- Get a version of gradle that's at least 4.10.2
git clone <repo>git branch -rto see available branchesgit checkout fabric_1_16to select your branchgit submodule initgit submodule update/path/to/gradle build
Because I created several mods, which have some things in common, the structure of my mods is a bit different from the example mod that Fabric or Forge provide.
In particular, I don't want the gradle files to be duplicated into every single mod repository, and some common files that contain version info for Fabric, its tools, and some library mods, have been moved to a (common) submodule.
You need a gradle installation which does not come with the mod. At the time of this writing, the version of gradle used is 4.10.2. Gradle 6.5 has been tested to work too, so versions between those should as well.
You might already have gradle installed, especially when you're running Linux - if so, make sure it's new enough. For example, Ubuntu 18.04 has gradle 4.4.1 which is not. Run gradle -version to check.
If you have the Fabric example mod installed, you can use the gradle installation from there. Else, download a release from https://gradle.org/releases/ (binary only is sufficient) and unpack it somewhere.
All my mods use the same repository of files that match MineCraft, Fabric, and common libraries versions. This is included in the mod repository as a Versionfiles submodule, and you should get it when cloning the repo. Run git submodule init, then git submodule update to get the current version of the files. Do this after selecting your branch, see below.
There are branches for the various versions of MineCraft that are supported by the mod. Run git branch -r to see which branches there are, then git checkout branchname without the origin/ part, for example, git checkout fabric_1_16.