.

0 stars8 months ago
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Switchboard

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A metadata service that provides version catalogs for Railroad IDE, including Minecraft, Fabric, and NeoForge version data.

0 stars7 months ago
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MinecraftDiffAnalyzer

A program that can be used to diff 2 Minecraft versions and determine the actual changes.

0 stars4 weeks ago
ProjectTemplates

Railroad's repository for project templates.

0 stars10 months ago
Themes

All of the official themes for Railroad IDE.

0 stars11 months ago

Development Streams

Development Streams

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Primary Features

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Guided Mod Project Creation

Railroad is built to get new Minecraft mod projects moving quickly, with setup flows that understand the modding platforms you are actually targeting.

  • 1Guided project creation for Forge, Fabric, and NeoForge mods
  • 2Version-aware setup that fits the wider Railroad metadata tooling
  • 3Less manual bootstrapping before real development starts
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Purpose-Built Asset and Data Editors

A large part of Minecraft modding lives outside plain Java files. Railroad brings common asset and data workflows into the IDE so iteration is faster and more visual.

  • 1In-IDE texture and model editors for quick asset iteration
  • 2Structure and NBT editors with live previews
  • 3JSON authoring helpers for recipes, loot tables, biomes, and other data-driven content
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Debugging and Code Inspections for Mods

Railroad focuses on code and debugging workflows that general-purpose editors do not understand, especially when working with Minecraft-specific conventions and mixin-heavy projects.

  • 1Mixin debugging with inline mixin visualisation
  • 2Modding-aware code inspections such as inconsistent modid detection
  • 3Tooling aimed at catching project-specific issues earlier in development
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Visual Tools for Screens and Sound

Railroad also covers the more visual parts of mod development with tools that help you iterate on interfaces and audio without constantly leaving the IDE.

  • 1Visual GUI creator tailored for Minecraft screens
  • 2Audio visualizer to inspect and balance custom sound assets
  • 3More direct feedback for content that is awkward to tune in code alone

Project Roadmap

Live Roadmap

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💡 Future Plans

27

Screen & Gui builder

#54

Refine Keybinds system

#51

Custom index manager for plugins, themes, templates and more

#65

License Summary

#66

In-IDE Code Examples

#52

Open last opened project

#93
FrostyFlippper

Debug Mode

#97

Auto Update

#67

NBT Editor

#68

Codec Generator

#69

Mixin Debugging

#70

Model Viewer

#71

Model Editor

#72

Structure Viewer

#73

Structure Editor

#74

Region Viewer (and maybe editor)

#75

Minecraft Live Code Execution

#91

Minecraft Version Diff Inspections (with AI maybe)

#119

Load IntelliJ's run configurations as Railroad Run Configurations

#121

Load Eclipse's run configurations as Railroad Run Configurations

#122

Bottom Status Bar

#123

IDE View Mode Toggle

#124

Persistent IDE layout

#125

Tab Registry

#126

File Search

#127

Find/Replace in File

#128

Find/Replace In Files

#129

💬 Planning Phase

4

Use a project templating system for project creation

#80

Icon Packs

#85

Define a scripting language BNF that we can use for Project Templating

#98

Project Process Manager

#106

‼️ To-Do

2

RTL Language Support

#86

Create a simple CollageCanvas system, where elements can be created, …

#56

📈 In-Progress

3

Semantic Syntax Tree

#63
DaRealTurtyWurty

Fix NeoForge and Forge Project Onboarding

#82

Texture Editor

#102

👀 In Review

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✅ Done

15

Rewrite plugin system

#81

VCS System

#77
DaRealTurtyWurty

Redesign all the theme-related UI components

#92

Gradle Tab

#95
DaRealTurtyWurty

Java Process Builder

#108
DaRealTurtyWurty

Run Configurations

#76
DaRealTurtyWurty

JDK Detection

#87
Cy4Shot

Markdown Editor/Renderer

#94
FrostyFlippper

Bootstrapper / Loading system

#108

Create a window manager

#47
DaRealTurtyWurty

Added new language localization: Russian (ru-ru)

#64

Suggestion: A security policy file

#84

Dynamic Language System

#78

Project Nature in Projects List

#79
subha0319

Add dynamic language file register loader

#89
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