Thread:The Ranger Malvegil/@comment-25101089-20170401230736/@comment-25101089-20170405175243

SamwiseFilmore wrote: Hey Mevans, I assume that upgrading forge would mean that we all should load with 1614. I know another mod that is developing with 1614 and sometimes makes users upset because the game will not load with any other version. Could you possibly use 1558 instead? That is also a more stable version...

Yes, I updated to version 1558, since it's the 'Recommended' Forge version. Now, as it turned out, the problem was a very simple mistake I'd made in the code, because I didn't yet understand how it worked. It wasn't anything to do with the Forge version. But I've kept version 1558 because - why not? - it's better than version 1291 anyway. You can read the changelog here. I haven't really checked it much, but there are a great many bugfixes and other improvements.

I have also now introduced a strict dependency to the mod which means it must have Forge version 1558 or higher, else it will just fail to load. This isn't just for Forge improvements; some method names changed since 1291, and thus running the LOTR mod with version 1291 would now break some reflection and coremod features. A nice big error message displays if you try to run a lower Forge version, which I hope  will be more reliable than the huge red warning above the mod's download link. People have missed that before and had problems from running a wrong Forge version.