Eclipse throwing Gradle errors when importing project

Question

I'm trying to produce a Minecraft mod for 1.12.2, but eclipse is throwing errors whenever I try to import the root folder of the 1.12.2 mdk. Here is the error

https://pastebin.com/twTSdmPu

I couldnt post pastebin link without code so here you go

Answer 1

It's likely that your Java version is too high, downgrade to Java version 8 (1.8) and configure your IDE to use Java 8 ( IntelliJ / Eclipse ).