Pulled straight from git repo as of SHA1 e8036a5. I am getting problems compiling with my gradle version (6.0.1). See the --debug output here.

This is common when compiling mods with a newer gradle version in my experience. Using the Gradle Wrapper utility for installing a local gradle instance at the version number expected by the project, works fine as a workaround. But I can't do this because there is no gradlew.

Hello. You can download directly from mdk https://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/index_1.15.1.html

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@Snowee So you can't add the gradlew to the repo? I just thought it was standard to include it. Is there some reason not to?

Edit: The recommended way I've seen is to run gradle wrapper to build the wrapper from the known good working environment. Seems like it should be trivial to add.

Because I did not use a wrapper when I develop LightingWand for 1.14

I don't understand why that should preclude its inclusion in the repository, though. I guess it's just a minimalism thing for you?

I will include them in my future repos, thanks for your advice

Welcome! ^_^