CustomSkinLoader

CustomSkinLoader

What's this?

CustomSkinLoader is a Minecraft mod that loads skins, capes, and elytra textures from online skin APIs or local files.

This branch is the Universal generation of MCCustomSkinLoader. It replaces the old edition-specific jars with one bootstrap artifact. The bootstrap jar prepares a runtime CustomSkinLoader-Common.jar, remaps it for the active Minecraft mapping namespace, and applies the required loader-specific class patches at runtime.

Supported Loaders
- Forge Legacy and Forge ModLauncher
- NeoForge
- Fabric
- Quilt-compatible Fabric Loader environments

Feature

Universal Runtime

One user-facing jar is used across supported loaders. The generated installable artifact is:

Common/build/libs/Common-.jar is the nested runtime payload and should not be installed directly.

Support Plenty of Skin Load APIs and Customizable Skin Load List

Supported skin loading APIs:
- MojangAPI
- CustomSkinAPI
- CustomSkinAPIPlus
- UniSkinAPI
- ElyByAPI
- Legacy

Supported special skin sites and profiles:
- Glitchless
- MinecraftCapes
- OptiFineCape
- Cloaks+
- Wynntils compatible profile support

You can customize the skin load list and load textures from any compatible skin server. Skin server owners can also use ExtraList files to help users add their server.

HD Skins and Capes Support

CustomSkinLoader can load and process HD skins and capes. OptiFine cape textures are converted to the standard cape format when needed.

Profile Cache
- Decreases repeated network requests.
- Allows cached profiles to load when the network is unavailable.

Local Skin

Load skins without a skin server. With the default Legacy paths, place textures under:

Extra List

Skin servers can provide ExtraList JSON files. Users can put them into .minecraft/CustomSkinLoader/ExtraList to add servers to the load list.

Transparent Texture Support

The render patches are designed to keep skin and cape transparency correct on supported versions.

Default Load List
- Mojang (MojangAPI)
- LittleSkin (CustomSkinAPI)
- BlessingSkin (CustomSkinAPI)
- ElyBy (ElyByAPI)
- TLauncher (ElyByAPI)
- Glitchless (ElyBy-compatible profile)
- LocalSkin (Legacy)
- MinecraftCapes
- OptiFineCape
- Cloaks+

If you want to add another skin server to the default list, please open an issue.

To Skin Server Owner

CustomSkinLoader is designed for loading textures from many server implementations. It is usually better to support one of CustomSkinLoader's APIs than to copy this mod's internal implementation. If you maintain a skin server, you can provide an ExtraList file or request inclusion in the default load list.

Copyright & LICENSE

Major Contributor
- 2013-2014 Jeremy Lam (JLChnToZ)
- 2014-2024 Alexander Xia (xfl03)
- 2020-2026 ZekerZhayard

Binary File

You may use and share the unmodified official binary in modpacks. When used in a modpack, CustomSkinLoader must be listed in the mod list. Do not repost the mod to other websites without permission.

Source Code

The source code is licensed under GPL-3.0-only. See LICENSE.

Package customskinloader includes code or ideas from:
- AsteriskTeam/TabIconHackForge (GPLv3)
- RecursiveG/UniSkinMod (GPLv3)
- NekoCaffeine/Alchemy (GPLv3)

If you redistribute a modified build, change the package name and clearly mark the build as modified to avoid confusion with official CustomSkinLoader releases.

ABOUT THIS LISTING

This page describes CustomSkinLoader by xfl03. The description and screenshots are the author's own, imported from their listing on Modrinth on 24 October 2026: https://modrinth.com/mod/customskinloader

Mythiq.net hosts no files for it. The download button goes straight to the release file on cdn.modrinth.com, so you are downloading from the author's own host, not from a copy of ours.

The download count, rating and comments on this page start at zero and count Mythiq.net only. The source's own figures are not copied here — they measure a different site, and a number that cannot be checked against our own ledger is not worth printing.

MOD LOADER

This release is built for Fabric, Forge, Neoforge and Quilt. A mod built for one loader will not load under another — Fabric mods do not run on Forge, and vice versa.

GAME VERSION

Built for Minecraft 26.3, 26.2, 26.1.2, 26.1.1, 26.1, 1.21.11. Minecraft mods are tied to an exact version: a 1.21.4 build will refuse to load on 1.21.5.

DEPENDENCIES

Check the author's listing for required libraries before you start the game — a missing dependency shows up as a crash on launch, not as a warning.

1. Install Fabric for the Minecraft version you play, if you have not already.

2. Download the .jar with the button on this page. Do not unzip it — a mod jar is installed as it is.

3. Put it in your mods folder:

Windows — %APPDATA%\.minecraft\mods

macOS — ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/mods

Linux — ~/.minecraft/mods

4. Launch the game with the Fabric profile selected.

ON A SERVER

Anything that changes world generation or gameplay has to be installed on the server as well as on every client. Client-side visual and interface mods do not.

UPDATING

Replace the old .jar rather than adding the new one beside it. Two versions of the same mod in the folder is a crash on launch.