Solder Packer

Solder Packer is my temporary solution to a temporary time consuming task. I frequently make Minecraft modpacks that I share with my friends, and distributing them is a pain. So years ago, I started to use the Technic Launcher to make things easier.

Fast forward to current day, I'm still using Technic. I self-host almost everything and I noticed that using ZIP files to distribute the modpacks was taking a ton of bandwidth. Thankfully, Technic created a solution for this. Solder.

Solder is a kind of modpack manager that allows you to send just the changes to a modpack instead of the entire thing when you make an update. Kinda neat. The UI is terrible though.

Solder requires you to manually package each JAR file, in a specific structure, in a ZIP, place it on a web server via SFTP or FTP, then manually add it to your Solder instance. It is very time consuming.

So I did the "programmer thing" and spent 3 days making Solder Packer.