MC 1.7.10 is 2 years old, and 1.9 is almost around the corner. I say it's time we get to work on a 1.8 port. What do you guys think?

You do understand what that intails right?

I understand that it will be a lot of work, if that is what you mean. I just figured that I should get the ball rolling.

On Nov 27, 2015, at 9:20 PM, Geroge [email protected] wrote:

You do understand what that entails right?

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raising an issue on it isn't really getting the ball rolling, and its probably not happening.

So have you started on 1.8?
nope. changes in 1.8.8 look interesting, but I'm still not convinced it's worth to port instead of working on new features
I hear ya there
really, forge people did a great job on 1.8.8 (generics, renaming, etc), but it still has some technical problems. But 1.9 looks even better, based on stuff I hear from mojang guys
I have talked to Searge about 1.9. I am really excited

Interesting. I personally think we should move to 1.8 first, just because the modding community is generally quite slow with regards to upgrades. It would be a shame to be stuck on 1.7.10 for another year+. Anyway, not my decision to make.

The biggest issue is that model system, it was just shoved down our throats, that along side the entity model layer system (which, while arguably better for model management, really breaks more intricate mods), makes implementing 1.8 highly difficult. 90% of the conversion is practically equivalent to erasing and rewriting.

Does 1.9 change this again and/or make it much easier?

Just to clarify, when I was talking about "technical problems", I meant 1.8.8 only. 1.8 is mature and usable. Also, "technical problems" include stuff like "sometimes explodes", but not any of the architectural decisions.

I think models, removal of ISRBH, blockpos etc. are changes in right direction. but aligning to those changes require quite a lot of work, so I decided to delay it until some vanilla internals are more polished (1.9) and not frozen in middle of transitioning from notchcode to something more extendable. Though I might revise this decision, since 1.9 was delayed.