Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-36683454-20191216114516/@comment-69.242.54.218-20200119010006

I've always been (and still am) a supporter of this mod updating to 1.8. The idea that 1.8 adds nothing of value is a myth. It offered many stability and performance improvements that were highly valuable after 1.7. The problem is that these improvements resulted in significant changes to the code, which required a significantly greater amount of effort to update mods. Many mod makers (including Mevans) choose to forego further updates and stay in 1.8. This pretty much killed the mod community, and resulted in few mods updating until 1.9

The mod community has since returned, but make no mistake, just like minecraft as a whole, it's a vastly inferior community to it's predecessor.

I firmly believe that the decision of many mods to not update to 1.8 was a colossal mistake. Mods that stayed in 1.7 lost most of their potential exposure. Had the LotR mod updated to 1.8, it would've been vastly more popular. And probably be further along.

With all that in mind, it's too late. Minecraft isn't at 1.8 anymore, it's at 1.15, so if the mod team did decide to update, they'd go straight to 1.15

Imo, the modern version of minecraft (and the community attached to it) sucks. But ultimately, staying in 1.7 will only further shove this mod into irrelevancy. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place.