# Install tiny-remapper with Homebrew

Tiny, efficient tool for remapping JAR files using "Tiny"-format mappings. Version 0.14.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-29.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:tiny-remapper
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tiny-remapper
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:tiny-remapper
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tiny-remapper>
- **Version:** 0.14.0
- **Source summary:** Tiny, efficient tool for remapping JAR files using "Tiny"-format mappings
- **Homepage:** <https://fabricmc.net/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/FabricMC/tiny-remapper>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/FabricMC/tiny-remapper#readme>
- **License:** LGPL-3.0-only
- **Source archive:** <https://maven.fabricmc.net/net/fabricmc/tiny-remapper/0.14.0/tiny-remapper-0.14.0-fat.jar>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-29T11:47:06Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- tiny-remapper (cli)
- tiny-remapper (alias)

## Dependencies

- openjdk

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 0.14.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-29
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://fabricmc.net/
- info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Project history and usage

tiny-remapper is a FabricMC Java tool for remapping JAR files with Tiny-format mappings. It is a niche but important Minecraft/Fabric build-chain utility rather than a general developer tool.

### Project history

The official README describes tiny-remapper as a tiny, efficient tool for remapping JAR files using Tiny-format mappings, with original code provided by Player. Its public GitHub repository has no GitHub releases published, so most of the version history is visible through Fabric's Maven repository rather than release notes.

Fabric's Maven repository shows tiny-remapper artifacts at least as early as the 0.1.0.x line in October 2018 and current artifacts such as 0.13.x in 2026. That fits its role as a library/tool shipped as part of the Fabric toolchain.

### Adoption history

Fabric's wiki documents tiny-remapper as both a command-line tool and programmable interface. It says Loom uses Tiny Remapper for multiple tasks and Fabric Loader uses it to remap Minecraft code to intermediary names.

The supplied package-manager facts show only Homebrew packaging in this batch, which matches the niche: most users receive tiny-remapper as a Maven dependency through Fabric tooling, while the Homebrew formula exposes it as a standalone CLI for packagers and modding-toolchain users.

### How it is used

tiny-remapper is used to transform compiled Java bytecode between mapping namespaces, especially in the Fabric Minecraft ecosystem. Official Fabric docs describe Loom converting Yarn-named mod binaries to intermediary-named usable mod binaries and Fabric Loader converting obfuscated vanilla Minecraft to intermediary.

Its package-nerd use case is debugging or scripting remaps outside Gradle/Loom, inspecting mapping artifacts, and having a reproducible CLI wrapper around a normally embedded Java library.

### Why package nerds care

tiny-remapper is significant less because of broad adoption and more because it exposes a hidden build-system primitive as a package. It is the kind of tool that package databases surface when a dependency-heavy ecosystem grows a command-line edge.

It also marks the Fabric ecosystem's preference for explicit mapping formats and reusable tooling, which matters to maintainers packaging Minecraft mod development stacks.

### Timeline

- 2018: Fabric Maven lists early 0.1.0.x tiny-remapper artifacts in October.
- 2019: Fabric's November status update says Tiny-Remapper learned to apply names with the Tiny V2 mapping format work.
- 2023: Fabric Maven lists tiny-remapper 0.8.10 artifacts.
- 2026: Fabric Maven lists tiny-remapper 0.13.x artifacts.

### Related projects

- Fabric Loom uses Tiny Remapper in the Fabric build pipeline.
- Fabric Loader uses Tiny Remapper to remap Minecraft code to intermediary.
- Yarn, Intermediary, Mapping IO, and Tiny mapping formats are adjacent Fabric mapping projects.

### Sources

- <https://fabricmc.net/: Fabric project listing includes Tiny Remapper.>
- <https://github.com/FabricMC/tiny-remapper README: project description and original-code note.>
- <https://maven.fabricmc.net/net/fabricmc/tiny-remapper/: artifact chronology.>
- <https://wiki.fabricmc.net/tutorial:mappings and https://wiki.fabricmc.net/documentation:build_pipelines: Fabric toolchain usage.>
- source_facts.package-manager: Homebrew-only package availability in this batch.


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** tiny-remapper
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/tiny-remapper.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/tiny-remapper.yml)


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