Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25101089-20170524114315/@comment-45027249-20200210164728

The only reason I can think of to update to a newer version is because of other mods. Like a modpack with LOTR and Minecolonies would be epic, especially if someone made a addon which adds faction specific buildings and industries. Or the ancient warfare mod, which in the 1.12 version readded siege engines. But these are all features that at some point could be added to the LOTR mod. While upgrading would definitely attract more people and people who have left, it would hurt so many worlds that people have spent years on and halt development of the mod in any meaningful way for over a year. If there was a easy way to send over worlds to a newer version and you have an army of programmers to help to significant increase the progress to which it's possible to get an alpha out within a couple of months I would say do it, but it's just not the case.