MiSt Rocky

Thanks for the suggestions, I have been trying to find people who still do 1.7 or 1.8 modding, and haven't had much luck yet. I will try GTNH Devs next, I guess, and the Hypixel community (many mods for hypixel are 1.8)

I tried planet minecraft and it wasn't helpful, but have currently posted the question on the gamedev stackexchange, hopefully that will work.

OK, thanks! Is there an outdated versions forum or does forge not have anything like that?

So I have recently been working on a 1.8.9 forge mod, just to play around and see what there is (eventually I am planning on making a utilities mod with versions for 1.8-1.19, which is why I'm so far back). I have had no problems... until I got to configs. I already have code to create and read from a config file, but I can not figure out how to use Forge's mod options > config menu to allow GUI modification of the settings. I have had no luck finding any information on how to do this back in 1.8, so if anyone could help me out a bit (linking sources, giving example code, or referring me to a forge class that has the relevant code in it), I would greatly appreciate it. My current config code (in the Main class): public static Configuration config; private File confDir; public static Logger lmao; public static Configuration getConfig() { return config; } @EventHandler public void preinit(FMLPreInitializationEvent event) { lmao = event.getModLog(); confDir = event.getModConfigurationDirectory(); config = null; File configFile = new File(confDir,"config.cfg"); config = new Configuration(configFile); syncConfig(true); event.getModLog().log(Level.ALL,"Preinitialization complete."); } private static void syncConfig(boolean load) { List<String> propOrder = new ArrayList<String>(); if (!config.isChild) { if (load) { config.load(); } Property enableGlobalCfg = config.get(CATEGORY_GENERAL, "enableGlobalConfig", false).setShowInGui(false); if (enableGlobalCfg.getBoolean(false)) { Configuration.enableGlobalConfig(); } } Property prop; //set prop value, then: //propOrder.add(prop.getName()); prop = config.get(CATEGORY_GENERAL,"testbool",false); prop.comment = "for testing purposes"; prop.setLanguageKey("mod.conf.testbool"); propOrder.add(prop.getName()); prop = reConf.get(CATEGORY_GENERAL,"testvar","can you see this?"); prop.comment = "for testing purposes only"; prop.setLanguageKey("mod.conf.teststring"); propOrder.add(prop.getName()); config.setCategoryPropertyOrder(CATEGORY_GENERAL, propOrder); if (config.hasChanged()) { config.save(); } } public static void syncConf(boolean load1) { //public configuration sync method syncConfig(load1); } @SubscribeEvent public void onConfigChangedEvent(OnConfigChangedEvent event) { if (event.modID.equals(MODID)) { if (Configuration.CATEGORY_GENERAL.equals(event.configID)) { syncConfig(false); } } } //much of this was taken from or inspired by forge's source code, and adapted to work with this mod. If anyone can help, please do. If this post is breaking a forum rule, DEFINITELY tell me, since I need to know. Thanks ahead of time, -MiSt_Rocky

Last time I was modding in 1.18 I just had to add \u00a7 and the color code to my string. Example: "\u00a7eHello, world!" should display as yellow. (This assumes you are inputting the item name as a string) Someone correct me if this doesn't work, or has a better answer.