This would allow much more informative error logs when trying to use the kotlin adapter, as right now it just has a generic ClassDefNotFound if Forgelin is missing, rather than having the standard dependency screen people are used to.

I would change it, but there's some mod that shades Forgelin, and adding an @mod class would then break when the mod that's shading it and Forgelin itself were in the same instance.

Maybe that'd be a good way to convince that person to not shade it. :P

The only problem is, I don't remember who's doing the shading :P

I still say that someone else doing something wrong isn't a good reason to prevent yourself from doing something right

It's me and I'm not doing it

Alright, I'll try to change it soon.

1.3.0 now has an @Mod annotated object, and you should be able to use required-after:forgelin; in @Mod.dependencies. It's on my Maven repo and is currently pending approval on CurseForge.