Should I Update to 1.7

[Mecblader]

Hello, I have three mod that are currently in heavy development for 1.6.4. I am looking for advise on weather or not I should up date to 1.7. My mods are very in depth and I have been reluctant to update to 1.7 because I have heard that a lot of the methods have no been named so it would be difficult to update. All feedback is appreciated. Thank You in advance!!!

[kebbanalex]

Well think like this. When 1.7.2 mods are comming out more of the community also move to 1.7 and when they move from 1.6 to .1.7 your mod is prepeared for 1.7 and no Delay Porting needed

[Glenn]

It's generally beneficial for all modders since we're forcing the userbase to finally update to a newer minecraft version. Supporting extremely old versions is just plain boring. Modding in Minecraft just gets better and better with each version.

[darty11]

A good number of the functions have been named by now, although a few of them have been renamed in a dumb fashion (like .seunlocolised name is .setblockname, but only when used with blocks, items stay the same), but the way minecraft has been changed can make it harder than the misnaming. for example, Items and blocks ids are gone, you can ONLY use the actual block or item object in any function that previously used an id. Another thing is the way blocks and items are referenced code wise. They are no longer stored in the Block and Item classes, but there are NEW classes that store all the blocks and items, named Blocks.java and Items.java.