Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25101089-20170524114315/@comment-28813058-20170524160149

I loved 1.8, personally, but I don't think there would be a whole lot of benefits in updating to it. This is a Mod, designed to add the world of Middle-earth to Minecraft, and it isn't affected much by the outside of Vanilla Minecraft. Many of the features in 1.8 would be unobtainable on servers where travel to the Overwolrd often isn't allowed. New doors that were added in 1.8 will be mimicked by those that you are planning to add soon with the addition of a coremod. The fact is, a 1.8 update would have some benefit, but I doubt it's worth the work, since a LOT LOT LOT of work would be needed to update, plus debugging and all that hullabaloo. And don't get me started on the next updates, 1.9 and 1.10. Those updates added random, disjointed stuff to Minecraft that didn't even really benefit the game. Minecraft was never meant to be a PvP game, but a building/exploration game. So, no, I don't think you should update.