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 # Weave's Mod Template for Kotlin
 
 This repository shows how to setup a [Gradle](https://gradle.org) project with the [Weave Gradle plugin](https://github.com/Weave-MC/Weave-Gradle) to develop mods for Weave in Kotlin.
+This template uses Kotlin, if you want to use Java instead, check out the [Java Template](https://github.com/Weave-MC/ExampleMod).
 
 ## How to start?
 
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 ## How to build
 
+Building requires a JDK of version 17 or higher. A good JDK distribution can be downloaded from [Adoptium.net](https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases?version=17&os=any&arch=any), but any OpenJDK compatible JDK suffices.
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 To build a Weave mod, you can simply run:
 
 ```bash