diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index f37ac9c2a..8145a1792 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@ Modmenu: 1.16.22
 
 ### Plugin and Library versions
 
-Fabric loom: 1.1.+\
-Forge gradle (Using Architectury): 3.4-SNAPSHOT\
+Gradle: 8.5\
+Fabric loom: 1.4-SNAPSHOT\
+Architectury loom (Forge gradle replacement): 1.4-SNAPSHOT\
 Sponge vanilla gradle: 0.2.1-SNAPSHOT\
-Sponge mixin: 0.8.5\
 Java Preprocessor plugin: Manifold Preprocessor
 
 <br>
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index ca35855bc..349ec564a 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ plugins {
     // Manifold preprocessor
     id "systems.manifold.manifold-gradle-plugin" version "0.0.2-alpha"
 
-    // Provides mc libraries to core
+//    // Provides mc libraries to core
 //    id "org.spongepowered.gradle.vanilla" version '0.2.1-SNAPSHOT' apply false
 
     // Architectury is used here only as a replacement for forge's own loom
-    id "dev.architectury.loom" version "1.1.+" apply false
+    id "dev.architectury.loom" version "1.4-SNAPSHOT" apply false
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/fabric/build.gradle b/fabric/build.gradle
index 84c5e42ac..ee52d6df3 100644
--- a/fabric/build.gradle
+++ b/fabric/build.gradle
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id "fabric-loom" version "1.1.+"
+    id "fabric-loom" version "1.4-SNAPSHOT"
 }
 
 loom {
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ loom {
 remapJar {
     inputFile = shadowJar.archiveFile
     dependsOn shadowJar
-    classifier null
+//    classifier null
 }
 
 configurations {
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ processResources {
 runClient {
     dependsOn(copyCoreResources)
     dependsOn(copyCommonLoaderResources)
-    jvmArgs([ "-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow", minecraftMemoryJavaArg ])
+//    jvmArgs([ "-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow", minecraftMemoryJavaArg ])
     finalizedBy(deleteResources)
 }
 
diff --git a/forge/build.gradle b/forge/build.gradle
index 2a2753f91..0e34fa028 100644
--- a/forge/build.gradle
+++ b/forge/build.gradle
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
+    // Note: This is only needed for multi-loader projects
+    // The main architectury loom version is set at the start of the root build.gradle
     id "architectury-plugin" version "3.4-SNAPSHOT"
 }
 
@@ -18,6 +20,7 @@ architectury {
 //}
 
 loom {
+    silentMojangMappingsLicense() // Shut the licencing warning
     accessWidenerPath = project(":common").file("src/main/resources/${accessWidenerVersion}.distanthorizons.accesswidener")
 
     forge {
@@ -36,7 +39,7 @@ loom {
             setConfigName("Forge Client")
             ideConfigGenerated(true)
             runDir("../run")
-            vmArgs("-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow", minecraftMemoryJavaArg)
+//            vmArgs("-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow", minecraftMemoryJavaArg)
         }
         server {
             server()
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ loom {
 remapJar {
     inputFile = shadowJar.archiveFile
     dependsOn shadowJar
-    classifier null
+//    classifier null
 }
 
 
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index e708b1c02..d64cd4917 100644
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 9502e869d..e6aba2515 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-# TODO: Wait for forge to fix gradle 8 support, once it did change gradle to a newer version
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-all.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 1b6c78733..1aa94a426 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
@@ -80,13 +80,11 @@ do
     esac
 done
 
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-APP_NAME="Gradle"
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-
-# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -133,22 +131,29 @@ location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
     JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
 if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
     case $MAX_FD in  #(
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -193,11 +198,15 @@ if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     done
 fi
 
-# Collect all arguments for the java command;
-#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
-#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
@@ -205,6 +214,12 @@ set -- \
         org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
         "$@"
 
+# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
+if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
+then
+    die "xargs is not available"
+fi
+
 # Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
 #
 # With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index 107acd32c..93e3f59f1 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 @rem limitations under the License.
 @rem
 
-@if "%DEBUG%" == "" @echo off
+@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
 @rem
 @rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
-if "%DIRNAME%" == "" set DIRNAME=.
+if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
 
 set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
 %JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto execute
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
 
 echo.
 echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
@@ -75,13 +76,15 @@ set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
 
 :end
 @rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto mainEnd
+if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
 
 :fail
 rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
 rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
-if  not "" == "%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit 1
-exit /b 1
+set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
+if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
+if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
+exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
 
 :mainEnd
 if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index b1e6b43cb..7a873a6bb 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ pluginManagement {
         }
         mavenCentral()
         gradlePluginPortal()
+        
+        // Not needed, but useful for debugging gradle plugins
+        mavenLocal()
     }
 }