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The non-dexed JAR should not be uploaded to releases, as the dexed version works for both platforms. The file size difference is tiny, and there's no reason to upload two different versions.

The main reason I care about this is that it will break mod importing from the client - with two jars to pick from, it's not clear which is the correct one, and there's no reason to have two in the first place.

Proposed soution: Remove this block, and remove the "dexed-" jar prefix from the other artifact.

This template sets d8's min-api to be 26, which is significantly higher than Mindustry's minimum API level (14). Roughly 25% of Android phones have an API level below 26, meaning that jar mods produced with this template will not work on 25% of devices - upon import, a cryptic "unknown dex version" error will be shown in the stack trace. Here's an issue directly caused by this.

Yes, d8 complains about missing classes at API <26, but that's only because no dependencies are provided. Class files cannot be desugared correctly without these.

A solution to this problem can be seen in BetaMindy's gradle script.