I'm SOOO tired of mod development. 😒
TL;DR: Developing mods for tens of different Minecraft versions is a pain I literally can't bare anymore.
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So I just came back to the modding scene after some very necessary break time, and after spending \~2 days on the update itself and 4 more on JUST porting to Fabric/different MC versions...
...I remembered why I quit in the first place.
On my peak days I'd literally spend WEEKS just porting to Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and MC versions, starting from 1.18.2 all the way up to 1.21.1.
My last release batch, for instance, ended up having a total of 10 versions and 6 more on my extension mod.
16 versions!!
And don't even get me started on the absurdly painful task of uploading them to 2 different hosting services.
And the way I do my porting is like, I have 3 repos - one for Forge, Fabric and NeoForge separately, and after I finish a version, I do git compare from dev to master and then copy EACH. CHANGE. BY. HAND. 😭😭
These can literally span thousands, or even tens of thousands of lines.
Now I know that I'm a boomer for that and that there are much better solutions to all the above, like the multiloader solution or automatic uploading shenanigans.
But cutesy little 15-year-old-me literally did NOT know s@#$ about fabric itself at the time, let alone cross-loader coding etc.
And at the codebase's current state, I feel like it's much too late for that. And it seems like such an annoying chore that I honestly can't start to even bother with it.
I don't really know anymore. All this literally just drained all the fun I once had for making mods for this game.
The solution I came up with for now was to literally just drop support. I dropped support for everything below 1.20, and kept specific MC versions; for Forge only 1.20 + 1.20.1 and for Fabric only 1.20 + 1.20.1 and 1.21 + 1.21.1, dropping Neo altogether.
Anyways, in the bottom line, I'd like to ask: what versions in your opinion should be kept LTS nowadays? Is there any newly accepted LTS version like 1.20.1 (I hope) that I can just focus on? I feel so out of touch from modern Minecraft versioning that it's just spinning my head trying to think of what my mods should and should not support.
Should I still bother updating to modern Minecraft versions? Maybe only with Fabric..?
I also feel like there are absolutely no statistics online to help that either - I really only rely on my own downloads metrics and that of the Fabric API's.
Either way, ty'all for reading through all this jumble. ;-;
https://redd.it/1jxjqns
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TL;DR: Developing mods for tens of different Minecraft versions is a pain I literally can't bare anymore.
\---
So I just came back to the modding scene after some very necessary break time, and after spending \~2 days on the update itself and 4 more on JUST porting to Fabric/different MC versions...
...I remembered why I quit in the first place.
On my peak days I'd literally spend WEEKS just porting to Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and MC versions, starting from 1.18.2 all the way up to 1.21.1.
My last release batch, for instance, ended up having a total of 10 versions and 6 more on my extension mod.
16 versions!!
And don't even get me started on the absurdly painful task of uploading them to 2 different hosting services.
And the way I do my porting is like, I have 3 repos - one for Forge, Fabric and NeoForge separately, and after I finish a version, I do git compare from dev to master and then copy EACH. CHANGE. BY. HAND. 😭😭
These can literally span thousands, or even tens of thousands of lines.
Now I know that I'm a boomer for that and that there are much better solutions to all the above, like the multiloader solution or automatic uploading shenanigans.
But cutesy little 15-year-old-me literally did NOT know s@#$ about fabric itself at the time, let alone cross-loader coding etc.
And at the codebase's current state, I feel like it's much too late for that. And it seems like such an annoying chore that I honestly can't start to even bother with it.
I don't really know anymore. All this literally just drained all the fun I once had for making mods for this game.
The solution I came up with for now was to literally just drop support. I dropped support for everything below 1.20, and kept specific MC versions; for Forge only 1.20 + 1.20.1 and for Fabric only 1.20 + 1.20.1 and 1.21 + 1.21.1, dropping Neo altogether.
Anyways, in the bottom line, I'd like to ask: what versions in your opinion should be kept LTS nowadays? Is there any newly accepted LTS version like 1.20.1 (I hope) that I can just focus on? I feel so out of touch from modern Minecraft versioning that it's just spinning my head trying to think of what my mods should and should not support.
Should I still bother updating to modern Minecraft versions? Maybe only with Fabric..?
I also feel like there are absolutely no statistics online to help that either - I really only rely on my own downloads metrics and that of the Fabric API's.
Either way, ty'all for reading through all this jumble. ;-;
https://redd.it/1jxjqns
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people focus too much on the spellcasting and not automation potential, it may not have simple utilities like ore dupe or pipes but spell turrets and chalk runes alone can do so much, not to mention the rituals and summons. it works well with blood magic in 1.20 and occultism+theurgy in 1.21
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Skill Tree for our upcoming Rise of Herobrine map-based modded RPG.
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Which mod adds these really OP dungeon tower thingies? They spawn with crazy good loot like Netherite and Diamond blocks and are way too easy to raid, ruining my progression.
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What are some mods that i can use to recreate this in java? Especially textures and the shaders?
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"what mod is causing this" posts should be banned
These posts that are always extremely low effort and often revolve around the op thinking anyone reading their post is clairvoyant.
They rarely post the modlist and when they do it's a blurry photo from their phone.
The solution 99% of the time is to simply look at the mods YOU installed and figure out what's causing what. It's usually obvious.
There are many other flavours of this type of post such as "Why does my custom modpack with 9000 mods installed crash" with no crashlog and a modlist comprised of conflicting mods, optifine, mcreator and sinytra connector.
You can't fix stupid. But you can ban it so we don't have to see it every day.
There are plenty of resources and tutorials online to learn how to properly make Minecraft modpacks and mods but the people who create these types of posts want a quick solution and very rarely take the time to research anything. They don't even Google. They just ask over and over and expect someone else to fix or solve their problems.
These people demand responses and clog up the subreddit. I think this genre of post should be banned because they add nothing of value and are extremely low effort.
Thoughts?
https://redd.it/1jxrgwc
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These posts that are always extremely low effort and often revolve around the op thinking anyone reading their post is clairvoyant.
They rarely post the modlist and when they do it's a blurry photo from their phone.
The solution 99% of the time is to simply look at the mods YOU installed and figure out what's causing what. It's usually obvious.
There are many other flavours of this type of post such as "Why does my custom modpack with 9000 mods installed crash" with no crashlog and a modlist comprised of conflicting mods, optifine, mcreator and sinytra connector.
You can't fix stupid. But you can ban it so we don't have to see it every day.
There are plenty of resources and tutorials online to learn how to properly make Minecraft modpacks and mods but the people who create these types of posts want a quick solution and very rarely take the time to research anything. They don't even Google. They just ask over and over and expect someone else to fix or solve their problems.
These people demand responses and clog up the subreddit. I think this genre of post should be banned because they add nothing of value and are extremely low effort.
Thoughts?
https://redd.it/1jxrgwc
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I had a dream where the Immersive Engineering blast furnace multiblock got changed for consistency reasons, that's how you made it :
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Im working on a mod/datapack for Lost cities that makes the cities so much better
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From the feedthebeast community on Reddit: Im working on a mod/datapack for Lost cities that makes the cities so much better
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