Thanks for your response diesieben07. I misunderstood the level of complexity of the change, based on the previous comments. Unfortunately I upgraded my server from 1.7.4 to the (at the time) current version of 1.8.1 not realizing that forge was only 1.8. I incorrectly thought modifying forge to the next minor version (1.8.0 - 1.8.1) wouldn't be nearly as difficult as modifying to a major version (1.7 - 1.. Which caused me to assure my players that forge would be coming soon and to tough it out. This is why I was posing my previous question. Anyhow, why do you think there is such a lack of mods being developed for forge 1.8?