How to add Valkyrien Skies to your dev environment
In this guide, we'll add Valkyrien Skies to an existing development environment or template mod.
Before you start
Make sure that you:
Have an existing Minecraft mod development environment.
It's recommended that you:
Use IntelliJ IDEA.
Do not use Eclipse, Visual Studio Code or any other IDE.
How to add Valkyrien Skies to ForgeGradle
Open your
build.gradle(Groovy) orbuild.gradle.kts(Kotlin) file.Find the
repositoriesblock, or create one if you don't have it. Add the Valkyrien Skies maven repository to therepositoriesblock. It should look like this:repositories { // ... your other repositories maven { url = 'https://maven.valkyrienskies.org' } }repositories { // ... your other repositories maven { url = uri("https://maven.valkyrienskies.org") } }Find the
dependenciesblock and add Valkyrien Skies as a dependency. It should look like this:dependencies { // ... your other dependencies implementation("2.5.0-beta.3") { transitive = false } }dependencies { // ... your other dependencies implementation("") { isTransitive = false } }
Last modified: 03 June 2026