User blog comment:LOTRMod/Why hasn't the mod updated to 1.8 yet?/@comment-27912807-20170428095722

I don't get why people want it for 1.8+ so baldy, think about it, most servers forbid you to go to the overworld, so that means like 99% of the new features are unuseable for you, only concrete blocks would be avaiable, and shields, well, that's worth the coding, and considering the better skin custimisation, just add more playermodels, or maybe install a different mod for it, or mybe it could be done by Mevans himself, but I doubt skincustimisation would be possible.