Stardust is a mod loader for galimulator. It is designed to be usable by the common plebian, at the cost of being complicated for mod devs.

The main philosophy of this application is that it isn't actually meant to load mods. Instead a "Particle" (just a fancy name for Stardust mods) is used that loads mods themselves.

As such Stardust has a really sparse modding API that is behaving on a low level. Mods are also loaded in an arbitrary order due to the extreme mini- malism present.

Unlike 1st generation mod loaders, the 2nd generation (and therefore Stardust too) exploits the config.json file in order to be loaded by the JVM and as such does not rely on the CLI. It furthermore downloads a Java 17 JDK in order to allow the usage of the vast quantities of features introduced in newer versions of java.

In order to run this mod loader, you'll want to edit the config.json file to something like

{
  "classPath": [
    "jar/galimulator-desktop.jar",
    "stardust-j8-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"
  ],
  "mainClass": "Stardust8",
  "vmArgs": [
    "-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=true"
  ]
}

Mods/particles are put in the "mods" folder (it may need to be created manually) that is within the galimulator directory.

As with every other galimulator mod loader that saw the light of day, OS compatibility is an issue as it was only debugged on a linux system. However unlike SLL, Stardust will outright not work under MacOS/OSX unless launched in very finicky ways. Windows compatibility is also questionable as it was not tested.