What's the work that the Forge Team do?

[American2050]

Simple question, may sound stupid, but for someone like me, that really doesn't understand all the "Infrastructure" behind Forge.

 

What's the work that the Forge Team "does / have to do" each time a new version of Minecraft comes out.

 

PS: Also, what or how someone with not much knowledge, could help to the project.

 

Sorry to ask this that may be obvious to a lot of people, but I guess it's a good chance for a lot of us to know and understand and at the same time appreciate better the work that Forge Team does.

[Infinium]

I doubt I know everything that is involved but:

 

- Forge needs to call the right methods in the game code, which is obfuscated so the names change with each version

- Implementing ways to use new features in a safe way

- Add Minecraft blocks/items to the oredictionary

- "fix" some broken stuff in Minecraft