GTNH Credits

A Minecraft 1.7.10 Forge mod that adds a Credits screen to the main menu, giving GT New Horizons one official place to recognize everyone who contributed to the pack.

It is an implementation for the Centralized Credits Page #23582 proposal.

Access

• Credits button on the main menu
• ESC / Back returns to the menu

Custom Main Menu integration

Custom Main Menu 1.14.0 adds a sendIMC action type. When a button with that action is clicked, CMM fires a ActionIMCEvent on MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS. GTNH-Credits subscribes to this event and opens the Credits screen when it receives modid = "gtnhcredits" and message = "openCredits". GTNH-Credits has a compile-only dependency on CMM for ActionIMCEvent; CMM has no dependency on GTNH-Credits.

Button configuration

Add an entry to the "buttons" object in your mainmenu.json:

{
  "credits": {
    "text": "Credits",
    "posX": 0,
    "posY": -160,
    "width": 150,
    "height": 20,
    "alignment": "column_bottom",
    "action": {
      "type": "sendIMC",
      "modid": "gtnhcredits",
      "message": "openCredits"
    }
  }
}

Using a lang key for the button label is also valid:

{
  "text": "menu.gtnh.credits"
}

Disabling the vanilla button

When CMM is managing the main menu, the built-in Credits button added by this mod to the vanilla GuiMainMenu is redundant. It can be disabled in config/gtnh-credits.cfg:

[menu_button]
    # Show the Credits button in the vanilla main menu.
    enabled=false

The default is false. Set it to true to show the vanilla button regardless of whether CMM is installed.

Resource files

Credits data is driven by a credits.json for the semantic credits content and associated .lang resource files for localized display text. Both are loaded through Minecraft's standard resource manager, so they can be included as part of the mod jar or overridden by a resource pack.

credits.json

ResourceLocation: assets/gtnhcredits/credits.json

Defines the credit categories, credited persons, and roles for those categories that can be displayed in the credit screen. A category groups persons under a common heading and controls what is rendered via its class markers. A person belongs to one or more categories and may carry one or more roles.

See credits.schema.md for the full format reference.

Minimal example

{
  "category": [
    {
      "id": "dev",
      "class": [
        "detail",
        "person",
        "role"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "person": [
    {
      "name": "Alice",
      "category": "dev",
      "role": "core-dev"
    }
  ]
}

Category class markers

Value	Effect
detail	Renders the category description from the lang file; the category name is always shown as a centered title above it
person	Renders the list of persons belonging to this category, sorted alphabetically and deduplicated
role	Renders persons' role alongside their name

A single value may be given as a bare string; multiple values as an array. Unknown values are silently ignored.

Lang files

Location: assets/gtnhcredits/lang/<locale>.lang

Provides display text for categories, roles, and UI labels. All keys are optional. If no translation is provided, the raw id is used as a fallback.

Category and role ids are sanitized to form the translation key suffix: dots and hyphens are removed, runs of spaces collapse to _, and the result is lowercased. For example "Core Team" → core_team, "Core.Mod" → coremod.

Key pattern	Purpose
credits.category.<id>	Display name for a category
credits.category.<id>.detail	Description text shown when the detail class is set. Use \n to separate paragraphs.
credits.category.<id>.detail.<suffix>	Alternative: one key per paragraph, rendered in natural (numeric-aware) sort order of the suffix.
credits.person.role.<role>	Display name for a role
gui.credits.filter.hint	Placeholder text for the person filter field

The two detail forms are mutually exclusive per locale: if any detail.<suffix> key exists, the plain detail key is ignored.

GTNH Credits Editor

A standalone desktop tool for editing credits.json and the associated .lang files lives in the creditsEditor/ subproject.

Run it directly from the repository:

./gradlew :creditsEditor:run

Install it to ~/.local (overridable with -PPREFIX=...):

./gradlew :creditsEditor:install

Once installed, launch it with gtnh-credits-editor [<path>]. See the Credits Editor README for full usage, installation options, and supported path forms (directory or resource pack zip).

Build tasks

Validate credits.json

./gradlew test

Runs CreditsJsonValidationTest, which checks schema compliance, category id uniqueness, and that every person references a defined category. Runs automatically as part of check and build.

Generate schema documentation

./gradlew generateCreditsSchemaDoc

Regenerates credits.schema.md from credits.schema.json. Runs automatically as part of check and docs.

./gradlew docs   # generate all project documentation
./gradlew check  # validate + generate docs + run all checks

AI Transparency

This project uses Claude Code and other AI agents as a technical harness for planning, architecture, and code generation.

As the Software Architect and Lead Developer, I manage a team of AI agents to handle implementation and slicing. While they help with the heavy lifting, I manually review everything. I vet my own work and generated code alike because I trust my first-pass code as little as I trust AI output.

I ensure all output complies with the Software Engineering fundamentals I mastered over 40+ years in the industry. My standards are rooted in a career spanning the full IT stack from legacy mini-systems and network protocols to modern R&D and Java development.

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I am accountable for every line of code associated with my name in the git blame. I do not use "co-authored-by" metadata for AI agents because tools do not take responsibility; Engineers do.

If the code is incorrect, has bugs, or does not act as intended, the responsibility is mine. I put my real name on this work and take full ownership of it within the limits of the MIT License. This project is open-source; if you find an issue, please open a ticket or propose a change.