it builds!

bootstrap/mod/neoforge/build.gradle.kts

@@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ application {
 }
 
 tasks {
+    // Cloud-NeoForge is currently providing cloud-core twice (once directly, once indirectly via modded-common)
+    distTar {
+        duplicatesStrategy = DuplicatesStrategy.EXCLUDE
+    }
+    distZip {
+        duplicatesStrategy = DuplicatesStrategy.EXCLUDE
+    }
+
     remapJar {
         archiveBaseName.set("Geyser-NeoForge")
     }

gradle/libs.versions.toml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ terminalconsoleappender = "1.2.0"
 folia = "1.19.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT"
 viaversion = "4.9.2"
 adapters = "1.11-SNAPSHOT"
-cloud = "2.0.0-beta.2"
+cloud = "2.0.0-beta.4"
 commodore = "2.2"
 bungeecord = "a7c6ede"
 velocity = "3.1.1"