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+# Essential Loom
+
+A fork of [Architectury Loom](https://github.com/architectury/architectury-loom/), primarily to support legacy forge versions
+but with some other changes for our purposes. Used by [Essential Gradle Toolkit](https://github.com/EssentialGG/essential-gradle-toolkit/).
+
+Talk to us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/essential). Use the `#programmer-chat` channel for Essential Loom discussions.
+Issues can be reported on Discord or using GitHub issues.
+
+# Original Readme
+
+---
+
 # Architectury Loom
 
 Talk to us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/C2RdJDpRBP)!