As of 2025, the Minecraft community has largely moved to 1.20+ and 1.21+. The Meteor Client development team has also moved on, with their latest releases targeting 1.19.4, 1.20, and 1.21. So why does 1.16.5 still matter?
Meteor manipulates the client through – bytecode-level modifications to Minecraft’s original classes. This allows it to: