Jar file comes up empty, console states that the file is invalid, so its ignoring it during load up

whatever. apparently expecting you dumpster fire programmers to actually do anything is on par with expecting any government official in any country to act like adults for longer than 5 minutes. I will just go back to Forge and use their tried and TRUE working system. Since apparently none of you can be trusted to actually support your own work

It's only been 2 hours since you filed the issue.

You didnt provide enough infomation, and you waited a matter of minutes before making a fuss. Github issues arent the normal way to get support, Discord or IRC is.