My modpack kept crashing, i narrowed the problem down to architectury api. When installed it crashes before minecraft is even loaded, when removed it loads fine but lots of mods need it to work. please help

the error i get:
[08/01/2025 19:31:45 PM] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The requested compatibility level JAVA_18 could not be set. Level is not supported by the active JRE or ASM version (Java 17.0, ASM 9.7.1 (ASM10_EXPERIMENTAL))

One of your mods is requiring Java 18 and you're using Java 17. Try running with Java 18 or higher, and/or send a full crash log.

send a full crash log.

I use ATlauncher, when you say crash log, do you mean the console or something else?

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Try running with Java 18 or higher,

It looks like i'm using a version of java later than 18 but i dont' really understand these things.

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(I don't really know what i'm doing if thats not obvious)