After learning some java i was ready to start modding Minecraft so i downloaded everything i needed and everything was going perfect until... i went to command prompt to run gradlew.bat setupDecompWorkspace--refresh-dependencies where i got this error.
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Download http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.7.2-10.12.0.1024/forge-1.7.2-10.12.0.1024-userdev.jar
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
The setupDecompWorkspace will only work with Java 7! This is fixed in ForgeGradle 1.2
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
I am currently using java8 and i understand the error came from there but do i really need to downgrade the java version? Or is there another way?