User blog comment:LOTRMod/Why hasn't the mod updated to 1.8 yet?/@comment-29212138-20161228191657/@comment-79.69.4.252-20170131173216

Some of the vanilla features are undoubtedly better (just look at the vanilla banner visuals+ armour stand visuals+more balanced combat system) But at the moment the only main reason to update is that horse lag was fixed in 1.9... Wait for the mod API mevans!